That really is the most ridiculous part. Even if your team is local, a huuuge amount of interaction is spread across tbe globe.
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kennebel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“You must go in to the office, so that you can get on calls with your team or other teams, which are in the other global offices.” (rolling eyes)
ripcord@lemmy.world 6 months ago
lobut@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
A few months ago my director started discussions on return to office mandates. No one else really paid any attention.
I went in today and nobody is here, including my director. I don’t think anyone thinks the commute is worth the value they’re pitching.
I should have slept in an extra two hours.
aniki@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What happens if you just never go in? I’m so glad my office is in Denver and I am in New England.
menemen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Worst are the meeting of international work groups. Stressful travel, being away from the family for days, sitting in a shitty meeting room talking about the same shit you talk about online and then sitting with a bunch of people getting senseless drunk, cringing constantly. I hate those meetings.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I never went back to the office after the pandemic.
I actually got really sick and had to spend a small amount of time in hospital, afterwards I might have slightly paid up the emotional trauma to management so they couldn’t try that BS. Eventually they did anyway I along with a lot of my colleagues quit and got another job straight away.
Apparently they have now flip-flopped again and are back to permanent work from home for everyone who wants it. I wonder if losing a third of their work force in a month had something to do with that.
menemen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
100% homeoffice jobs are incredibly rare in Germany. I habe 50% homeoffice which is quite good for German standards. Even at the height of Corona the offices weren’t empty here.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Even at the height of Corona the offices weren’t empty here.
That seems like a problem. They should have been.
The point in a lockdown if you’re not actually locking anyone down. It’s not a lockdown then.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Where I work they are so fucking stupid they are making everyone go back to the office to ‘foster collaboration’ but all the seating is random - you sit somewhere new every day, first come first served. What useful tasks am I going to collaborate on with random people from all different parts of the company sitting around me each day? It shows that the executives are just fucking liars and aren’t willing to tell the truth, which is that they need people spending money in the cities to help with their portfolios. Or they are just doing what everyone else is doing. Or they’re just on a power trip. Or all of the above.
wagoner@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Do the top executives also sit randomly with other colleagues?
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ahahahaha, the executives don’t have to come in to the office.
Drusenija@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And even if they do they have dedicated offices with doors.
kennebel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My current company stated that if you have a local office and want to go there fine, but otherwise do your job where it makes sense. Of course my boss is on one coast, the rest of my team is spread out in multiple states on the other coast, and I’m kind of in the middle of the country.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mine told everybody “if you have a local office and want to go there fine, otherwise you’re laid off. Also we’re closing a bunch of offices so if you don’t live near one anymore you have to move at your own expense. Otherwise you’re laid off. Also no job guarantee even if you do move, we might lay you off the next day. Hey why is morale in the toilet?”
kennebel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We had a large layoff a few months ago, including people with over a decade of time at the company, and a meeting afterwards where an exec said, “Yes you were working hard before, and now with many hundreds of people let go, we are asking you to work even harder.” Not all rainbows and butterflies where I am, just that one piece about remote work. :)
Got a weird speech recently that we all need to work hard for the company to succeed, but raises and bonuses were dependent on the “economy and stock market” doing well, if “the economy” was going to continue to do poorly, then there was nothing management can do about skipping another year of raises, and we should just be glad we haven’t had another RIF.