Imagine being so miserable that you want to force others to be in the office with you? How pathetic are you?
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Empathy is a skill that very few have.
My dear, of course I want you back. I don’t actually do any work. My work is the stage, the theater and without the office I have access to neither. I need to be seen marching off hastily from one conference room to another. I need to be seen surrounded by underlinings and to intimidate them by standing behind them looking at their computer screen. I need to be seen wearing fancy clothes, including 3 thousand dollar jeans, while attending breakfasts and demos with the higher ups so I can kiss a-s and ask some basic questions that really aren’t questions but some a-s kissing about how great Fido is. That’s how I earn my bread, my fat bonuses and my grade 8 pay.
Yes, It is not necessary. Yes it burns many good, productive, loyal people who either just leave or turn their lives upside down to accommodate this. Do I care? Really if I cared, or more specifically the big wigs even higher than me, we wouldn’t be doing this. It’s so sad some of the biggest losers are the middle managers who were so loyal to us all these years. I guess more bonus money for us!
Imagine….Being hired 10+ years ago to a FULLY remote global team and now being told to sit in a cube on Zooms while your counterpart isn’t even in the US. We played nice when it was 3 days, when it was just a week…but two weeks to sit alone to take
remote meetings is absolutely ridiculous. This should NOT be a one size fits all policy.
Imagine being such a child that going to the office makes you cry when you work for a company that will fund your 401K so so can retire at 55 if you want to after 20 years.....
No one’s butt is in a chair during dynamic weeks. Recent college grads literally stand around and talk all day long. They will find anything to do other than work.
Fidelity always promoted for executive presence and influence, now all the executives want to evaluate that way and it’s nearly impossible to do remotely. They want butts in chairs because they believe it develops better loyalty which is hard to come by in a company full of constant change and ruthless politics and nepotism.
Makes sense why some want RTO. They have no work to show for if they don't. How else will they account for their time they are not talking to you in the break room, stopping you to talk to you in the hall, stopping and talking to you while you're taking a pi-s at the urinal or in the stall. Most of their day is conversations and bugging other people to make themselves look busy.
Imagine being such a child that going to the office makes you cry?