Returning to the office, from my perspective as an employee, is a welcomed change. It means reuniting with my colleagues, which I've missed during remote work. Those face-to-face interactions can't be replaced, fostering a stronger sense of camaraderie and teamwork. Having a designated workspace at the office helps me concentrate better, reducing the distractions of home. It's also an opportunity for spontaneous discussions and quicker problem-solving. I'm looking forward to the chance to grow professionally through mentorship and networking. Plus, the office allows me to create a clear separation between work and personal life, ensuring a healthier work-life balance.
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I do the same. I go in Monday through Wednesday. I leave my laptop and COU cellphone at the desk both nights. Don’t look for me after 4.
The best part of RTO is that I leave my laptop at work many nights and work less since I have no access to their decrepit systems when I get home.
Wow, I'd be mad as h3ll too if they made me RTO and actually work.
what a fu--ing troll. if you were a real fu--ing person, you would've been back months ago. ok, let's stop please giving any weight to these d-mb fu----s.
Also, dummy, you don't have a designated workspace in the office. First come, first serve and you get your a-s in early or your sitting in the cafeteria or in the bathroom.
Designated workspace ... wtf.
WTF, jerkface. Most of us have been back since July. Go F yourself with your "looking forward to ..."
If you're so looking forward to all that bullsh-t, why the fu-k didn't you start back in July like the rest of us?
Go fu-k yourself.
:The RTO date has come and gone for anyone I work with, so I don't know anybody still sitting at home. My hub teammates had to RTO in July and the rest of us RTO right after Labor Day."
I know some with a November RTO date
It must be hard to see when you have you head shoved up somewhere the sun doesn’t shine. Give a reach around while you’re down there.
I rather WFH and take care of my personal business on company time. Sleep in, Costco run, work on the house.
This is hysterical and must have been posted by some corporate yes person. My experience of return to work is a bunch of people going in to have coffee and gossip instead of real work. If you cannot work anywhere and still connect with people that is a you problem. Being face to face is more of a distraction as well as all the noise sitting in an office trying to work with Karen’s getting into your business. Maybe your post will get you a nice bonus, I hear those are going around lol
WOW, I hope this is all satire because the OP sounds like a total kiss-a$$ loser that always brown nosed the teacher and had to sit in the front row in grammar school!
Stfu #boomer
OP can be funny if you add a sarcasm tag to it.
Everyone I know is still at home. Some do come in (very few) but only 3 days a week. The rest are 3 days a month. Only the union folks are RTO 5 days a week. I am not in Dallas or Atlanta.
I went in today but since nobody uses the reservation system there were no seats so I just went home. This isn't RTO, it's RT-some arbitrary office we're overloading 150%. It's bull poopy.
You can tell this was a paid troll or bot since everyone has already RTO’d. Very few enjoy being in the office, especially under the current structure of no assigned desks, no f2f meetings because everyone is still spread out or are offshore. There is no collaboration. Total waste of time to sit in an office on teams calls all day and speak with NO ONE and I’m in a main hub. Waste of 3 hours per day commute, plus gas, plus extra getting ready just to sit at a desk in an office building with cr-ppy equipment. I could do my job better from home.
The RTO date has come and gone for anyone I work with, so I don't know anybody still sitting at home. My hub teammates had to RTO in July and the rest of us RTO right after Labor Day.
Lovin it, this will give me a chance to get rid of my sweat pants and sweatshirt. I want to get back to wearing my dad jeans with depends in the office. My female coworkers are gonna get a real treat!
When I go in, I sign out an office with a door. I close it and don’t speak to another person all day. That’s how I prefer it.
Youre looking forward to it? You should be there already at least three days a week.
So troll post. Got it.
OP: How many glasses of kool-aid have you had today?
Answer: Too many!
what happened "John", I thought the stock was going up?
just here for the ratio
You all know that it's the same, pathetic, sad, loser that does all of these contrarian posts right? The same smelly obese guy that does this over and over again, because he gets some kind of a perverse thrill on getting a reaction from you.
Ignore him.
Stinky has hopped on this board?
The key phrase from the OP is “designated work space”. If designated means any available space on the 2nd floor, then I disagree. If you want me in the office then I deserve a permanent space from which to work.
If the Stink only knew that all the "Water Cooler" talk is about how much Stink S U C K S monkeyballs and he is the biggest P O S CEO in the US.
For me some of those points are valid. I do miss the days when our entire group would meet at HQ, usually once per year, for a week of togetherness. It was valuable for bonding and making friends.
That went away over a decade ago, and since then I have taken pains to establish personal rapport with the far-flung people I work with in my group. (And they would remain far-flung had I chosen to "follow the work", as only one or two regular contacts work in the hub I had been assigned to. Others are in India—are those colleagues coming to an American hub for "collaboration"? You know the answer.)
I'd like to work less (and soon I will be, thanks to RTO!), but the fact is the work needs to be done, 80% of the people in the meetings I attend couldn't do it, so I make up their slack and enjoy Connection Awards and a nice salary. Sure, you might see me at the wholesale club one afternoon, but I'm also pretty sure I won't see 𝒚𝙤𝒖 working at 10 pm.
If an employee is distracted at home, that's the employee's problem. I get more done off hours because i'm not constantly interrupted by Teams messages, and I could only imagine that would be worse sitting in a noisy open office. If an employee needs an office environment to feel productive, by all means follow the work there. For those of us who matured past that need, we will be moving on.
And "matured" is the key word here. RTO isn't about productivity, but rather pushing out expensive senior talent, many of whom are carrying pensions. These employees could claim age discrimination had the work "not moved to a hub." What moved wasn't the work. What moved was the financial landscape of real estate towers and towering debt. And who better to address that than the very guys who got us into this mess?
Well said, OP!
There is a lot of truth to this. Unfortunately the company made teams that are fractured all over the country. I guess that’s why they want us all in Dallas together.
Oh wow! What a wonderful reading! Stuck to the script word for word! Good job!!
I find that hilarious, especially to see executives talk about the value of the "water cooler talk" and how valuable it is. Even though I was a "management" employee, the atmosphere was always "stay busy, track your time in the ticketing system" ...
Speak for yourself. You have no idea about the rest of us.
what a load of horse pucky, i'm looking forward to severance
wow... what a load of cr-p.
LOL,OP is such an obvious corporate troll. This reads like a paid review on Amazon. Nobody, not even Stankey actually feels this way.
IF this is the case, why didn't you go into the office before RTO? Nobody forced you to stay home.