After working from home for two years, we are being “encouraged” to return to the office. Most of us see no point in returning to the office and suffering through long commutes again. I expect it to get ugly.

What about you?

  • seahorseohio@buckeyestate.social
    9·
    3 years ago

    I work in tech and the CIO convinced the CEO to allow the IT department to work remotely full-time forever because we’d lose already hard-to-retain talent, but all the other departments are required to come back into the office.

    • FinallyCanuck@lemmy.ca
      2·
      3 years ago

      Our company took the same approach. Tech was able to demonstrate better productivity by staying remote. It’s good to have the data for the business case.

    • poVoq@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      IMHO, you should still go on strike as you never know when the tide turns and right now you could use your temporary bargaining power to help your less fortunate colleagues (and likely also your future self).

  • electrodynamica@mander.xyz
    8·
    3 years ago

    The insanity of being forced to commute, at a basic level, and producing 8 figures of profits for higher ups that then take credit while I was paid less than the going rate for my services (which was itself low), is precisely why I became self employed 15 years ago.

    It’s kinda nice that people are waking up to how much we are being exploited but I kinda feel like it’s 2 generations too late. Maybe 3 if you count those who aren’t of working age yet and were born into this dystopia.

    This isn’t just a failed system, and failed economy, it’s been failed for 30 or so years.

  • Monad@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    3 years ago

    I work in a tech company in Europe. They want to force us to come to the office every two weeks because “we need to create bonds, don’t forget we are a big family”. For me, that entails 4 hours of commute every day, and they don’t even cover all the expenses. So far, I’ve been able to tell them to piss off. Let’s see how long this lasts.

    • seahorse [Ohio]A
      11·
      3 years ago

      “we need to create bonds, don’t forget we are a big family”

      I audibly chuckled

  • obsolete29@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    No, I’m fully remote and can’t really imagine having to waste time getting ready, driving into an office and wearing headphones to drown out the loud talkers of the shitty open floor plan office, so I can focus and get work done.