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Except, some jobs really really don't require much if any collaboration. We've been having to come back into the office since last September. In all that time,
by irrational 3y ago
Except, some jobs really really don't require much if any collaboration. We've been having to come back into the office since last September. In all that time, I've only spoken to another person a single time. Literally one hour in one day in the past 5 months. All meetings are still over zoom and when I'm not in a meeting, I just find some place in the building to sit and work. Except many people still weren't coming in since september and now they have cracked down on it and said people must be in the office and they are checking badge check-ins and the ip address of where our work laptops are being used to see if they are on the campus network or not. The result is tons of people are here now, but there isn't room for them. Before the pandemic, the company started getting rid of cubicles and moving to rooms full of desks and you just find somewhere to sit. But they don't have enough places to sit for everyone so if you don't get here early, you just end up sitting on the floor or wandering around. It is crazy how much lost productivity we are experiencing.
- mike_hock 3y ago> sitting on the floor What the fuck?!
- irrational 3y agoHR frowns on that.
- QuiDortDine 3y agoYeah I'm about to be harmed by my working conditions
- gverrilla 3y agoI had a friend reporting a similar situation in the big consultancy firm he works for. There would be more workers than available seats. He said they would do it to make people get to the office BEFORE their working hours. Dark patterns all around.
- coldpie 3y agoBuddy, why on Earth are you still working there?
- irrational 3y agoReally good benefits. Just in terms of vacation, we get 11 vacation days a year, a paid week off in the summer, paid Fridays off in the summer, 6 week paid sabbatical every 5 years, and 8 hours of paid time off every pay period (26 times a year) that we can bank and roll over from year to year.
- digging 3y agoI can do my job equally well in-person or remotely, but that's because I don't connect to my team. I started here before the pandemic and we never really clicked in a way that made in-person collaboration happen. Whereas in my previous role, going remote would have had a negative effect, because we liked talking to each other and working with each other. I believe that on that team our online communication would have been more and better-quality than what I have now, but still less collaborative than in-person.
- paulddraper 3y ago> some jobs really really don't require much if any collaboration Yes, some jobs don't. > tons of people are here now, but there isn't room for them Well that's stupid.