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With my manager being on one side of my country and most of my team members on another, any attempt at ‘return to the office for collaboration’ invariably means

With my manager being on one side of my country and most of my team members on another, any attempt at ‘return to the office for collaboration’ invariably means sitting at a hot desk in an over subscribed office with my headphones on all day because every conversation I have is on a video call. Problem is, they’re still pushing for it. With a workforce spread the way many tech industry ones are, I really don’t see any reason to go in frequently at all, and I’ll happily change jobs to continue doing my current 4 days a week from my well equipped office at home. I don’t need to book the desk in advance and I can even leave my laptop on the desk too.

koz1000 3y ago
And, not you specifically, but you're the guy that ruins RTO for everyone else. I'm hybrid and every Wednesday there's a wave of people that slide in, put in their earbuds, and shout into Teams calls for eight hours. It's impossible to concentrate. I've managed to get some of them to get self aware and use conference rooms or those silly phone booths, but it's a nonstop problem now.
- atherton33 3y ago
  Our conference rooms and phone booths are booked out weeks ahead, so it's not like there's a choice. They even turned a bunch of them into desk space because of the hiring that happened during wfh. I'd never met the people I sit next to before, and we work on totally unrelated projects. What is the point?
- PebblesHD 3y ago
  Much like sibling, our 6 meeting rooms are booked so far in advance I’d never have a chance. For people who have no choice to be in meetings all day, we’d also much rather not be in the middle of the floor, but ever since I joined the workforce I haven’t even had a cubicle let alone an office, so the business world demands that I sit at my desk next to people who’d much prefer to concentrate feeling bad about it all day.

koz1000 3y ago

And, not you specifically, but you're the guy that ruins RTO for everyone else. I'm hybrid and every Wednesday there's a wave of people that slide in, put in their earbuds, and shout into Teams calls for eight hours. It's impossible to concentrate. I've managed to get some of them to get self aware and use conference rooms or those silly phone booths, but it's a nonstop problem now.

atherton33 3y ago
Our conference rooms and phone booths are booked out weeks ahead, so it's not like there's a choice. They even turned a bunch of them into desk space because of the hiring that happened during wfh. I'd never met the people I sit next to before, and we work on totally unrelated projects. What is the point?
PebblesHD 3y ago
Much like sibling, our 6 meeting rooms are booked so far in advance I’d never have a chance. For people who have no choice to be in meetings all day, we’d also much rather not be in the middle of the floor, but ever since I joined the workforce I haven’t even had a cubicle let alone an office, so the business world demands that I sit at my desk next to people who’d much prefer to concentrate feeling bad about it all day.