Companies like this are not going to be around too long. High performing people are not going to subject themselves to long commutes, in-office distractions, terrible office spaces and incompetent managers hovering over them. They now have a choice. The only people you will get in the office for jobs that can easily be done from home are the people who have to because they're not top performers and don't have choices.
I'll not waste any more of my career in a windowless phone booth of an office with crappy furniture, poor lighting and constant interruptions that saps my time, productivity and patience. I'll risk contracting or going independent before I'll go back to a cube farm or one of those gawdawful open offices.
Maybe it's past time for this 68-year-old CEO to retire.
Id probably be more productive in the office but I know a lot of Professionals who have flourished since they could work remotely..Jamie Dimon is mean spirited fsggot
Thanks, although my suggestion was for the JP Morgan CEO to retire.
I'm in that "sweet spot" where I'm too young to retire, but too old for any youngsters to hire someone my age.
I'm actually enjoying work a lot more now that I'm remote. I built myself an awesome office shed. It's quiet, comfortable, well-lit and with decent furniture. I can run circles around the new guys between experience and my environment. I told my boss when I started that I needed very little care and feeding and he told me on my last review I took up the least amount of time of all of his staff to manage yet turn out consistent high quality work. I suspect I'm not even the highest paid.
That said, I could use a change but the job market is broken currently and my age doesn't help. Luckily I work for a telecom that was partially remote before Covid and we now have employees spread out over most of the country so there's no chance of hauling us back into the office.
No need to rant like a lunatic. Send a memo out or a zoom call and say: Effectively March 1st 2025, the expectation is that everyone return to work full time. You have two options: 1). You return to in person work 3/1/25 or 2). You resign. No need to raise a petition. It will not be honored. I have stated the terms of your continued employment. Anyone not returning March 1, 2025 at 09:00 a.m. is thereby terminated.
There is no way to measure production at home during business hours, most people I know that work from home usually only work 4 to 6 hours a day, occasionally they put in a full 8 hours, they call it flex hours, usually play pickleball till around 10 am, go home then at 4 their done.
I work harder at home than at any time in my career.
Mostly because I'm comfortable in an ergonomic environment and I'm not constantly distracted/interrupted.
I'm consistently #1 or #2 in all support metric categories in my whole department even though, unlike most of the support staff, around half my time is project work.
I'd be even more productive if my company wasn't so meeting-obsessed.
The company I work for is on the RTO kick. I suspect most of it is driven by the cities that gave them a property tax break in loo of the sales tax from all the employees forced into the downtowns.
C19 started remote work for so many, employees happier, production up, distractions down (except family, which are probably healthy interactions) and working more hours.
Now the cities threaten to tax the vacant buildings or bring back the employees with the sales tax dollars.
My company hates you so much you do not get an assigned desk. Everyday is "find a new spot". No leaving anything there like a jacket, umbrella, or dry pair of shoes. Complete psychological warfare on the employees.
I've always defended management in the past, but I'm starting to realize that a good number of upper management are incompetent and an equal number appear to be psychopaths.
Companies like this are not going to be around too long. High performing people are not going to subject themselves to long commutes, in-office distractions, terrible office spaces and incompetent managers hovering over them. They now have a choice. The only people you will get in the office for jobs that can easily be done from home are the people who have to because they're not top performers and don't have choices.
I'll not waste any more of my career in a windowless phone booth of an office with crappy furniture, poor lighting and constant interruptions that saps my time, productivity and patience. I'll risk contracting or going independent before I'll go back to a cube farm or one of those gawdawful open offices.
Maybe it's past time for this 68-year-old CEO to retire.
Responsible Professionals probably have a better output at home than the office.
Id probably be more productive in the office but I know a lot of Professionals who have flourished since they could work remotely..Jamie Dimon is mean spirited fsggot
Thanks, although my suggestion was for the JP Morgan CEO to retire.
I'm in that "sweet spot" where I'm too young to retire, but too old for any youngsters to hire someone my age.
I'm actually enjoying work a lot more now that I'm remote. I built myself an awesome office shed. It's quiet, comfortable, well-lit and with decent furniture. I can run circles around the new guys between experience and my environment. I told my boss when I started that I needed very little care and feeding and he told me on my last review I took up the least amount of time of all of his staff to manage yet turn out consistent high quality work. I suspect I'm not even the highest paid.
That said, I could use a change but the job market is broken currently and my age doesn't help. Luckily I work for a telecom that was partially remote before Covid and we now have employees spread out over most of the country so there's no chance of hauling us back into the office.
No need to rant like a lunatic. Send a memo out or a zoom call and say: Effectively March 1st 2025, the expectation is that everyone return to work full time. You have two options: 1). You return to in person work 3/1/25 or 2). You resign. No need to raise a petition. It will not be honored. I have stated the terms of your continued employment. Anyone not returning March 1, 2025 at 09:00 a.m. is thereby terminated.
Thanks, friend. So kind of you to say so.
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There is no way to measure production at home during business hours, most people I know that work from home usually only work 4 to 6 hours a day, occasionally they put in a full 8 hours, they call it flex hours, usually play pickleball till around 10 am, go home then at 4 their done.
I work harder at home than at any time in my career.
Mostly because I'm comfortable in an ergonomic environment and I'm not constantly distracted/interrupted.
I'm consistently #1 or #2 in all support metric categories in my whole department even though, unlike most of the support staff, around half my time is project work.
I'd be even more productive if my company wasn't so meeting-obsessed.
The company I work for is on the RTO kick. I suspect most of it is driven by the cities that gave them a property tax break in loo of the sales tax from all the employees forced into the downtowns.
C19 started remote work for so many, employees happier, production up, distractions down (except family, which are probably healthy interactions) and working more hours.
Now the cities threaten to tax the vacant buildings or bring back the employees with the sales tax dollars.
My company hates you so much you do not get an assigned desk. Everyday is "find a new spot". No leaving anything there like a jacket, umbrella, or dry pair of shoes. Complete psychological warfare on the employees.
I feel for you, Fren.
I've always defended management in the past, but I'm starting to realize that a good number of upper management are incompetent and an equal number appear to be psychopaths.
Chase paid 290 million in fines for their Epstein connections
Been remote for almost ten years. I will never go back.