My employer is trying to enforce 60% return to office, insinuating that there will be repercussions for those who don't follow this mandate.
Are your employers also trying to enforce people returning to office? And what are your thoughts/observations from your fellow colleagues?
Edit: I personally don't mind going into the office, but interested to know how others are feeling. Added poll:
All corporate initiatives inevitably die out as soon as they're fully implemented and person in charge got their bonus or promotion.
So the only correct behavior here is to enthusiastically comply right away and start sabotaging it in couple of months, when no one cares anymore.
Office politics 101.
Now that is some top class cynicism
Covid maybe in endemic stage but not over.
I dont work in the office but family members do. The moment they started going to office, almost everyone had covid again. Those taking public transport should not be forced so soon..
Maybe in a year
Being forced to come in to office a couple of days a week.
It's rediculous as I'm in Melbourne my manager is NZ WFH, some of my team are in Adelaide, Brisbane and Queensland.
The Adelaide team member is forced to go into the Adelaide office when they are the only on in the office.
I had a lot of respect and pride for my employer during Covid but they have erroded it quickly.
I'll be asking to reduce hours and work less days to make up for the time I lose driving in to the office. If that fails I'll be looking for another job even if it's a significant pay cut.
I moved further away from the office during the years of WFH so have no desire to start driving back.
Are you going to ask for a reduced salary due to salarys being somewhat linked to work location and costs of living and transport in those places?
are they linked or is your output and value of work the justification for salary ?
It's more likely company wide decision and your manager simply implementing an order. There's an easy way to get it turned in your favor.
On days you're in the office you work 8 to 5 and zero out of hours interactions, no emails, no phone calls, no matter how urgent they are. When working from home you can be semi-present at work for the duration of commute you did not have to do. Quite soon your immediate manager will understand that you work more from home and let it go.
I'm supposed to be back to 3 days a week in the office. I'm doing 1 to 2 days in the office per week. Nobody seems to mind. Then again it's known that I have a toddler and aged parents to look after, so it's assumed there's a lot going on. I could go in more though. I just prefer to work from home. Probably helps that I've worked there 14 years.
Some people will be salty reading this…
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/wor…
my belief is bosses are more likely to be extroverts who rely on face-to-face intimidation to get what they want and like to feel the ego aggrandizement of being surrounded by subordinates they can metaphorically push around.
WFH can leave this type feeling bereft and WTF - I'm not feeling good about myself - where are my slaves ?
Isnt that how they are brought up?
Private school boy, heavily sports driven, leadership groups, business at Uni, Put mid level straight at 23
Already decided I will sell the house to finance early retirement before I go back to the bosses. I'm happy to take lower pay in exchange for no commuting. On the plus side wfh helps solve many of our societal problems. Helps with climate change, congestion and overcrowding, family life, mental illness, ageing population, birth rate, gender gaps, transport infrastructure the list is endless.
Exactly, I’ve those tech skills so for the time being I can fob-off any calls to come into the office.
By the time things turn to the employees advantage, I’ll be gone.