If you are hired with an understanding that you can work from home, and they fire you for failing to obey RTO mandates...with no other performance claims...hmmm.
I'm no lawyer, and Dell won't let me expense a Holiday Inn Express...but it sure sounds like a plan to force people to quit.
Do a gazillion more with less, that's the plan.
Working at Dell torture.
Slow and painful.
That's not the plan. It's much cheaper to offer a severance package than to let people quit on their own. What happens is the good ones are the first to go; the sh---y ones linger and stay on. They don't want that.
Your manager will tell you to opt for remote. Then in subsequent quarters they will pick and choose from the remote list as to who to keep or layoff.
It's a controlled bleeding if you will.
The plan is to torture everyone until they voluntarily leave - except they didn’t account for the bad job market forcing unhappy people to stay, so now they have an empty shell of a company with not enough employees where productivity is slashed to the bottom by low morale and poor working conditions. Whoopsie!
Good thing everyone responsible for these terrible executive decisions will be punished with a fat multimillion dollar paycheck and a gold parachute.