It is painfully obvious if someone is not working. Indicators are the same for home and office-based people. There are many people based in offices who are, to put it mildly, slacking. However, most of us, both home and office based, are grown up people who do not need bossing around to do our jobs responsibly. For many of us WFH was not only a matter of convenience, but the only option to actually work. If you think that someone can up and relocate in this economy for a job in a company that’s been continuously shedding employees, then think again. So don’t be a--holes to people bi--hing about RTO, but to those who are treating all of us like disposable budget items and putting us in impossible situations because they don’t care.
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I was very efficient working from home, putting in extra time because of not needing to wake up early to drive to avoiding being stuck in traffic. Not hearing noise, smelling peoples gross foods, and so on. Stress levels went down and my productivity went up! Was off medication for sleep and other types of anxiety due to Dell (still had to pay for necessities [not luxuries] and food for kids). We were happy and thriving saving money from driving and working well. Then managers told me to start driving in five days a week again, and I'm on medication for anxiety from it and sleeping disorders all over again, and kids see us less again. Sickening how being in the building again, seeing people kicking their feet on their desks with cell phones in their hands.
Managers don't have the skills to deal with remote workers. Dell doesn't value managers who develop and support their staff it's all about reaching stretch goals execs put in knowing they can't be met.
My boss went 9 months without having a single meeting with me. Those managers can't do any better with in office staff.
It makes no sense, people are not more productive in the office!! This is about reducing headcount and saving on severances only. Cant they see we can see through their BS by now?!
"If we make it su-k bad enough, people will just quit, and we won't have to pay them severance."
Or people too busy with ERG groups like WIA to do their actual jobs.
This. This is spot on. @1ulf+1uIfV3Ff thank you
"People who don't do any work at home are the same ones in the office who aren't doing any work. RTO changes nothing for those people's productivity. It does, however, make a big difference in productivity of employees who are actually working because they aren't distracted by other employees and aren't wasting productive hours sitting in mind numbing traffic. Countless studies have shown this."
Leadership know this, they know how hard we work, they know this will ki-l productivity and customer coverage but they are doing it anyway. This can only be to reduce heads.
@1oom+1uIfV3Ff People who don't do any work at home are the same ones in the office who aren't doing any work. RTO changes nothing for those people's productivity. It does, however, make a big difference in productivity of employees who are actually working because they aren't distracted by other employees and aren't wasting productive hours sitting in mind numbing traffic. Countless studies have shown this.
@1oom+1uIfV3Ff can tell you dont work here, no one works part time, except you, when you came to my place last night for some sugar.
Instead of bi--hing and whining about having to come back to work full time, how a thank you Mr.MSD and Mr.JC for allowing me to work part-time for the last four-five years with full time pay and benefits. You sales people are out of control.
100% agree
This is actually the most factual and intelligent post here.
And. The exec know all this but they are still forcing RTO. So this can only be about making people resign
plenty of productivity WFH and leadership knows this, they simply cannot afford to waste their infrastructure investments, so they generate these narratives
Regularly on calls starting at 5AM, often find myself still in front of the laptop at 7PM. Do I take a few minutes during the day to make myself coffee, take a shower, go for a quick run? Sure, but I put my time and effort in. WFH offers flexibility but it goes both ways (that was the whole point, get your work done whether it's 5AM, 10AM, 10PM). Commuting to an office (where I don't work with a single person, because after 10+ years of Dell embracing remote work everyone I work with is spread around the globe) 2+ hours a day removes that flexibility. It returns us to a rigid old-school work day mindset, which really isn't compatible with global teams who need that flexibility to collaborate. Guess what that means? No more calls at 5/6AM because I'll be wasting my time and money commuting. This will be counterproductive, but we all know increasing productivity isn't the point of RTO...it's to make us quit.
And shame on MD for not sticking by his previous g-ns and story about how remote work is a great thing!! Total
radio silence while JC continues to push RTO and further make worse an already bad morale
Seriously....i get so much more work done at home in my office with no distractions, no overly obnoxious conversation nonstop around my seat, no pointless conversations with people who walk around their entire shift, no traffic to deal with that takes 2 hrs out of my day (1 to get there, 1 to get back), i could go on and on......its nothing but a power trip by JC and others to force people to try to come back.
I'd just like to point out that every time I've been to a Dell office, people were playing ping pong and/or video games. Every. Single. Time.