What is everyone’s current situation with RTO? Are your managers enforcing you to be back in the office? How often do you need to come in?
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They forced our team that’s split between three sites back into the office, except they moved us from our downtown Portland OR office to Gresham, OR. causing many of us to have an awful commute when we worked well remotely already. Complete cr-p
Our team pushed the 3 days a week more to fall in line tho none of the managers wanted to do it. In the last month we have lost over half of our team to remote jobs and can’t get anyone new.
I’ll never forget when the rto thing started happening sitting on a call with a senior leader who was singing the praises of being in the office, while speaking from her home office from her gorgeous house in arizona. (She didn’t even bother to change her teams background. 😂)
My return to office is pretty sweet too. The office is basically empty so I usually start my day with a power dump. After that I do some work but not as much as I did when I was remote. Actually what is great is nobody questions my workload because "I am in the office" which everyone knows means you are a better employee.
My RTO is fantastic. Started two weeks ago. My coworker and I have the whole floor to ourselves. So far we only saw four other employees from other business lines during that period. The floor was 1% occupied and zero collaboration!
Sincerely,
Bellevue WA Office
I am officially statused as "remote". The team I work with is scattered all over the country (with nobody in the same geo as me) so there is no point in going into an office to work. The way I interact with people would be exactly the same (via Teams and email) but I would spend 2 hours a day commuting and wasting 2.5 gallons of gas per day. I usually work at least 10-12 hours a day and sometimes more because the requirements of my role are insane. Anybody who says remote workers are not productive is basing that on their experience with poor performers who would probably also be poor performers in the office (or the type of people who "work" the way the characters on the television show The Office "worked").
Our entire team is remote. There are three or four teammates that are either constantly MIA or are very unproductive. If they were to be forced to return to the office they would either learn to be productive or find another employer. Being allowed to work remote is a perk, not a right.
It is already very interesting....very interesting
It’s going to get interesting on this. Business lines should be charged for space they occupy, then let’s see how much they like it when staff doesn’t show up and works offsite. Until management forces their hand we will continue to have half empty buildings
3 days a week encouraged in the office but no signs of any "enforcement". I work in commercial credit.