Has anyone heard anything lately on if/when they are going to push for us to return to office again
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They continue hiring new hire classes remote only and the people live no where near an office so it would be hard to enforce.
@2cg
Good. Time to chose that million dollar home with an hour commute versus sell...in this economy...hahaha..no buyers.
Hearing EDs and up are all expected to relocate to be near office to RTO within next 3 years
@1zf troll I don’t buy it
Head from multiple sources, looks like Aetna is being asked back 3 days, including DDAT, timing yet undetermined
LOL cvs less strict. CVS isn’t less strict about anything.
@mr most, but not all, hybrid workers who do not come into the office are doing non work things during work hours.
So many people use the argument that as long as the work gets done, then its fine, but that is asinine. 9 to 5 you need to be available. Not taking a walk, doing laundry, tending to a child, or anything else. Other people depend on you being available at your assigned hours. Also, there is always more work to be done. Saying as long as the work gets done means doing minimal work.
Yes, me coming to your desk can interrupt you, but you not responding is blocking me. So that is a wash and not a valid argument.
Why do you think your train of thought is more valuable than anyone else's work? It's not.
Regardless, my main argument was that our company is less strict about RTO than others which is contrary to what OP suggested.
@kk
Right? None of the EDs even work near an office where most of their teams are.
Guess they have to relocate their offices to the upscale NY suburbs, maybe the chic Tampa area...the majestic Smoky Mountains...
@de+1kkn1k2gt having you come to my desk and interrupt my train of thought with your irrelevant question is not "working better." peak office slopper midwit mentality right there
If the leadership wants RTO, they need to visibly be on site as well. I’ll go in when ED’s and up go in.
Most companies in the area and all similar companies my friends work for have implemented RTO quite a long time back. CVS seems to be an outlier and isn't forcing us back in for the time being.
It would be a bit awkward for Joyner to walk back the comments he made about RTO, but the facilities are expensive and underutilized. Don't know how much longer they plan on paying for the realestate without utilization.
So the comment about CVS being rigid, in this case at least, we are very flexible.
And yes, in office employees work better together than remote workers. Nothing will convince me otherwise. Trying to get a hold of someone remote is nearly impossible, but being able to walk to their desk and ask them a question usually works.
This is just my 2 cents, but the pandemic taught us that certain people or roles can operate work from home, and the company does just fine. Fast forward to the end of the pandemic, and now corporations are paying premium prices for unused office space and all of the sudden it’s a problem. Plus on top of that, you have senior management people, like executives, who need to justify their jobs by having people work in office as opposed to working from home, so that it makes the executive look good, even though employees could work from home just fine. So combine real estate costs and people needing to justify their position, and you have return to office initiatives.
In this current economy companies need to be more flexible to survive, not rigid like cvs. RTO benefits executives but does nothing for employees. If the work can be done from home just fine, then if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.