RTO is what it is, no changing that. But I was far more productive when I didn't have to go in 3 days a week. At home, I could roll out of bed and go into my office and start working. No time wasted getting ready or driving into the office. I didn't have to set up my workspace each morning and take it all down each night. Before RTO, I would regularly work 12 hours a day because my computer was right there. I could easily just sit down at night a work a few hours. Good for the company although bad for my health. Now, once my computer hits my bag at night, it almost never comes out until I go back to the office the next morning, even if I know I should be working. It's a hassle setting up and tearing down each night so the work just waits until tomorrow. Sorry Wells.
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My most recent day in office I was sitting alone in a cube farm. Talked to my peers via Teams. Thought it was the d-mbest use of resources ever.
If anything there are less people coming into the location I am in since RTO started. Every week even the half dozen or so “regulars” are coming in fewer days. I mean why bother coming in when you’re in the minority while everyone else stays working from home?
Exactly right. It's painfully obvious now that those lower pay ranges before for remote workers were nothing but a sham excuse to under pay people. Remote workers should be paid more, since they aren't using office space, power, water, etc. and are much less to likely to cost the company money via HR drama, crime, se-ual harassment, etc.
RTO never has been, and never will be, about collaboration or improving performance or saving money. It's designed, from the get go, to tank morale and torment people enough that they voluntarily leave the company. It's about control and demoralizing career workers so they can more easily be replaced. That's it. Thankfully, the twerp is NYC is a temp worker and I can outlast him.
They hired me as a full time telecommuter, at a lower salary because "the savings benefit of telecommuting is the equivalent of thousands of dollars of annual salary".
Now they take that away...? Are they going to bump my pay up the "equivalent" amount...?
And they wonder why good people are fleeing this company. smh
Agreed. It’s a lot less efficient going to the office, but I am and am getting less done due to the travel time, set up time and the time it takes to get ready…oh and the interruptions from people that stop by the office just to chit chat. No collaboration since my team is scattered by design. I’m exempt, but not their slave! I give 100% while at work, but draw the line at working 15 hours because they arbitrarily demand RTO!
Write an email to Charlie and let him know.
There's nothing fine about RTO, at least not how it's being implemented. Most people that are herding back into the office shouldn't be. No one to collaborate with, so it's a waste of resources.
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...and obeying the commands of their political masters.
It has been acknowledged multiple times in the Town Halls that employee productivity was up WFH. Now there is a 'panic' about good people leaving and the resulting errors due to these failed implementations (DEI, RTO, etc).
When I joined WF I was told as long as I do good work, I can work from home as often as I'd like, besides big in-person meetings about once per month. So now that I can't work from home... do I still have to do good work? :)
I still struggle with the fact that employees who live in more remote areas get to continue working remotely. Yet the rest of us are penalized and have to spend hours commuting in each week. There are many unfair exceptions out there.
The battle against RTO won't end until the policy does. CEOs are temp workers, they'll be gone soon enough. At some point, sanity will prevail and I will go back to being remote like I was always supposed to be for my role.
It's kind of all about having a stake in commercial property values and doing what you can to prop up demand.
RTO has been an abject failure. It has driven uncomfortable attrition levels, out continues to drive "just the minimum" mentality, etc.
The people that occupy the exec positions at the top are geriatric thinkers. It's embarrassing.
RTO is so bad for morale. This company has no culture anymore and nobody is proud to say they work for WF. What a shame.
actually, as a salaried employee you get paid to get the job done, whether it takes you 8, 4,.or 12 hours.
You are paid for 8 hours. Give them 8 and take care of number 1 - you.
Work to live, don't live to work.
Sounds like you have a better work/life balance now due to the changes. You should be thanking WF. Working a lot of extra hours also hides inefficiencies in process by simply brute forcing hours to overcome it. Let the inefficiencies show themselves so they can be corrected.
The less productive you are the more they can justify terminating the position. Its all about the plan
Your comment is absolutely correct. I also don’t appreciate RTO but I am working less and feel healthier.