I work in manufacturing and prior to and during covid my company had a corporate office and a manufacturing facility. Maybe 6 months or so ago the lease for the corporate building went up and corporate people became fully remote, with intentions to look at leasing another building.
Fast forward to now where we have cleared out warehouse floor space to put cubes and the CEO has gradually forced many remote people to be hybrid or fully on-site. I have always been an on sight person but what is most annoying is that lately the CEO will rail against remote people during meetings, and how they need to be onsight, but he is doing so while fork lifts are beeping over him. It is so noisy and incredibly difficult to concentrate when your desk is on a warehouse floor, yet he is completely disillusioned to the fact that people don't want to come onsight for that very reason.
This is only one aspect of the CEO's cost cutting measures that have led me to begin looking elsewhere. Has anyone else experienced their office downsizing but remote work been removed?