[alexdias]

> I’m honestly perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH.

Yes, aggressive measures such as:

-Allowing employees to apply to be permanent remote employees

-Allowing 2 WFH days per week

[cableshaft]

> Allowing employees to apply to be permanent remote employees

We'll see how this plays out, but I'm expecting this to be just a ploy to keep people from leaving right away and 95%+ requests to be remote will ultimately be denied.

[nly]

The 2 day WFH thing will fade away as well.

My company has put those optional 2 days WFH to TLs to arrange amongst their teams, with the expectation that the whole team will have the same schedule.

Basically if your TL doesn't care or want you to WFH, or the team can't agree on days, you're done.

It'll be a major inconvenience and staff will ultimately not see the benefits of full WFH with 3, so it won't last.

I think there will be increased churn once the "wait and see" crowd clears

[thebean11]

As someone who's company is doing exactly that (albeit with only 1 day per week) I can't see that happening here.

Agreeing on a day between 6 people isn't that hard (disagreement can just be solved by the TL making the decision) and once the policy exists it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

Forcing everyone to come in seems like a huge political blunder for a TL, why would they do that?

[gliese1337]

...which policies were only implemented after significant employee pushback over the originally-announced "everyone will be going back to the office full-time" plans.

[cmrdporcupine]

Google never announced anything like that. The moment they started talking about return to office there was talk of flexibility, lower capacities, and WFH. And in reality WFH at least 1 or 2 days a week was always a possibility, at least in my Google office.

[pc86]

Anything but allowing permanent WFH without any approval, never requiring any on-site visits, and never requiring the camera is "aggressive" to a lot of people for some reason.

[r00t4ccess]

The policy for applying for wWFH at the FAANG I work at involves seniority and VP approval.