I live within 4 miles of the office and I drive to work. If someone lives within that range there should be no reason not to come into the office. We are required to be in 4 days when January arrives. Heck, many weeks I have been in 5 days. No big deal. I feel sorry for those who have psyched themselves into thinking RTO is a problem. It really isn't. A little understanding and a little maturity is all it takes.
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If you don't like RTO, working for WF, then go find a NEW Job and stop complaining
You sound like a manager. Good for you that you live within 4 miles of the office. It appears you have no empathy or concern for people who live 20 miles plus from the office and spend an hour plus commuting each way. It's self-serving employees like you that keep the Charlie's of the world in their seats.
I have a life outside of work so it's a really big deal actually. 2 hours back into my day not sitting in my car in traffic commuting. Not to mention the cost savings of less gas, wear on your car, expensive lunches, parking, bus fare etc.
I live 13 miles from my required location. I don’t mind going into the office 5 days. It’s my choice. I think others should get their choice too. If it’s WFH, fine. I have my choice they should have theirs. Not my business. It should be between employee and their manager.
Then there are areas that aren’t content with getting everyone into the hubs, they are now saying that they want people to be in 2-3 of the hubs.
Today I learned Going into an office = maturity. @OP spreading that knowledge.
OP is clearly a troll - either just deliberately wants to stir things up, OR is just a garden variety a__hole and just acts troll-like as normal mode of behavior.
My team is spread out over several states and time zones. It’s only me and two of my teammates at our site. We all work in the office on different days and times. And one of them I don’t even work with directly! Our jobs can be done totally remote.
Between the commuting costs and our upcoming newly increased benefits premiums, the last “raise” I had is now completely wiped out by just those two expenses.
What’s funny is that having more workers RTO makes it a lot easier to organize people into action such as forming a Union. As people have been trickling back into the office I’ve overheard conversations. There are flyers in the break rooms and cafeteria at our site now
St. Louis folks say RTO means a 1% city tax on their checks that they didn’t have to pay WFH
i live 5 miles from my assigned location, I do my swipe and go 3 days a week. Its easier when you live close, i take 30 min break to go to office swipe and come back home.
Whether or not you’re required to RTO should have nothing to do with degree of difficulty and everything to do with value added to the company. Employees whose jobs by their nature require time spent in office know who they are and really shouldn’t even have to be forced in, because they wouldn’t be able to perform their job requirements without coming in. People who have 0 reason to be in office won’t want to be there now matter how close they are. People are going to begrudge even the slightest inconvenience, so long as it’s a completely pointless inconvenience.
It was for a decade prior to COVID soooo, it's not unreasonable to believe that our employer wouldn't be so phuqing stupid and petty as to rescind it in their mad push for attrition. But, here we are. Viva la resistance. I'll oppose these SOBs to whatever end.
It su-ks even more to have to pay 300 to commute when literally no one on your team (or that you work with) is in the same building. 3600 a year is a lot that could be going to feeding one’s family as opposed to showing up in an office where you do not work with anyone there. I agree if they want people in they should pay for the parking/some commuting costs.
my commute isn't too bad, ~30min, and I don't have to pay for parking so I don't mind going in, but for those having to drive upwards of an hour plus, pay for mass transit, parking. etc. I get it. A lot of those folks got used to saving $300 per mo in commute costs alone. Easy to say it's what they did before, but still hurts especially when our merit increases aren't even enough to cover inflation, it ends up being a pay cut. There are many things the company could do to ease the burden like increase our wages to cover the added expense, pay for parking, give us assigned cubes but they won't.
people think work from home was for life LOL
There's nothing mature about wasting time and money so some POSs in NYC can pressure people into quitting. FHY, FOP, and FRTO.
Shill
38 miles from office (I am in a hub), going in 3 days a week since March 2022. I hate it, as no one from my team is there, but su-king it up ‘til 2/5 when I am giving notice. Have my calendar and crossing off the days. Can’t wait to be out of this toxic place. Was remote for 6 years before RTO managing a large team. Never had an issue …
It's always refreshing to see one-dimensional viewpoints of the world like @OP has. Critical thinking is a valuable and exceedingly rare commodity these days.
A lot of people across all the banks are going to find out they're laid off Jan 2nd.
Please use the prepaid label to mail in your laptop, and we will mail back your office belongings within 2 weeks.
Shut up.
Because only 1% live within 4 miles. Especially the cities with downtown locations
Great point, Scott (Powell)!