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> We object when you force it on employees because it's what works for you, regardless of what works for them. I think I'm a bit old school. My outlook can be
by taborj 6y ago
> We object when you force it on employees because it's what works for you, regardless of what works for them.
I think I'm a bit old school. My outlook can be summed up like this: If you like your job, and you want to keep your job, you'll do what your boss asks unless it's illegal or immoral.
So if my boss told me I had to work in an office, I'd weight that against the "if you want to keep your job" portion of the above, and decide if that's for me. If not, I quit and go find something where WFH is an option. If so, I go work in the office. Most likely I'd work in the office until I found something else or management realized that they were losing employees and changed the policy (I suppose in that way we can "force" the business to conform to our whims).
Perhaps that's a privileged point of view, or makes me a drone. But my life isn't work; I work to live, not live to work, so minor inconveniences at work don't derail my life; it's just a job, something I do to afford more important things.
For the record, I've worked from home for the last 9 years, and I have coworkers who had a really tough time adapting to WFH; they had to weigh if the trouble to change was worth it for them. Some felt it wasn't worth the trouble and left, many found it was and stayed.
- Icathian 6y agoSure, nothing strange about that. But having to quit a job because management can't get their heads around remote work is inconvenient for everyone involved. It would be much better if that weren't necessary, no? That's the "objection" I meant. My last org had a really bad wfh policy, inconsistently enforced across teams. I ended up leaving over it (mostly). There are a lot of things that won't get done because I'm not around to do them, and they'll lose a good bit of money over it. Seems like a weird hill for them to die on, but they did so. I wish they hadn't.
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- netjiro 6y ago> you'll do what your boss asks unless it's illegal or immoral. As an employee your primary obligation is not to your boss, but to the owners of the company. If your boss is ordering you to do something that is detrimental to the company, you should fix the situation. But not necessarily follow the orders of your boss. This is a very common misconception, imo.
- taborj 6y agoThe assumption in my comment is your boss is also acting in the best interest of the company. I thought that was clear, but perhaps not.