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by cableshaft 1820 days ago
> 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.
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nly 1820 days ago
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

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thebean11 1820 days ago
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?

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