Fidelity Ends Hybrid Work, Requires US Staff in Office Five Days a Week

[Anonymous]

My firm took a private equity model towards cutting cost and didn't renegotiate our office lease so now we are all forced to be remote because we are a "virtual office".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My firm took a private equity model towards cutting cost and didn't renegotiate our office lease so now we are all forced to be remote because we are a "virtual office".

Better that than being forced to come in just to fill space in an office building the company can’t get out of.

[Anonymous]

More and more companies are moving to 5 days in office. I suspect this will continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m also a fed who is back in 5 days a week with no leniency for sick days. It was horrendous at first but now it’s fine. We’ve all started making work friends again, collaborating more, eating lunch together, in person meetings are way better than teams meetings. I think most of us wish we were 50% telework (or even one day a week!) but it’s been okay. I’m surprised I’m even saying this

Yuck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last two comments are Stockholm Syndrome.

Five days a week in the office sucks. Agree this is mostly to try to get people to quit so they don’t have to pay. Have no doubt that the big portfolio managers will have no problem being MIA on Fridays while everyone else miserably marches in.

100 percent. The posts are just confirmation of Dostoeyevsky's statement that a human being can get used to anything (prison, pain, tortured suffering)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a Fed who has been back 5 days for past 14 months, I have no sympathy. Remote and hybrid work are being phased out.

That's pretty short sighted. A fed might care because (1) private industry standards can set precedent and policies can change with new administrations and (2) industry decision making impacts more than where a worker sits.

I am this PP. Your comment doesn’t make sense because a new admin could change the current anti-remote work policy. But it’s speculative and private industry didn’t set tone for prior federal telework/remote work policies-the federal unions fought for this.

Second, no one in private industry came to our aid when we were being massacred last year. So I have no sympathy. Too bad so sad!

How the heck would private industry have come "to your aid" during the DOGE mess?

I am in the private sector and a lot of us were very concerned about fed RTO because yes what other workplaces do impacts the norms for the whole job market. i truly can't believe the myopia in just thinking it doesn't matter what the broader trends are.

Whatever the norms are in 2028 will impact what the next Adm does about telework, hybrid, etc.

[Anonymous]

Effers.

[Anonymous]

I have no problem with five days in the office. But zero situational telework is nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last two comments are Stockholm Syndrome.

Five days a week in the office sucks. Agree this is mostly to try to get people to quit so they don’t have to pay. Have no doubt that the big portfolio managers will have no problem being MIA on Fridays while everyone else miserably marches in.

100 percent. The posts are just confirmation of Dostoeyevsky's statement that a human being can get used to anything (prison, pain, tortured suffering)

+1. So much of modern employment feels like a humiliation ritual. How much are you willing to degrade yourself and grovel and for how small of a wage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last two comments are Stockholm Syndrome.

Five days a week in the office sucks. Agree this is mostly to try to get people to quit so they don’t have to pay. Have no doubt that the big portfolio managers will have no problem being MIA on Fridays while everyone else miserably marches in.

100 percent. The posts are just confirmation of Dostoeyevsky's statement that a human being can get used to anything (prison, pain, tortured suffering)

+1. So much of modern employment feels like a humiliation ritual. How much are you willing to degrade yourself and grovel and for how small of a wage?

Being asked by your employer to go into the office is a humiliation ritual? It's called work for a reason and you're paid to do it. Please tell me that you're a troll.

[Anonymous]

So ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last two comments are Stockholm Syndrome.

Five days a week in the office sucks. Agree this is mostly to try to get people to quit so they don’t have to pay. Have no doubt that the big portfolio managers will have no problem being MIA on Fridays while everyone else miserably marches in.

100 percent. The posts are just confirmation of Dostoeyevsky's statement that a human being can get used to anything (prison, pain, tortured suffering)

+1. So much of modern employment feels like a humiliation ritual. How much are you willing to degrade yourself and grovel and for how small of a wage?

Being asked by your employer to go into the office is a humiliation ritual? It's called work for a reason and you're paid to do it. Please tell me that you're a troll.

Not PP but yes, it is when it is done for no other reason than to make your life worse, in the hope that some people will quit and help cut costs.

Work can happen at home too. I’m sure you’re one of those people for whom it is a foreign concept but in modern professional services jobs it is not necessary for the work to happen in the same physical location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Fed who has been back 5 days for past 14 months, I have no sympathy. Remote and hybrid work are being phased out.

Defense contractor and I am the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last two comments are Stockholm Syndrome.

Five days a week in the office sucks. Agree this is mostly to try to get people to quit so they don’t have to pay. Have no doubt that the big portfolio managers will have no problem being MIA on Fridays while everyone else miserably marches in.

100 percent. The posts are just confirmation of Dostoeyevsky's statement that a human being can get used to anything (prison, pain, tortured suffering)

+1. So much of modern employment feels like a humiliation ritual. How much are you willing to degrade yourself and grovel and for how small of a wage?

Being asked by your employer to go into the office is a humiliation ritual? It's called work for a reason and you're paid to do it. Please tell me that you're a troll.

Not PP but yes, it is when it is done for no other reason than to make your life worse, in the hope that some people will quit and help cut costs.

Work can happen at home too. I’m sure you’re one of those people for whom it is a foreign concept but in modern professional services jobs it is not necessary for the work to happen in the same physical location.

Of trust me there are a LOT of other reasons to require in office work attendance. I'll help you out with them..List all the reasons you want to work from home:
1. You can do laundry (this is NOT productive paid work)
2. You can watch your kids (this is not work and you are not being paid by your company to do this)
3. You can make dinner (you are not getting paid to do this)
4. You can get a workout in (not getting paid for this)

All the employers know whats been going on and they want it to stop and they want you to work the entire day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our company allows M and F telework and Tuesday -Thursday at work. They probably should change that. People start up slowly on a Monday and leave early on Fridays. The company is not getting an honest 40 hours. It’s obvious.

40 hours lol. I wish I only worked 40 hours.