15 hours a week sitting in the grind, 10 hours a week decompressing. I was more than willing to work from 7-7 every day and field things off hours and on the weekends but now I shut it down. In the collaboration zone I couldn't find a spot, it was noisy, loud, dirty. The companies that will thrive are the ones that can manage WFH. Everyone needs a reminder that AT&T Management Culture couldn't manage inside the office or WFH successfully. In a couple years some Ivy League MBA will come up with a stud that there is greater productivity with AT&T WFH along with all the Real Estate Expense Savings. AT&T always skates to where the puck was, always!
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People that WFH and say they work 7 - 7 are full of sh-t. They are being asked to return to work because the company knows you are a lazy sack of sh-t and might work 2 hours a day. Get back to work or go get your EBT card updated.
I’m pretty sure you’re already shut down
You go big boy! You show them who the boss is!
Our Org had to go into the building the other week for a meeting. I could not get anything done as people kept stopping by my door and wanted to shoot the breeze, asking if I wanted to go to coffee, to lunch, take a walk or just gossip. I kept having to say I would love to but I am really busy, thanks. Folks just do not get it and I do not want to be rude but my job requires concentration and I generally work 9 and sometimes 10 hours a day. I must have lost two hours just in small talk and trying to be nice and avoid people. I am so much more productive at home and none of the folks I work with are at my location. Makes no sense to me but I will do what is asked.
Lazy azz people. Go whine somewhere else. You want to WFH so you can keep ripping the company off and watching Maury rather than working like a decent human being does. People like you are dragging the rest of us down.
It really is academic. I was WFH before COVID. After COVID, they changed me and everyone to the same designation so we had to be in the office 1 to 3 days. If I have to drive 2 hours round trip per day, it is two hours I cannot be available to work. Its shortsighted. On top of this, they do it when gas prices start going through the roof.
got invited to a 12:00 mtg at 12:10, told the boss I was out building human capital at the time....
Look at the big picture! Company requires workers to show up for work at office. Some do some don’t. Some show up but don’t perform. Company cuts workforce . Company fires those that don’t show up. Company fires those that don’t perform. Company surplus / lays off even more. Company sells buildings. Company is leaner meaner and more profitable.
Return to office means I work less hours. I have to drive there and drive home which means I have to leave at a reasonable time to take care of the family. Wfh, I work more hours because I don’t have to commute and can spend that extra time or jump back on easily. Heck man, just think of all the savings that could be had canceling those expensive office leases, plus utilities, maintenance, upkeep. Huge cost savings in WFH.
Reads like a 3 year old having a temper tantrum because they can’t get their way…
If you don’t like your work requirements, man up and get a new job. They owe you nothing…
Yeah. It’s bare minimum work the two days a week I go in. Hey, I’m busy collaborating so less work gets done. It’s what they want.
I agree with the statement regarding att “skating to where the puck was”. This is the same company that got onboard with open spaces 20-30 years after it was introduced. Someone will figure out what is the correct approach and companies will flock to it.
Right now, companies can’t afford for employees not to be in the office because they are paying a sh:t ton of money on floor space.
You can’t have only 3rd lines and up at the office. You need peasants to make it appear that there are people who are being managed
I've purposely produced substantially less work value for the company since being forced to return to the office and I know many of my co-workers have done the same. Quite frankly, we just don't GAF and we do the very minimum to not get fired. Any upper level manager reviewing the data of performance metrics, productivity and attendance, will obviously see their failed decision to force us back to the office. We simply laugh at their stupidity. We just hope to be laid off so we each get the termination package. And we'll continue laughing.