If you're a fed, are you planning to quit or go back?

[Anonymous]

Knowing EM and VR want attrition, curious what everyone's plans are? I don't know anyone who is planning to go back 5 days. Everyone is either moving jobs, planning sabbatical etc. Wondering what the impact will be...

[Anonymous]

SEC. Quitting. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll drag it out if I can but not going back. Helps that I hate working at the SEC anyway so no love lost - not gonna feel like I lost a great job or whatever.

[Anonymous]

I predict a lot of people will take FMLA to buy time.

[Anonymous]

Going back. We can't live on my spouse's teaching salary. I'll suck it up for as long as I can, there isn't another option.

[Anonymous]

At 5 days a week RTO I'd find something else. There's plenty of jobs that pay more and offer 2 or 3 days of TW.

[Anonymous]

I'll go back 5 days. I live close to the office and I'm not old or rich enough to retire. My job is interesting, decently paid, and not too hard. I would hope for a very casual dress code though...we aren't public facing at all.

[Anonymous]

I've been back 5 days/week since the building reopened after covid. I don't like working at home.

[Anonymous]

Of course going back, it's not the end of the world. It won't last forever - little by little, management at every level will make exception after exception until we're back to where we are now - hybrid. I know someone at Amazon HQ who says that WFH is still management discretion, despite the media hype about 5 days/week in office. Very hard to hold to that over the long term, and even senior managers like flexibility too. Just be patient and endure for a little while. This too shall pass. It will pass especially fast when all these feds coming and going at the same time cause massive gridlock in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I predict a lot of people will take FMLA to buy time.

You realize you can’t just “take” FMLA right? And if you lie about a health condition to get time off you’re committing federal fraud, so good luck with that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course going back, it's not the end of the world. It won't last forever - little by little, management at every level will make exception after exception until we're back to where we are now - hybrid. I know someone at Amazon HQ who says that WFH is still management discretion, despite the media hype about 5 days/week in office. Very hard to hold to that over the long term, and even senior managers like flexibility too. Just be patient and endure for a little while. This too shall pass. It will pass especially fast when all these feds coming and going at the same time cause massive gridlock in DC.

Except Amazon has a vested interest in keeping talent. The whole objective of DOGE is to kneecap government by forcing workers to leave.

[Anonymous]

I'm not quitting and giving them what they want.

[Anonymous]

I think most people will go back while looking for other jobs. Foolish to just quit...unless you literally can not do it due to childcare or ?? I also think the space issue is real. It will take a while. My office was always 1 day a week in. Are there more floors available to lease in our building . Would we be moving? Our last move took a year. And we are just one little organization.

[Anonymous]

Going back and hoping for a VERA

[Anonymous]

I’ll go back but flex my hours. There’s no way I’m sitting in my office until 5:30/6 5 days a week. If they take away maxiflex then forget it. Currently we allow people in our office to leave early and continue TW from home if they have long commutes or need flexibility for kid after school activities. Most of the working world allows flexibility. If the govt becomes so backwards about this with E and V in charge, I’ll leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think most people will go back while looking for other jobs. Foolish to just quit...unless you literally can not do it due to childcare or ?? I also think the space issue is real. It will take a while. My office was always 1 day a week in. Are there more floors available to lease in our building . Would we be moving? Our last move took a year. And we are just one little organization.

Yes they literally cannot fit a tenth of my office in the building. We'll completely collapse. We're a pro business organization too.