Several long time employees were FIRED last week for not returning to the office despite manager approval. Fired, no severance, gone after high performance and decades of service. Nothing descent matters to these people.
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@a6 It's a decent case. Full disclosure I don't like the following line of thinking.
They may not want to lose that office all at once. Because if my lease is still for a few months, and I'm still paying for a now empty office building, that's not ideal either. Among potentially wanting to verify it's "safe" to be cut. Then add them to lists for later.
If you don't have a medical/HR accommodation you gotta be careful going forward. They can do enough layoffs every now and then to avoid triggering WARN or country alternatives. Or they can start to scrutinize 'for cause' firings and also get around those. That may not stop at coffee badging.
If you turn out right though, they may need to create a snowball effect to justify more and more (ie 2-6 in office hour ratios, then 4-4, and then 8-0 or gotta go) ts.
Well if they didn't RTO in any shape or form then what do these people expect
In the case I am aware of, the firings of managers was performed by a director that also did not RTO, and implicitly allowed the coffee badging that was rampant and nearly universal among the underlings. Everyone in the office below this director was coffee badging, and they were aware, and also doing it.
If the policy was equally applied, the entire office would be gone. This confirms that RTO is simply an excuse to reduce headcount without severance.