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Amazon CEO tells staff ‘it’s probably not going to work out’ unless they visit office three days a week
(www.theguardian.com)
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Justification of office size is becoming an issue for large corporations and the top leadership doesn't like it. They say seeing an empty office has a demoralizing effect on those whose jobs require them to be in the office while teleworkers get to be home. Additionally what's the point of having a big office if no one is there to see you in it. It's all about the top earners wanting to feel important.
When COVID hits, I was in a software company, ~300 people, who were there daily for years, as everyone in this kind of company around the world... Then we worked from home, I went there after 2 or 3 weeks to take a computer/monitor, there was maybe 10 people in the building, max. And it was like this for 3 years, I then quit and went there to bring back the computer/monitor, still thousands sqft of office, empty. Now work for another company 100 miles from me, remote work for life it will be for me.
Make a skatepark.
"I didn't get a good deal so fuck the people who did" is misplacing the anger. If they can't retain staff because some people have to work on-site, maybe get people who want to do that. Those people exist.
What a long winded way to disprove the entire point you're making. You're the little crab in the bucket pulling the other crabs down not the hero you see yourself as. If you're that unhappy with what happened did you ever bring this up to management? Put any effort into it at all? Because according to the info you've provided so far it sounds like all you did was silently seethe and now want to take all that pent up anger out on your coworkers for finding what works for them and the company as agreed upon by both parties. Do you have this same amount of energy for other people's salaries//benefits packages? Clearly with the attitude displayed no one should be making more than what YOU decide they should make regardless of any other agreements with the management and worker.
Your solution is putting the onus on your coworkers to make your work life less "isolated", not on making your employer update your job description and pay to account for new responsibilities, hire someone for all the random crap that was getting saddled on you, or give you the freedom they had. They and people criticizing you for that aren't the crab in the bucket impeding worker solidarity.
How do you have any more guarantees that she's at her desk in the office and not busy with something else than you do by pinging her on Teams?
This is probably the dumbest take of the entire thing. Let me just leave the conference room, go see if Susie is available, maybe wait for her to finish something, then go back to the conference room and have no clue what I missed. Vs, ping Susie on Teams while still listening in on the meeting. She then joins the meeting without having to get up or anything.
Maybe it's because I'm in a UX team and you hit a nerve, but "pull them into a quick meeting" summarizes my contempt for office life. The lack of boundaries and constant distraction was relentless.
I've met many Susies who, like me, dreaded the "Hey Suze, you got a minute?" because everyone vaguely recalls that we've worked on something related to their project. It was not as valuable or productive as you think. Pinging the person on Teams and not expecting an instant reply was the right thing to do, even back in the old days.
You sound like someone who's stuck in 1985 IBM world. There are tons of companies out there that literally have no official in location and no office and have been around for decades... saying you're unable to do collaboration work is bullshit.
Yeah no one likes assholes that show up to your office without pinging you, it's a dick move.
I'm guessing you're middle management and are seeing your bullshit job disappearing. You sound like it and you sound like all you did was micro manage people as well.
Remote work is cheaper on the company, has better morale for it's workers, collaboration is just as good if not better, and you don't have just local talent to pull from.