People who keep commenting that we all worked from the office once and that we shouldn't be whining because it was considered normal before are missing the whole point. Yes, we all commuted and worked from the office. Then we started working remotely and realized how much better it was for everything: for us and our time, for our and the company's productivity, and even for the planet. Now, the leadership wants to go back when everybody knows there's a much better way and are moving forward. Imagine if I told you that you have to wash all your laundry on hand because "that's how they used to do it and it was considered normal" despite the existence of washing machines? You'd consider me crazy, right? Where's the difference with this?
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People that say "you worked in the office prior to 2020" as though it's a valid argument are just being purposely obstinate. It doesn't matter whether I didn't work from home at a time in the past. It wouldn't matter if I was hired a week ago instead of years ago. Working from home is more convenient, it is cheaper, and it is just as effective by virtually every metric. This bullsh-t is always paired with dishonest complaining about slackers, as though we have not been using productivity measurements that could be accessed at any moment these past years, with no complaints up until now. The fact is this has absolutely no benefit to any of us because none of us were ever asked about it in the first place. We all had it dropped on our heads at the same time.
Well, by working from home and people moving to small towns in lieu of city life, aren't we going back to the way things were? Before the industrial revolution. Schwab tried this cr-p two years ago and lost a lot of talent so backtracked and that was when they said WFH forever! And gave a 5% increase across the board. Wonder if this is the same thing? Even if it is, this cr-p is getting old.
It's people like Simon who are responsible for Schwab's decent. Old, stale, boomers who are past their prime and keep this company from realizing it's potential