So my company just yesterday detailed it's Return to Office date, which is later next month. I was thinking about and brought it up to my higher ups, they either gave me a canned response or said there was nothing they could do at their level.
But I was thinking how we should be paid for our commute time (Not just my company, but everyone). Over the past two years we as a nation have shown that a lot of work can be done from anywhere, needing to be in a certain location is unnecessary. So a lot of these Return to Office pushes are not needed, but are wanted from people who are renting space and not getting a return (a bad business decision).
Also the socially accepted contract of what work is basically an individual trades time to a company for compensation, and now that we have proven we don't need to go into an office, this is now a request (really it always has been) is an ask from the company, I have to give them that 20 min, 30 min, 1 hour, however long trying to get somewhere I truly don't need to be. This is time we need to be compensated for because it's time we can't spend for ourselves. It's done for the company.
Now I'm posting this because I'm not to savvy on how to move forward with this, but like obviously we can't trust CEOs or companies to make good choices they're run by idiots babies, so we have to force them through complaints by employees and speaking to politicians to make it illegal to not compensate commute time. Any pointers on where to go from here?