Pretty sure this is exactly what the company wants, for people like me to voluntarily quit so they can further cut costs without having to do layoffs... but this really might be the final straw for me. Layoffs, worsened culture, tightened performance reviews, budget cuts, and now forced RTO? Seems like working in FAANG is entirely overrated these days. I'm starting to care less and less how "saturated" the remote job market is, I might actually just take the plunge.
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I like the office environment to put more pressure on my reports. I don’t feel in control when they work from home.
Oh no! Google will have to shut down if the OP's slacker bu-t doesn't show up. How will this company survive?
I'm guessing that Google employees were unproductive during WFH. In most other places, productivity went up.
@got all true. But if management wants RTO it's gonna happen unless employees vote with their feet. If you are discontented with how things are being managed, just leave. Otherwise it just goes to show that employees are either okay to put up with it or they have no better choice. In which case RTO is justified.
RTO is a joke. It's just a ploy by middle management to try and prove their questionable / limited value. WFH worked just fine during the pandemic and showed that all this middle management really added little to zero value, but, the mobile technology worked great. After all, why was all this mobile technology developed ? so we can continue working in an antiquated 1920s model ? It's a new world, this is 2023, not 1923. Why is management that is always harping about the need to change, the need to do things differently, the need to think outside the box etc etc, so against and threatened by the WFH change ? But, this is the same "open minded" management that willingly and openly embraces social change with no hesitation ? With RTO you get less than motivated employees sitting in cubes after an aggravating commute, that pollutes the environment, on their phones, fa----g into their seat cushions all day and watching the clock. Productive people will be productive no matter where they work. The WFH Genie has been let out of the bottle and there is no putting it back.
It would be be stupidity on Google Management's part to relax RTO rules based on anonymous posts and no data to show higher attrition rate. A guy who's actually considering leaving would do actually do just that without any drama. At that time management is bound to take note.
I quit a long time ago.. google is a political ring and nothing else.
What are you waiting for? Just quit now, leave this cr-ppy place. You'll find a better company that will value you easily. Layoffs are slowing down significantly.
Goodbye.
OP, unless people actually quitting is not anecdotal, unlikely RTO policies will be relaxed
I'm already having interviews to get out. Sc--w this place.