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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Started a new role in my company but on a different team, and 2 weeks in it’s apparent that there is much less flexibility and work/life balance than in my past 3 roles (at the same company). I am middle management - senior but not on our executive team, but this role has much more visibility to that team than my previous ones.

I have a long commute (generally over an hour with traffic) and in my last role (which I started during Covid) I arrived at the office between 9-9:30 and left by 5. This was fine with my manager since I always got my work done and often logged in at night after my kids went to bed, which was a trade off I was happy to make in order to get home for dinner and bedtime with my kids.

The challenge now is that I am regularly being invited to meetings that start at 8:30 and 5pm, and everyone else is in person so it would not be great optics for me as the newest team member to join from the car or at home. In addition, our policy is 3 days in the office each week and 2 days WFH, however nearly everyone on the team chooses to come in 4 days. That is so disappointing as I have no desire to come in an extra day that isn’t required, but again feel like it may not look great for me to be the odd man out.

Anyone have a recommendation on how to approach this to get back some flexibility? Not sure if there is really a way to change the culture on this team, but do feel like my days at the company are going to be limited if I can’t find a way to balance this job and my personal life since [b]I have zero desire to go back to the company’s pre-Covid ways of long, grueling hours in the office every day [/b]and very limited time with my family.[/quote]

This stood out to me.   It sounds like the company's standard is not a "balanced" schedule allowing 2 days/week work from home--but that those concessions are a fairly recent (just since Covid) change.    It's possible that the entire company intends to eventually go back to the long grueling hours, and that this department you just joined has already started (probably because, like you said, this team is the most "visible.")  [/quote]

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