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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
100 percent.  The posts are just confirmation of Dostoeyevsky's statement that a human being can get used to anything (prison, pain, tortured suffering) [/quote]+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?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

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So sick of these bitter takes. I was remote even before Covid and here's what my employers got out of me:

1. [b]At least [/b] 10 hours/day where I was accessible via phone, email, Teams (even if I - the horror! - momentarily stepped away to throw in a load of laundry)
2. Seamless responsiveness to my West Coast staff during their working hours
3. Working through what otherwise would have been sick days (mine or my kids')

If the expectation is that I spend 8 hours in an office, then add in 1+ hours commuting, I am not going to turn around and make myself available at 7 PM for a call with the California team.

I know too many people in my industry (consulting) who are back at work 5 days a week only to sit in front of their computers all day for Teams meetings with people in other places. So pointless and punitive. In all my years of remote managing, I can count on one hand the number of employers who were truly taking advantage of the company - and they tended to be in roles that had been forced 100% remote during the pandemic but didn't actually make sense to be remote otherwise.[/quote]

This 100%.  My spouse's boss was West Coast so the expectation was many early-late evening meetings/calls at his convenience, and it was fine with wfh when he could flex but not in the office 8-10 hours a day plus a 90-minute commute.  They'd expect them to check emails all day/night/weekends too.  Fine with flexibility, not fine with office/long commute. He also had meetings with people in other countries so some of the calls would be 10-11 at night or 4-5 in the morning.  Very hard to do if you are working in person and need to sleep for the commute.  Simple solution was to find a better job 8 hours a day in the office no evening or weekend.  You get one or the other.  You want in office, fine, then you get 8-9 hours a day.  Want flexibility, then you need to give it too. [/quote]

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