So long story semi short. I started with my employer just over a year and a half ago. I was hired as a remote worker under the agreement I would go into the office for big quarterly meetings or if there was a major need. To put into context I lived an hour and 20 min of wall to wall traffic from my employers office. New company comes and buys my employer. They now say I can work 1 day a week from home and expect me to sign the document saying as much.
To put into context this whole scenario.
1. They took away quarterly bonuses which is a loss of $7600/year.
2. Their office is an hour and 40 min away. That's an added 200 min of commuting each day. Or a full month of my life each year.
3. Between gas, higher insurance, and tolls that's an added cost of over $4k.
4. I work in IT 100% of my job is dealing with servers and security in AWS and Azure and my team works out of three other offices. There is zero purpose for me to work out of the office.
5. They have a use it or lose it policy for PTO/Vac and told everyone Friday. Previous company had rollover. Now everyone has to try and use up to two weeks over the next three weeks with zero chance of it being approved.
So equivalent to $11,600+ pay cut, loss of almost 700 hours of my life in a car to commute for zero reason…gee I wonder why this place has a 25% retention rate for employees from acquired companies. Guess I'll be looking for a new job in the new year.