IT has (left over from waterfall) some skills stronger in some states, so IT teams were reshuffled to get people from all over to balance them
So when we were allowed to return to the office, we were required to be there 3 days a week
With the spread out teams we had no in person meetings, we rarely saw team members even if they were on the same site
So we felt very much like the difference was to commute to do MS Teams meetings in the office on small screens three times a week, and have no commute and do MS Teams meetings on our own screens twice a week
We are lucky enough now to have full time work from home
Edit to add: management aren’t on the same agreement as the rest of us, they have individual contracts. Very few of them have access to remote work
I didn’t even mention it in my main post, but half my team is out of state and exempt from RTO.
So half of us commute into an overcrowded office and walk to a meeting room just to join a damn teams call. I hate being in person without a headset and having to yell at a room microphone and look at a smaller screen than I have at home.
Everything about it is inferior than what we had at home. It is harder to hear, harder to see, harder to communicate, takes longer to commute, longer to have to walk to meetings vs click join.
All the RTO seems like execs playing “everyone else is doing it, don’t want to be left behind” or something.
During COVID my workplace had to go fully remote
IT has (left over from waterfall) some skills stronger in some states, so IT teams were reshuffled to get people from all over to balance them
So when we were allowed to return to the office, we were required to be there 3 days a week
With the spread out teams we had no in person meetings, we rarely saw team members even if they were on the same site
So we felt very much like the difference was to commute to do MS Teams meetings in the office on small screens three times a week, and have no commute and do MS Teams meetings on our own screens twice a week
We are lucky enough now to have full time work from home
Edit to add: management aren’t on the same agreement as the rest of us, they have individual contracts. Very few of them have access to remote work
OMG right!?
I didn’t even mention it in my main post, but half my team is out of state and exempt from RTO.
So half of us commute into an overcrowded office and walk to a meeting room just to join a damn teams call. I hate being in person without a headset and having to yell at a room microphone and look at a smaller screen than I have at home.
Everything about it is inferior than what we had at home. It is harder to hear, harder to see, harder to communicate, takes longer to commute, longer to have to walk to meetings vs click join.
All the RTO seems like execs playing “everyone else is doing it, don’t want to be left behind” or something.