Anyone refusing to RTO?

I'm supposed to be in office one day a week, after working 2 years fully remote. None of my team is there, despite the reason for returning being "collaboration". What a joke. I wish everyone in this company would refuse to RTO. They gonna fire all of us? Not that I would really care TBH. Feels like a slap in the face to make us return to office after cutting 401k contributions by 2%, especially with no raises amongst heavy inflation. Not eligible for a bonus.

Anyone else refusing to go in? I don't think I'm gonna go. I'm doing my job. No sense in wasting an hour of my day to drive in terrible traffic to sit in an empty office where none of my teammates are for some BS reason. I'm more efficient at home anyways.

Who's with me?

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“Hate that you don’t have that”. We can manage just fine without living your best life chief. Thanks.

I’ll be the one to actually say I’m glad to be in the office and out the house. I haven’t worked in the same physical location with anyone in my direct team in years, but the folks I do work and sit near are like family. I hate that so many of you don’t have that. We have a beautiful and clean new office building. The people that refuse to go back to work are going to give those that do want to an opportunity for the new buildings to close and force even further commutes if we have to continue downsizing. They’re not going to let us just not go into the office because some/many want to be remote. It just won’t happen, so the sooner we can just readjust to how life was before the pandemic, we can all move forward. ✌🏼

Bottom line is that they are embarrassed that they didn’t renegotiate their leases.

Only one day a week? I wish we could go back to that!

You ain’t making it to AVP sitting on your couch

Gnome Sane?

Don't give them an excuse to fire you if a RIF package is possible.

RTO is management theater with the added bonus of encouraging attrition. It fixes so many glitches.

Grow up! Before this ridiculous plandemic, you were working in office. Get over it.

"Better together" with less pay, less retirement, less health benefits.

I love the PR reason for RTO being collaboration or to enhance creativity but when was the last time any of us saw any creativity from our senior leaders? All they do is copy our competitors mindlessly.

We all know that RTO is tied to three main things, first is propping up commercial real estate prices, can't show that we made an epic mistake buying a building in Charlotte right as the pandemic occurred and work from home was shown as successful, secondly for the tax breaks that a number of cities are offering to bring in employees (tied to occupancy rates) and lastly because of outdated management that think seats at desks are more productive than being at home.

Unfortunately for OP, a large number of people have responsibilities and can't just lose their jobs, so must follow along with the guidelines (senior leaders count on this).

401k matching was 6%, reduced to 4%. I'm sure EL will get bonuses though.

What was the 401K match and what is it now?

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