Heavy-handedly forcing us back into the office
Heavy-handedly forcing us back into the office
Lower-level management is generally respectful of your time and work-life balance.
Despite an increase in productivity and happiness from going fully remote, they are now forcing us back into the office. I managed to go the whole pandemic without catching COVID, then the most predictable thing in the world happened once I started going back in.
They claimed going back in was to promote "hallway conversations," which is a downright insulting excuse to make to engineers.
Treat your employees like the professional, college-educated people they are and just say you want us to go in to follow a fad.
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