Yes, I already posted this but I went off on a rant and forgbot to write about WHY I think this will happen lol...
My own opinion is that the 5 days/week RTO cr-p was implemented because the VP of Sales decided it was a "good idea" to do last August. Thanks buddy. Dell then decided to follow suit for a few reasons.
If they are only monitoriting badge swipes - which is literally ALL they are doing - but go on to say they don't require anybody to be IN office for any set amount of time... Then why even bother?
I'm sure they are well aware a lot of people just swipe and go home without even going into the building - I sure af do lol - but, the execs are going to get tired of monitoring somethign so trivial. At the end of the day, if everything is going smoothinly financially, business wise, and whatever else... it doesn't matter if people are going in 5x or 1x per week.
If the directors/sr. directors/execs are happy then that's all that matters. Badge swipes doesn't = better performance or more money. It does equal unhappy employees being forced to drive into an office and still go on Teams meetings because their entire damn team is spread across the country, or world.
My opinion and guess is that this was done in hopes to force people to quit. Nothing more and nothing less. Now they are laying off again (as usual...) which to me means, not enough people actually quit and they have no choice. Not that they weren't going to anyways but, they are 100% trying to force people to quit versus having to lay off. Those who quit aren't eligible for a severance or unemployment benefits so... It's cheaper for Dell to implement these things and not have to pay out.
I'm betting money, especially after the horendous Tell Dell results lol! that they will scale it back to 3 days/week and not monitor jack sh-t. Mark my word, this whole thing will be a thing of the past by January at the latest.