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It increases commute time & stress. Period...
It raises costs for emplyees...
It can reduce worklife balance.
It limits access to wider talent pools.
It hurts productivity for focused work.
It creates unnecessary office overhead.
It can lower employee satisfaction.
It makes caregiving harder.
It can increase burnout risk.
It is not improving collaboration.
@ad people have elderly relatives or children that need care. Sometimes being able to work from home is the difference between keeping them at home and comfortable or placing them in a facility. People literally rely on their income from their job to keep these family members afloat. Just because you haven't lived it doesn't mean it's not a vital piece of someone's dignity and quality of life. It's really not that hard to not be a sh---y person.
The collaboration thing is bs. We hired a person and they get to work out of a hub closer to them even though the job listing wasn’t for that hub. So now they are by themselves and I am by myself lol
Office is for collaboration and winning. Home is foe family matters and the View. Meet me at the water cooler soon. I am buying
With gas prices hovering around $7 and car insurance premuims doubled, a 50% raise in Tolls, you are 100% right. Wasting 2-3 hours a day in traffic—when you could be delivering high-value, productive work instead—no longer makes financial or professional sense.
It is deeply frustrating to navigate a demanding, long-distance Return to Office (RTO) mandate while balancing personal caregiving responsibilities, especially when that burden is not shared by the executive team.
The Reality of RTO Disparity
1) Executive Perks vs. Employee Costs: While executives often have commuting costs (limos, premium transport) covered as business expenses, or when making multiples of seven figure executive pay, it does not matter to them vs. 60,000+ average employees face $3000-$4000 in annual fuel, vehicle maintenance, and parking costs.
2) The Caregiver Burden: RTO policies disproportionately impact employees with young children, creating immense pressure on work-life balance that senior leadership—whose families are often grown or graduated from university—frequently fail to recognize the impact on 60,000+ families (U.S.Bank average employee age is 35).
3) Retention: Research indicates that 80% of companies that enforced strict RTO mandates experienced talent loss, with high-skilled, senior-level staff, and women being the most likely to leave.
Lost me at caregiver....sorry
It seems to be a relationship problem between you and your family or roommates