Just stay at home and don’t distract everyone else. Trying to concentrate is hard enough even with the whole flex desk BS. No one needs to hear a blow by blow of your personal problems. There are still people at this company that actually have deliverables.
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@fj no wonder nothing actually gets done here. Talkfest teams
Ha! Which muppets are actually coming into the office? Just WFH. My team does it all the time.
@ba It’s people with your mindset that make this place su-k.
@dg looking at the past rounds, these collaboration type managers are most likely to survive. And the lifers who have relationships
Managers who hide behind 'collaboration' just to hold endless meetings without producing any actual deliverables are talentless and should be fired. Every single meeting should be judged on its ROI. Most of them are just playing house with collaboration in meaningless meetings. We don't need meetings just to 'gather information.'
Look at the high performers. They research, organize, and execute on their own, using only the minimum necessary communication to ship results at top speed. Meetings should be reserved for emergencies only
Those id--ts are going to be gone in the next round of layoffs anyway. Let's cut the small talk and just focus. If those fools—the ones who hide behind 'collaboration' just to gossip, play office politics, and nitpick everyone’s mistakes—don't get the axe, this company is honestly toast
@as lol they have HR doing damage control on here now, what an absolute clown show
What’s even worse is seeing people come into the office just to sit on Zoom/Teams all day. So pointless, just let me people work from home.
@as sounds like you aren’t busy enough, then. My team is so understaffed and there is so much work we don’t have time for collaboration when we are in the office, and we would have more time to actually get through the work we need to do if we didn’t have to spend hours commuting each week. So now our work-life balance is worse because there are more late night and weekend work.
The Senior Leadership doesn’t get this because they are so far removed from the actual work being done and surrounded by “yes” men that they have zero clue what is actually happening at their own company.
So I guess yes, you are “aligned” with leadership since you don’t seem to have much to do and are embarrassingly out of touch.
A bit of water cooler chat should be fine. I find it only gets too much when you see teamster like staff walk around dozens of times a day and making a pitstop at several different colleagues desks and proceed to have a talkfest about anything and everything. The worst is the over the top laugher. KMN.
@OP I can't talk to your "in-aisle" experience without walking a mile in your shoes. I'm a big supporter of at least limited RTO though. I find in-office collaboration/productivity to be of great value - not having to search calendars and wait days to discuss a quick point or two or add to the long list of group chats. In-office team days have been great to concentrate the value of in-person. Mileage varies based on role, I'm sure. I haven't found the switch to flex desks to be all that different. There are times where I will put in headphones to drown out the annoyances around me. But most often, it is the ebbs and flows of office life around me - and that happened in cubicles as well. In either model, there were always some who displayed poor time management and lack of judgement. That has been the case at every single place I've ever worked though. Hope it levels out and gets better for you!
This is a decision taken by top leadership. Not your choice.
The only choice you have is to fall in line or go elsewhere. Coming here to whine suggests you cannot go elsewhere
@as Sure collaboration is about bullsh-tting about weekend plans, last night’s baseball game, walking to Starbucks 3 times a day to get a coffee then standing around chatting about nonsense. Learn to have a mind of your own instead of being a yes person and following TRP’s weak company’s culture. You sound like you have been brainwashed by this id--tic leadership that we have in place…and people wonder why the company is going down the tubes.
@ba You are either an a-s kisser or perhaps just young and naive..or both. You probably also think TRP is a great company too.
Nope. I choose to align with the decisions made by our Senior Leadership team. We have WFH time to focus on quiet work. We are supposed to aim higher on the days we get to spend among our teammates and colleagues.
If that doesn't resonate with you, there are lots of other employers out there.
@as Really? OP is correct. You sound like you work in HR. Perhaps you should wake up and not drink the Kool Aid if you even know what that means.
Sounds like your co-workers are embracing the purpose of RTO - cross functional collaboration, spontaneous communication, and upholding the best aspects of our company culture.
RTO was never about long stretches of quiet, solitary, head-down work. Perhaps you should better align with enterprise priorities.