StreetsofBeige
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Maybe because they realized that WFH allows them to save a small fortune in gas prices, saves them 1-2 hours a day from not commuting, gives them flexibility to do stuff at the house at break time, allows them to save on food by eating at home, saves them from interacting with annoying co-workers, all while still doing their jobs properly...should I keep going?
Also, EVERYONE knows that the "one day per week" will quickly turn into 3 days per week, and eventually into "everyone back to the office full time".
Since covid We also had a wfh policy that just recently became a "you can come back to the office of you want".
I don't wanna go back because of the reasons you said. My work has considerably improved as I'm not a morning person at all and we're now allows to work whenever we want. I work mostly in the evenings now. No pointless meetings to take part in, no loud crammed offices. I can work on my own terms. Motivation feels like it doubled for me. If they were to demand ppl back in office, I think many would protest. We even hired so many new pplin the pandemic, i don't think we'd all fit into the offices as they are at the same time rn.
WFH is one of the best things that came out of covid and I hope it's here to stay as long as it takes no impact on company finances by means of less or worse work.
Workers seemed to have no problem coming in 5 days a week before covid. It's not hard to come back one day per week. But that's called entitlement.We had a meeting this week about forcing everyone back to the office 3 days a week, every few weeks. There was over 350 angry comments down in the chat. People are not happy at all, as many of us were hired during the pandemic, and have never been to the office yet. Plus you still have some people panicking about getting sick, people who work out of state and can't commute 4 hours to work every day. It's really getting people angry.
People slack off all the time, and because people work weird hours you cant even get hold of the person half the time because Outlook says their name has a yellow dot saying "Away for 4 hours" and it's 2 pm in the afternoon. If someone has a totally lone wolf job that has nothing to do with other people, then sure WFH and work at midnight if you want. Not all jobs are like that. Mine involves getting hold of people for an answer (and it can involve lots of departments), not waiting till the next day or getting hold of them at 9 pm when their Outlook says its green so they are online working.
Have some respect for the workplace and coworkers working normal hours like before covid. Show up for meetings, be available, and dont disappear.
Things like safety precautions and enough space are non-issues because I'm not talking about a place with zero health policies or there's too many people hired for the desks. Situations like that are obviously different. I'm talking about apples to apples people and desks compared to pre-covid.
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