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It went like this, paraphrased:
Hi boss, I don't think that avoiding any form of social contact is good for me. Since it's clear that this is now the new expected working environment, I am resigning effective immediately. Toodles!
I guess it'd be a bit like that but the other way around.
I've been out of work for 10 months. Be careful out there.
RTO - return to office
I left my job because they enforced WFH. It went like this, paraphrased: Hi boss, I don't think that avoiding any form of social contact is good for me. Since it's clear that this is now the new expected working environment, I am resigning effective immediately. Toodles! I guess it'd be a bit like that but the other way around.
But for people for whom work is life and what little social interaction they get is at work you're strongly RTO because that's your lifeline.
And our current CEO moved states for this job and he's lonely as fuck so our office went RTO.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tin foil hat says commercial real estate overlords need warm bodies in their empty buildings to provide foot traffic for lease signs go down. The weird thing is, I’m sure many people here would likely take a pay cut over RTO. If only we used this monumental opportunity to rethink how we need to collaborate and design cities to support or even embrace remote work models. Instead, back to concrete jungles and mind numb…
I definitely think there’s merit to the conspiracy theory that people who own shares in companies are the same general groups of people as those who own commercial real estate interests. Or there’s the tried and true explanation that it’s just micromanagers who want play power games with their employees. The senior leadership team member can’t really conceptualize a world where an individual doesn’t sacrifice their e…
Everyone thinks they are the good employee that doesn’t need to be managed thank you very much. Yet every manager has seen employees that produce very little if they aren’t constantly managed.
And every manager thinks they’re a good manager, too!
I left my job because they enforced WFH. It went like this, paraphrased: Hi boss, I don't think that avoiding any form of social contact is good for me. Since it's clear that this is now the new expected working environment, I am resigning effective immediately. Toodles! I guess it'd be a bit like that but the other way around.
This captures exactly the split I've seen at my office. If you have a social life outside of work you are probably strongly WFH because why would you spend your social energy with coworkers when you have friends you like and chose. But for people for whom work is life and what little social interaction they get is at work you're strongly RTO because that's your lifeline. And our current CEO moved states for this job…
I enjoyed the social interaction in my job and it didn't really affect my ability to see friends and family after work or at the weekend.
Since WFH became commonplace most of them have moved out of the city so it's actually harder now because my friends live all over the place.
It also feels like people are less likely to go out in general now.
My comment was more about the fact that I just think that social distancing was a load of bollocks and that we could have just gone to work with some people WFH as before and gotten the same end result.
Yeah, I got a job as a dev at one of the UK's high street fashion retailers during the pandemic. Got a load of praise from directors n everyone else for implementing a proper development workflow within the department, as a junior. After the pandemic we all got an RTO mandate and I found a new, fully remote, job within a month. The director of the department I was in at the original employer told me she would not be…
1&2 are non-negotiable
Yeah, I got a job as a dev at one of the UK's high street fashion retailers during the pandemic. Got a load of praise from directors n everyone else for implementing a proper development workflow within the department, as a junior. After the pandemic we all got an RTO mandate and I found a new, fully remote, job within a month. The director of the department I was in at the original employer told me she would not be…
Probably a good move on your part
Yet we did just fire one guy for claiming he was still active on a project that was put into maintenance mode 6 months ago. Some people are not mature enough to handle managing their own time.
Personally, the office space was a cost only second to labor, and people would have to be epically unproductive to offset the operational savings. =)