I have been calculating my commute time lately, and the numbers are depressing. I spend about ninety minutes in the car every day, which adds up to more than an entire workday each week just sitting in traffic. I am curious what everyone else's numbers look like. How much of your life have you lost to driving since we were forced back into the office?
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To save the rest of your life then you should quit. You waste more of your life crying RTO here also.
@ef same bs.
2hrs a day, 10hrs a week, so about 40hrs a month.. on and on. To be stuck on Teams all day. But, I am seeking employment elsewhere on company's time.
Take up me-h and stop sleeping, you'll get them back.
150 miles per day in LA do the math
@js if it was a requirement to complete the scope of the job or if there was any kind of real benefit nobody would care or complain.
However, that’s not the case for 90%+ of office jobs. The industry standard is hybrid for a reason. Most of us were WFH before Covid for a reason. People are tired of driving hours each day just to have zero face to face interaction and sit on teams calls they could have taken from home. The entire purpose is reducing headcount through misery tactics and nothing else. If you actually think there’s any real business benefit to 5x RTO then you’re just a low IQ individual.
@js , get back to sm00ching backs1de & l1cking boots senor sycophant.
The audacity of AT&T to dare ask employees to work in the office.
3 hours a day, 15 hours a week, 60 hours a month, 720 hours a year. That is 30 days worth of time spent commuting. One month of your life every year will be spent driving in circles to make a number on a report and zero real benefit. #LifeAtATT
@gm I do more internet browsing in the office than I ever did at home
“Used to be 10+ as a standard while working from home for nearly two decades.”
Time spent browsing the Internet on non-work related items shouldn’t be counted as part of your daily work presence total. More advanced network metrics reports have clarified how much time employees are wasting and brought us to where we are today with RTO.
This has to be a troll post. No one is this f'ing entitled. Can you imagine making this post? Omg ... kids these days.
I can imagine the hunter and gatherers back in the day. “I don’t mind hunting but why do I have to walk to find the animals”.
@ek , absolute bovine sc-t. It was implemented to cull the herd in order to further line C suite pockets.
@ek they’ll never get more than 8 hours a day from me anymore. Used to be 10+ as a standard while working from home for nearly two decades. You can’t fix stupid
What about all the wasted hours AT&T will never get back from the time many employees spent at home? This is why RTO has been implemented.
@aa spending Memorial Day on this board. :(
Carpooling is your friend.
I spend one month of every year commuting to the office. What a waste
Sleep in the break room every night. No commute required.
@ah , go back to dragging through crawl spaces, up in hot attics or slacking off at the CO.
Sounds awful. You should just quit and take that time back!
If you live in a cardboard box you'll have all 24 hours a day free time.
@ah LOL!
@ba Sounds like you know from personal experience, people in glass houses…
Opposite. I was 50 hours a week from home. I give about 25 in the office. I mena I'm supposed to "collaborate", right?
I spend 45 minutes a day loggin in to salesforce and crash launching into opus. Makes total sense. I add 11 screens that do absolutely nothing but " loading " . We do busy work now. And customers watch our screens and ask us what is going on ? We just tell them the truth - we have no idea, these are the tools the company gave us - or lack thereof.
Costco runs also taking hours of my life that I will never get back.
At least AT&T is finally getting 40 hours of employee time each week consistently. Until RTO was implemented, many employees were putting in less than 20 hours of work time.”
The fun part is you are now paying Exxon almost as much per hour of commuting as AT&T is paying you to sit at your wagesl4ve kiosk.
"managers" lol...
90 minutes each way so 15 hours weekly
Approx 45 minutes a day, but I have more free time now as I cut my hours back to 7 a.m.to 3 p.m.
about 45 minutes a day.
Craft here. You management folk are the whiniest little beetches ever. Been crying about RTO for YEARS now. Doesn’t get any more pathetic.
90 minutes total a day? That’s pretty good for living in a major metro.
No one is being forced back to the office. Employment is at will for both AT&T and you as an employee.
O commute time, sleep under my desk!
About 10 min. Moved close to office as told.