Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

When I comply, I do it in a leather jacket.

Remember the badge reader when the mandate comes.

They'll know if you comply.

"more in-office time may be encouraged"

Gosh, what does this involve? Whatever could it mean?

Except the salaried employees she talked to who like being in the office are all VPs.

From the Free:
Barra said she has had positive feedback from some salaried employees that support being in the office and she hinted that more in-office time may be encouraged.

"With our voluntary separation program we just did, we’ll see where that leaves the company," Barra said. "That will give us a better opportunity to see where we’re at and we’ll continue to message.”

Your RTO experience is a good example of why productivity is down.

I get absolutely nothing done while I'm in the office.
We didn't have back-to-back meetings every day before the flu scare. And beyond that, my workload more than doubled.
Before the Fauci Flu, I could get a lot of work done between meetings.
Now when I'm in the office, the noise is too big of a distraction when I do have time to work, and difficult to concentrate in when I'm in a meeting. It's a disaster TBH.
On my WFH days, I struggle to catch up. In the end, I'm far less productive and TBH, a little fatigued. Fatigue makes me not want to do anything FWIW.
Seeing how we are headed into a financial collapse, I have to remind myself that none of these things really matter. These are probably "the good days" that we will all look back on fondly.

Employers pay employees just enough not to quit, and employees work just hard enough not to get fired. The odd exception to this was WFH, where people actually put in more time from the comfort of their own desk.

All management will do is self sabotage their results with RTO. The proof will be in the results, and employees will despise, the return. Employees don't even need to work hard enough to keep their job these days, because every business still can't find people with heartbeats - and I don't mean the enlarged heart kind.

Push the return to office bullsh*t, and we'll find a way to sever the commute time and more, from productive corporate results.

The takeaway is that most of you reading this are lobsters and SLT has a big bowl of butter and a shell cr--ker.

When you're cooking lobster, lobsters that try to escape the boiling water are pulled back in by the other lobsters.

Where I;m at (non GM) we started a hybrid work schedule because some higher ups where whining to the ceo that since THEY had to still be in the office, then why can't everyone else be there as well?

RTO troll; on to the next thread

"Why would anybody shill mandatory RTO."

Who's shilling RTO? People are being pragmatic. The writing is on the wall and your "flexibility" is laughable at the first sign of a flat/negative quarter. Many of us have seen this movie before. If you think conditions are bad now, you haven't seen anything. WFH will be fantasy-land very soon. Research auto loan defaults, auto repossessions, bankruptcy rates, consumer debt, etc. If it doesn't change your perspective, IDK what to say. Good luck? Bless your heart?

Why would anybody shill mandatory RTO. It's like saying, "I would like less flexibility."

you make more at GM but your life is better at McDs...hard choice.

Disagree with leverage, you can leave if you are qualified and find another job no one is holding a g-n to anyones head.

"The WFH Genie has been let out of the bottle and there is no putting it back."

We've beat this to death and apparently you haven't been comprehending the trend.
The WFH Genie was beaten, rolled up and put back in the bottle wet.
Corporations around the country are mandating a return to the office.
GM has already done it, they just haven't enforced it yet. But that will change during your quarterly review. You know what they say? FAFO
Good news though: I hear they are hiring at McDonalds for $20/hour.

Lame repost.
You will be made to return to the office full time if it is decided by the people who sign your check - or lose your job. You literally have zero leverage. Complain, complain, complain.