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.
Admittedly, I did not read the article, but those numbers sound realistic if you factor fuel, parking, maintenance costs, etc. I have a 100% WFH job with a very small company (<15 people). I don't mind the idea of getting back to some office time, personally. Our CEO is known for making decisions without consulting anyone on the team and we just have to react. I've heard murmurings that he's looking at office space in Ames. That's a 100-mile commute for me round-trip. At the federal rate of $0.655/mile, it would cost me around $13,000/year. It's $5,000/year in fuel alone. If he goes forward with that, I will have a hard time accepting it.
Return-to-office mandates are a pay cut if they aren't increasing compensation simultaneously.
Right up there with unlimited PTO as a secret haircut for employees
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.Return-to-office mandates are a pay cut if they aren't increasing compensation simultaneously.
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.
Return-to-office mandates are a pay cut if they aren't increasing compensation simultaneously.
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.
sounds like principal with how they promote their big space to work in and collab inIt kind of reminds me of the place in Des Moines that always portrayed itself as fun place to work. "We have a free keg on Friday night" "We order in free pizza". Listen *****, I have no urge to be working at 7pm on a Friday night for free Michelob Ultra. I think this may have been Business Solver but not 100%. I just looked at their Glassdoor and it looks like at least they allow their employees to work from home.
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
Put the review you were going to do in-house and put it on Glassdoor or a similar external site.Nationwide also did away with their surveys.
My company has not yet, despite low-ish scores the past few years.
Everything is wildly more expensive than pre-pandemic. Biased or not it's not an inaccurate statement."“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.
sounds like principal with how they promote their big space to work in and collab in
"“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.
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.Return-to-office mandates are a pay cut if they aren't increasing compensation simultaneously.
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.Who was saying this?