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"For instance, some employees who are part of global teams will come into the office only to continue taking virtual meetings, and they may not even have a cowo

"For instance, some employees who are part of global teams will come into the office only to continue taking virtual meetings, and they may not even have a coworker in their office, the petition states." My company is RTO, but with teams across offices, so I know this pain all too well. Our leadership has not addressed this disconnect either, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

paxys 4y ago
I'm in the exact same situation. My company issued a 3 day/week in the office mandate for anyone living within X miles of an office. Except that most of our hiring during the pandemic has been remote and in lower-cost regions (to cut costs no doubt), and so people who do end up going to the office will still not have any coworkers around them and will just be in meeting rooms doing zoom calls all day.
plorkyeran 4y ago
I guess the obvious question is that if no one on your team is in the same office as you, who will even notice if you don't show up to the office? As long as your direct manager is on board, it seems easy to just disregard the RTO requirement and keep working from home.
- VBprogrammer 4y ago
  Clearly you don't have the kind of dystopian office which records to the second when you scan your office pass for the first and last times in a day.
- bravetraveler 4y ago
  This is basically how I started WFH before the pandemic necessitated it The doors know I haven't been there in X months, but nobody in my distributed org cares to look
- dvtrn 4y ago
  who will even notice if you don't show up to the office? They don’t have to “notice” it. They don’t even have to see it. Do you have an access badge to get into your company campus/building/suite? My last job started tracking access badge activity to monitor and enforce RTTO compliance. Found it funny to get nagged about not hitting the required minimum number by a boss who lived four states away. Laughed all the way out the door and into a new company whose policy is “if you wanna wfh, then wfh. If you want to come to the office, be our guest.”

paxys 4y ago

I'm in the exact same situation. My company issued a 3 day/week in the office mandate for anyone living within X miles of an office. Except that most of our hiring during the pandemic has been remote and in lower-cost regions (to cut costs no doubt), and so people who do end up going to the office will still not have any coworkers around them and will just be in meeting rooms doing zoom calls all day.

plorkyeran 4y ago

I guess the obvious question is that if no one on your team is in the same office as you, who will even notice if you don't show up to the office? As long as your direct manager is on board, it seems easy to just disregard the RTO requirement and keep working from home.

VBprogrammer 4y ago
Clearly you don't have the kind of dystopian office which records to the second when you scan your office pass for the first and last times in a day.
bravetraveler 4y ago
This is basically how I started WFH before the pandemic necessitated it The doors know I haven't been there in X months, but nobody in my distributed org cares to look
dvtrn 4y ago
who will even notice if you don't show up to the office? They don’t have to “notice” it. They don’t even have to see it. Do you have an access badge to get into your company campus/building/suite? My last job started tracking access badge activity to monitor and enforce RTTO compliance. Found it funny to get nagged about not hitting the required minimum number by a boss who lived four states away. Laughed all the way out the door and into a new company whose policy is “if you wanna wfh, then wfh. If you want to come to the office, be our guest.”