What is going to happen to the RTO?

[Anonymous]

RTO is improving collaboration and helping to build a department culture. Productivity is up since less are cheating on their hours. RTO is here to stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RTO is improving collaboration and helping to build a department culture. Productivity is up since less are cheating on their hours. RTO is here to stay.

Whatever you say, Elmo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are still agencies doing DRP. They won't ease up on RTO until all of those programs get enough people and probably not until all of the RIFs are completed. I think we have a long way to go.

Everything will be done by Sep, this has always been the goal. RIFs will be like a wave by April May.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RTO is improving collaboration and helping to build a department culture. Productivity is up since less are cheating on their hours. RTO is here to stay.

Are you getting your collaboration ideas from commercials? Do you think people are really more energized and productive after commuting 3 hours a day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RTO is improving collaboration and helping to build a department culture. Productivity is up since less are cheating on their hours. RTO is here to stay.

Lmao. Share your agency and position then. Is it King of DOGE?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are still agencies doing DRP. They won't ease up on RTO until all of those programs get enough people and probably not until all of the RIFs are completed. I think we have a long way to go.

Everything will be done by Sep, this has always been the goal. RIFs will be like a wave by April May.

PP here and Inthink you're right about most of this being done by September. I think it will take some time beyond that before flexibilities return.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your "job" can be done at home, then it will likely be put on the chopping block and outsourced or eliminated.

Technology has defeated those jobs.

Eh. Everyone I know with professional jobs in the private sector can do their job at home a day or two a week. If being able to use a computer and email in your home office is the line then no job should be safe.

Those jobs will be replaced. Really it will return to physical labor jobs being the only secure ones, talking more complicated physical labor jobs, not robotic factory assembly line ones that robots can do.

It's so weird that you cling to a narrative that is both false and grim. A happy fantasy I would understand, but trying to push an idea that is bad for everyone and also demonstrably untrue is really odd.
I would love to know what you did for a living before you retired.

You're delusional. If AI can replace nurses, doctors, and lawyers, what makes you think your precious white collar job won't fall victim to AI? Even IT professionals are losing jobs to AI.

AI cannot replace nurses, doctors, and lawyers.

DP but sure it can, and already is in the stages of doing so.

Of those, nurses would be the least likely to be replaced, as they are doing physical labor that cannot be done by a computer, or even robotics at this point in time.

Doctors can easily be replaced by machines/booths that a patient is hooked up to, scanned, and a full physical exam performed on in just minutes, much better than a whole team of doctors could do in weeks. Virtual diagnosing is already common among the profession, and just the start of that trend.

Lawyer are the MOST susceptible to being replaced by AI of the ones you list, as AI can peruse millions of court cases in microseconds and counter argue a point, bring up an objection, and cite previous law in seconds. Something not even hundreds of human lawyers working for months on a case could do.

It is amazing how people don't realize all this. Mostly it is just fear and depression of uncertainty in their field of work.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. are not spending billions of dollars on AI tech just for kids to play with online, it will replace human workers in every area possible.

And this will be a good thing overall.

Just how people decried the use of tractors and machinery replacing slaves and workers, AI will replace humans in many fields of work.

lol ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have heard that some agencies are going back to pre COVID policies.

Which agencies? Which policies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RTO is improving collaboration and helping to build a department culture. Productivity is up since less are cheating on their hours. RTO is here to stay.

For me RTO = schlepping my laptop and related gear and potable water (because we don’t even all have mouses, keyboards, drinkable water available) etc. on the metro so I can go scavenge for a cube or a shared conference or a poorly lit storage room to sit on Teams Meetings. Morale and productivity are way down. Just had an interview for a higher paying hybrid job and really hoping I get the offer. High performers are leaving left and right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard that some agencies are going back to pre COVID policies.

Which agencies? Which policies?

Places that are losing highly skilled critical employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RTO is improving collaboration and helping to build a department culture. Productivity is up since less are cheating on their hours. RTO is here to stay.

This is so funny because all our politicals are working from home, all the 60+ and below 40s have some sort of RA and are working from home, and all the genx-ers are in their offices with the doors closed. Morale, productivity, and collaboration has never been worse.

[Anonymous]

Hybrid 2 to 3 days a week is the best work environment. You do not need to be on the office 5 days a week- more than 40 hours.

[Anonymous]

When I tried to go into the office yesterday, it was a 2 hour wait for the shuttle to get to my building. So productive. Good thing I managed to keep my hybrid schedule so I could turn around, go home and get some work done. The RTOs just twiddled their thumbs for a good chunk of the morning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RTO is improving collaboration and helping to build a department culture. Productivity is up since less are cheating on their hours. RTO is here to stay.

Are you getting your collaboration ideas from commercials? Do you think people are really more energized and productive after commuting 3 hours a day?

Not to mention we don't even sit near each other due to limited office space. We might be on different floors but in the same work unit. And we have very limited ability to use a conference room due to limited office space so no face to face interaction even when IN THE OFFICE.

[Anonymous]

FDA is reversing telework for employees according to apple news. According to emails, review staff and supervisors are resuming telework.