I'm pretty sure nearly everyone who was WFH in my area had to return to the office because my morning commute went from 25-30m to 35-40m. Doesn't sound like much but the traffic has gotten so busy the long way is faster most mornings.

I’m just glad that so far my job has held at 2 days in office. It still sucks and I’m way less productive in office than I was when I was WFH full time, but it could be worse.

I think this issue does reflect on bad management. They don’t know how to monitor their team’s output, justify their existence or curb bad employees without being in the same room. That’s on them, not WFH.

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If the work gets done, then congrats there are no problems

I work so much more efficiently at home. I'm mostly remote. Come in a couple days a month. The days I go in are trying to zone out all the office distractions. Also I have to use a hotel docking station setup that I will always have an problem with at least something about it. A sizeable portion of my day is just getting setup and into a work state. I work in software development with cloud platforms. Going into the office I know I'm gonna get fuck all done. Also the Internet is way worse on site.

However there is a few people on my team that do fuck all everyday. I keep hearing rumors that they are gonna make us come back. It's frustrating because you know the few ones that are taking advantage are gonna be an easy excuse for management to call us in.

Hey Boss -

Ever since TV remote was invented, you don't even walk up to the TV to change the channel - why the fuck you need to call us back to the office and breath over our necks? Unless you are a pervert (a lot of you indeed are) - you don't need to stare at our faces (or our asses) to assess our work, learn to embrace the zoom age !

You reportee (who is still hanging around because the pay is okay, I can work from home, and don't have to bear your shitface every morning)

I am going to the movies.

translates to: micromanage, take credit for the success of the Employee, and blame for the Employee for the Bosses idiot decisions.

Won't anyone think of the people in positions of authority?!

Meanwhile, how often do you see stories about the dehumanization and police harassment of the human beings our society banishes to our innumerable tent cities to die of exposure for the crime of being sub-optimal capital batteries?

Shit like this is why I laugh when politicians and oligarchs show concern for things that "threaten our way of life." As if our society with core values of greed and sociopathy has anything of actual value worth maintaining.

From the perspective of the bottom 80%, let this capitalist dystopia collapse into dust. From the perspective of those homeless Americans left to die by our supposedly ethical nation, it'll just be another tuesday, but maybe one where they won't be harassed or killed by law enforcement simply for seeking shelter from the elements.

Boo hoo fuck them

Uh-huh... Mmm hmmm... Ok, decent read that brings up some interesting points from the perspective of the employer. Employers need to monitor, but monitoring destroys morale. Do you propose a solution?

Invest in middle managers as connecting leaders between front-line employees and upper management and encourage them to work one-on-one with their direct reports to outline clear workflows and expectations.

FUUUUUU-

Skill issue.

Dumbasses don't know how to do proper metrics.

I'm personally fine with going into the office but if you're job can be done from home and you are just as productive, work from home.