Been back in an office for a week after most of 3 years home. It's a bit of a bummer and I can totally see why someone with options would quit over it. I'm really hoping I can get back to one or two days home eventually.
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Return-to-office mandates are a pay cut if they aren't increasing compensation simultaneously.
I watched a news story on NBC a little while back that the city of Minneapolis was pressuring Target Corporate to return to the office to help boost the downtown economy.
Right up there with unlimited PTO as a secret haircut for employees
If I was mandated to go back to an office and I had u limited time off I would definitely be pushing it to the limit.
That's true, no matter how you look at it. For me, I wouldn't mind it for a small commute; say 30 to 40 miles round trip, and 3 to 4 days a week without much of a pay adjustment. But something that's going to add 2 hours to my work day anytime I go into the office? That's asking a lot.
Fortunately for me, I have a short commute so I don't have a huge travel burden. What gets really tricky/frustrating is when an employee was hired during the pandemic with the agreement between manager and employee that the employee would be remote. If their isn't formal writing in the contract, the employer could void that agreement and both the employee and manager are put in a bad situation (mainly bad for employee).
Problem is it isn't unlimited. Most companies put in the fine print "subject to management discretion". And I have seen management in different departments put limits on the employees of their departments. Pretty BS.
Don't disagree with the reasoning, or the other benefits working from home has. But playing devils advocate here, when people were working from home it was a pay increase. Just be careful using that as a reason to continue working from home.
I'd be pretty pissed if my company gave me a raise and then three years later cut my pay.
CycloneErik
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I'd be pretty pissed if my company gave me a raise and then three years later cut my pay.
I've dealt with that this year. It sucks.
sounds like principal with how they promote their big space to work in and collab in
U.S. employees spend $51 daily when they work full-time in office, study says
Employees in the U.S. who have returned to the office full-time are paying a lot to get there, a new study says. The annual “State of Work” report, conducted by videoconferencing company Owl Labs, …ktla.com
"“There’s no question” working from the office is “wildly more expensive” today than it was pre-pandemic, Frank Weishaupt, CEO of Owl Labs, a company that handles video-conferencing told CNBC."
While I agree with the general idea of it, that study is probably wildly biased.
Put the review you were going to do in-house and put it on Glassdoor or a similar external site.
I'm looking at other opportunities (as are many) and these reviews will help steer potential employees one way or another. There's companies that are worried about these.
I encourage everyone to voice their opinion and stand up for themself regarding working conditions. A company that refuses to acknowledge employee input is a company I don't want to work for or encourage others to work for.
Everything is wildly more expensive than pre-pandemic. Biased or not it's not an inaccurate statement.
Hey but engineers love big open spaces to work in where they can hear other people chat about the weather and chew with mouths open.
Okay, when WFH first started during Covid there were a lot of complaints that it cost the worker more. I was told I was wrong when I said it would save people money.
Now people are saying that office work is more expensive? I’m confused………
It was in Covid threads here. A LOT of b’ing then. Big one was the extra 20/month for better wifi and they said the company should buy them new routers, screens and other computer equipment because their stuff at home wasn’t as nice.
