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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because we know you aren’t working all of the time and are taking advantage. [/quote]

what i'm actually doing is taking advantage all the days i'm in the office. apparently it's now part of the agency mission to get face time and socialize. so i do that, hard. mandatory in office day? i'm taking hour coffee "meetings". i will not join multiple meetings simultaneously. you scheduled a meeting right after an in-person meeting? sorry, i'll be having an oh-so-important "hallway meeting" instead, and i might dial in 20 minutes late. maybe. you scheduled a meeting when i am commuting home? sorry, not attending and i'm not going to bother to hit decline because you can see my available hours in the calendar and 5:30 is never it. basically i get about 1/3 of my normal work done if i'm in the office, but that's clearly what the folks in charge want, so thats what they get. [/quote]

When meetings are the goal, this is the result-- WFH is simply more efficient for back to back meetings. And I would be very inconvenienced is a colleague in the office missed 20 minutes of a meeting (all my meetings are intentional with the right people there) and I had to reschedule 6 or so people with insane schedules (back to back meetings!). Enough that I would float it up to her managers that it's now a risk on my project that I can't get decisions made and maybe a WFH schedule is better to get the meetings done and decisions made.

I think many workers on this board, understandably, don't understand organizations with very active meeting culture. It's not 100 people dialed in and cameras off. We are talking to select people globally, cameras on, showing data live and making decisions. I get that you don't get that, but please understand that this is a very real pattern for some really large companies, and WFH best supports it. [/quote]

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