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by sharemywin 1096 days ago
I just don't know how you get the Genie back in the bottle. Will employees come back in eventually probably if forced to enough. will smaller companies see how much of a benefit WFH is and use it as a hiring advantage I would imagine.

I wonder if people forced to come back into the office are working a ton of free hours for the company. I can't really stay late because I have that commute now.

And every time someone from management sent an email or tried to have a zoom I'd have a hard time not asking in the zoom why it wasn't an in person meeting?

And I could see people spending a whole lot of time "collaborating" too.

Maybe there needs to be a blog post 50 passive aggressive ways to get back at your employer for making you come back into the office.

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Employees should start associating in-office required days with just talking about a four day work week (which is probably another anathema thing to management).
Well, assuming an hour traveling in and an hour out from the office, that’s another 8-hour day. So yeah, talking about a four-day work week is completely reasonable.
There was an article in Salon or Slate last year where they asked people what it would take to get them back in the office, and the universal answer was on-site free day care for their kids.
>And every time someone from management sent an email or tried to have a zoom I'd have a hard time not asking in the zoom why it wasn't an in person meeting?

I love this as malicious compliance in RTO workplaces. Brilliant.

1944 was a bit premature for blog posts, but see https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26184/pg26184.txt#:~:te... (§5.11)