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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we have to go back to the old way of doing things if there are new and improved ways of doing so? For everyone who's saying we used to go in 5 days a week and we had to find childcare, etc- that's right. We did, including me.  But needs and technology have evolved so if there's a better way that includes a healthier work-life balance and checks and balances to ensure work is being done, it just seems like a win-win to me. Keeps cars off the roads for people who do have to work in-person 100%, saves the government money in terms of leases/utility bills/transit subsidies, and makes for happier employees.

[b]Seems like people just don't want others to have better circumstances than they did [/b](just like when the government went to paid family leave- I scraped together enough leave and also had to take unpaid leave for my kids, but I am happy for the feds who get paid leave).

Signed- a fed with teens who doesn't begrudge anyone having a good work-life balance.

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+1 It's textbook schadenfreude.[/quote]

Another +1

Why aren’t these posters insisting we all hand wash laundry and give birth without an epidural. That is how things used to be done! Mothers before us struggled so we should too right?[/quote]

Have you noticed all of the business leaders who have pushed RTO? Are they all a bunch of dinosaurs who just hate mid-day yoga and extra work time for gentle parenting? Wow you’re insufferable.[/quote]

Way to let the logic go right over your head.

I was literally pointing out the stupidity of the PP’s argument that we should do things a certain way because it was how things were done before. That is lame reasoning.

If there is a business need for RTO then that should be plenty easy for agency managers to articulate. But just saying we need to go back to doing something X way because “I it and now you need to do it too” is intellectually lazy and insufferable.[/quote]

They don’t owe you an explanation and you don’t owe them any loyalty. Your management can decide they want everyone to RTO. If you disagree you should feel free to find a better situation and leave. Workers and employers should do what’s best for them however they see fit, what’s insufferable is the constant complaining. Please move on.[/quote]

You’re right. They don’t have to give an explanation and I don’t have to stay. But I believe any decent manager would explain RTO is because of XYZ workload changes or whatever. Employee morale is going to be low if managers make employees do things (whether RTO, change a deadline, being loaned out to another component for a project etc.) with the explanation of “because I said so.” This is how you end up with a disengaged workforce where your top performers continually move on.

I am a grown adult with a professional degree. I don’t need to work for anyone bossing me around like a parent to a toddler. I have over 15 years experience as an attorney and many connections in the private sector. So my answer to the OP’s question is that I will likely move on for more money and/or more flexibility elsewhere if there is RTO. I’m waiting it out for now though in the hopes this won’t come to fruition because I like my job and hope to keep it. If you want to call message board discussion whining then … ok.

Also, if you don’t want to read “whining” then why did you open a thread in which the topic is literally asking Feds whether they plan to return to office or quit? Like OMG what did you think was going to be discussed here? You must struggle a lot in life if you manage to voluntarily click on something and then get disgruntled when people talk about it. [/quote]

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