2 years remote now, record profits, great productivity, and all of the sudden our leadership went from “work from home, local remote is fine” to “everyone has to be hybrid, but you can chose to work from home if you want” to “everyone needs at least 2 set days in the office” all in the last two months.
I went into the new building today… 5'x4' cubes, with 1/2 height cube walls jammed into a building with almost no windows.
I'm a manager, I have a team of 12 people and I spend 4 – 6 hours in meetings all day, talking about projects and things that can't always be shared out, salaries, costs, etc.
I told my boss he could either move me to “locally remote” or leave me at hybrid, but I'd never work a single day in that cubefarm. If that was a problem, he could fire me on the spot. He then pointed out that his cube was in the same row as mine… he's a director at a multi-billion dollar company.
What the fuck are our executives thinking?
He told me he wasn't going to be working in the office either and that he'd leave all the managers at hybrid with 0 days scheduled in office. If that changes, I'm out.