As Covid started to ramp up in the halcyon days of 2020 my place of work went to mixed home/office working.
Since then my department has had a record breaking year of 2021, churning out more products than the fully on site shop floor can keep up with. This even reached the point that we had to give the shop floor workers a hand for 8 weeks at the end of last year as they couldn't keep up. So our department closed for 8 weeks and we're still ahead.
To compound the issue they are supposedly a “green company” this means that whenever “return to office” is mentioned the company ethos and its conflict with having staff drive to work for no reason is raised. Often by me.
Now they've taken to lying about productivity and communication. Claiming that we're “dossing about” and “making errors” their evidence for this is drawings submitted that have fewer errors than the ones released in previous years and teams log-on times (before now there was no requirement to be logged on to teams during your entire day at work). They even bought up a day that I wasn't logged onto teams until 12pm and said “what were you doing?” I was in the office printing drawings, I'd clocked in at 8am. We're on flexible hours anyway.
The next approach I see coming is setting impossible deadlines then using those failed deadlines to justify bringing us in.
The determination to be less efficient is baffling.