Last Friday we received an e-mail from the company CEO, announcing that the current home office policy is changing from the current 2 days from home/3 days at the office. A section of his e-mail follows:
“As a result, starting November 1st, we would like to inform you that we are adjusting our policy, allowing maximum one day of working from home per week going forward, with the boundary condition that the home office day cannot be a Monday or Friday and needs to be aligned with your manager.
We strongly believe that this measure will be a crucial step to maintaining our leadership position in a fast-paced environment.”
We had a global layoff recently and it seems that they're trying to increase productivity at all costs by bringing people into the office. I feel that they want to increase vigilance by keeping people on their watch.
Here goes my little personal rant about this: my work heavily depends on creating stuff. Creativity is the source of my work. How the f*ck companies want people to think out of the box if they want to put everyone inside the same box? The quality of my deliveries improved massively after I started working from home. Not only that, my life changed for better.
I always delivered the best and never cared about doing 110%. I enjoy the company, my manager and work in general. But after this, I'm taking a step back on purpose. There's no balance anymore.