goofytinkerbell
Tinkerbell
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- Jul 5, 2009
We're also fighting, because we find productivity is lower in the office. We have jobs that require concentration, and interruptions reset that. When we're at home, we can ignore messages until we finish what we're in the middle of and then check them. It's the same thing for us, we're being brought back in just because someone in upper management equates butts in seats with productivity. That's absolutely not the case in a software environment. They're used to a manufacturing environment, when if you're not meeting sales targets you just crank out more product. It doesn't work that way for us at all. We do NOT get paid well, but most of us are long term employees. We don't want to start over somewhere else, we want to make the work environment better. They want to go backwards.Wow, that's rough. I'm sorry.When we got notice we had to be back in the office at least 3 days a week I think they at least gave us a few weeks notice. A lot of us are still fighting being back in the office since it's not fair throughout our business. Some departments are still working fully remote. Some people in some departments are only in the office 1 day week. While some of us still have to be there 3-days for absolutely no good reason at all other than "because I said so." I'm unfortunately in a department that has to be in 3-days a week and i'm definitely not happy about it. Granted I haven't been happy with my company/job as a whole in awhile. My issue is that I get paid really well and I have a crap ton of time off which makes it really difficult to want to actually leave. We're currently in the middle of negotiations for raises (among other things) so we'll see what happens with that. I haven't taken finding a new job completely off the table though.
As an aside, we worked from home all during covid and were more productive and made more money than pre-covid.
Pre-covid, our environment had some remote, some hybrid and some in-office. Now they want everyone in the office full time except for the ones who don't have an office within a 3-hour commute (excluding traffic, just driving time). They're also pushing everyone with doctors notes to get new ones, in an attempt to force them back too.
We work hard, and there's always someone to answer. But we can ignore them when we're in the middle of a task that requires a lot of concentration, which is something you can't do in the office.
In your case, if you have new people quitting because of the workload, that indicates an issue with how much work you're putting on people. Our office also puts unrealistic expectations on people and we're now hitting the point that it's hard to keep new hires. The longer term employees had it happen more slowly, kind of like the frog who sits in the water as it heats up. By the time the frog realizes he's being boiled alive, it's too late, but the new frog dumped into the already boiling water tries to get away. If you're working too much, you should be scaling back and setting the expectation that they need to hire more people. I'm guilty of it as well, but we're quickly learning that the company will just take advantage of the wage savings and burn through their employees, eventually replacing us with cheaper new hires who don't have the same level of knowledge.
if you have a costco gift card for any amount you can purchase in warehouse at warehouse prices (online there's a bit of an up charge). every few months i buy a handful of $10 cards for my oldest-a membership is not worth it for him but there are a few products he likes there (and gets his glasses there). he uses 1 single gift card as the initial payment source on each trip and pays the rest with cash or debit. i wish they would offer the option to add a 3rd household member for an up charge on their memberships-i think allot of people would avail themselves of it.
