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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP and their supporters are making themselves look like goofs. They keep citing their opponents as being 5-day/week bootlickers or managers who want to be fawned over, but no one is making those arguments. It’s beyond me why OP can’t go to work and collaborate like they used to, with open doors and face-to-face meetings. [b]Who said that RTO meant sitting in an office with their door closed and working on Teams. [/b]That would be the opitome of someone who can’t pivot, not understanding when to use which tools. If I was OPs manager, I’d have a conversation about their attitude and inflexibility. If that didn’t improve with a verbal, PIP it would be. OP doesn’t want hybrid to work. They’re insufferable and should be terminated. Let’s be honest, the Fed is paying this person a handsome sum to work. If they can’t muster the wherewithal to get into the office and be a cordial colleague 2-3 days a week, they’re not needed. Bad apples spoil the bunch. [/quote]

Because for many of us we mostly work with staff not even located in our building.  Pre-Covid we held conference calls.  Now it’s Teams calls.

If you have even one person on a project or part of a group who is not located in DC then it necessitates a Teams call.  If you have a Teams call then this means everyone is going to sit in their office on the Teams call.  Even if everyone who is part of a group is located in DC there’s a chance that at least one person is traveling for work and will need to attend the meeting using Teams. [/quote]

[b]How is any of this different from pre-COVID?[/b] The main difference seems to be that in-office staff no longer gather in conference rooms for video calls, but stay in their offices. Maybe you can suggest that people stop that. In pre-pandemic days, there used to be a lot of conservation both in the conference room and afterwards, oftentimes spilling back into a staffer’s office. It’s this type of non-scheduled, friendly synchronicity that doesn’t happen in a WFH environment. With WFH, everything must be rigidly scheduled and dropped according to video chat appointments. Frankly, I find that annoying. [/quote]

The difference is that we now all have access to technology that allows us to work remotely.  Remember when we used conference lines and not Teams?

In my division there has never been much informal discussion before/after meetings, in the hallways etc. We are working on confidential matters and informal chats in front of people uninvolved in an issue are frowned upon.

If you are able to have conversations in the hallway then you’re able to have them via Teams. It sounds like you need to work on your ability to work remotely. You need to evolve. Things change and you can’t expect the workplace to always stay the same. All of this sounds like a you problem.  [/quote]

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