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by softwaredoug 929 days ago
It’s an issue about this for sure. But also affordability, time to commute, rearrange lives, etc and other burdens to go into an office that the C-suite doesn’t contend with.

RTO/WFH becomes kind of obvious given a certain distance to the office.

If I live 10-20 mins from office, I probably go all the time. If I live 90+ minutes a visit to the office upends my life.

Only a small subset of people live close to offices. In part because cities have been poorly designed and housing costs are insane right now.

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My company is forcing a one day a week RTO (badge scan requirement). I have been firm with them. My day will not be any longer and travel time is coming out of it. At home I get on at 8am and sign off at 5pm. So on my RTO day I leave home at 8am, travel to the office, scan and take a meeting or two, then head home. I still sign off at 5pm. All told, they lost an hour plus of productivity from me.

All around it's so obnoxious. Ya, my CEO doesn't mind RTO because he has grown kids, has a driver, has a home chef, etc...

I always find it fascinating the amount of large scale time waste corps are willing to commit themselves to just to prove to themselves that they are the ones running the show.

Ammoral out of touch douches like this deserve all their workers to quit and show them they are nothing without us making them all their money.