We're returning to the office. 3 times a weeks on days that have been chosen by our department head.
Our employees get paid shit. $19-20 in a major city (think LA, NYC big) whereas a studio will cost you at least $1000-1400. They get minimal raise (2%), shitty benefits etc.
Now, they have to go back into the office for “collaboration”. One of our employees asked for some accommodation as they only have one vehicle that is shared by other family members AND they have a second job. All they asked was to have their “in office” days switched to other days.
We could have accommodated this easily but we chose not to. All we had to was just literally change her schedule. The CEO of the company even makes a point in her email to accommodate but still, my boss CHOSE NOT to. Because apparently moving this employee's schedule would be not “fair” to others and cause too much “headache”. To top it all off, my boss made this comment “It's their choice to have a second job. they need to figure it out.”
Note my boss and their boss make somewhere $150-200k + bonus.
There have been, in my opinion, a lot of other degrading comments that were made about our ground level employees. It makes me uncomfortable and frankly, infuriated. I used to be one of them. To have these people treated/exploited like this pisses me off.
We have had 10 people resigned in the past 3 months because of low pay and RTO. Some of those people were THE BEST people we had.
Needless to say, I'm looking for other job.