Forced back to the office?

If your employer demanded your return to the office...

  • I'd go back to the office

    Votes: 185 50.1%

  • I'd resign

    Votes: 71 19.2%

  • I cannot speculate

    Votes: 46 12.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 67 18.2%
  • Total voters
    369
saor said:
I don't understand the issue. Most people worked from an office all the time. If the company wants you back at the office - then go?
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And before the invention of toilet paper people used corn cobs to wipe their asses. I'm NOT going back to that.
 
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Hamster said:
And before the inventive of toilet paper people used corn cobs to wipe their asses. I'm NOT going back to that.
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Benedict A55h0le said:
I`ll rather quit than go back to the office. There are many companies now that allow wfh. People should stop behaving like slaves and do the right thing, which is wfh if you can. Screw the micro-manager location controlling boss freaks.
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Bravely said until you are without a job and suddenly realize how difficult it is to get a job. 3 months turns to 6 turns to 12 and each prospective employer once to know two things:

1. Why did you quit your job?
2. Why are you finding it so difficult to get another job.

Telling them it's the market or the jobs are scarce doesn't help, their ears are blocked to that, goes right over their heads. And so the snowball gets bigger and bigger and so do the bills.

You'll wish you had just gone back to the office. Think your boss is mean? Wait till you see how mean and ugly life can get when you are unemployed.
 
Solarion said:
Bravely said until you are without a job and suddenly realize how difficult it is to get a job. 3 months turns to 6 turns to 12 and each prospective employer once to know two things:

1. Why did you quit your job?
2. Why are you finding it so difficult to get another job.

Telling them it's the market or the jobs are scarce doesn't help, their ears are blocked to that, goes right over their heads. And so the snowball gets bigger and bigger and so do the bills.

You'll wish you had just gone back to the office. Think your boss is mean? Wait till you see how mean and ugly life can get when you are unemployed.
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Bit like getting a bank loan - can get them when you don't need the money. Easy to get a job when you have options. Probably good to line up the next role/business before you leave your previous one in a huff.
 
I love wfh, would always choose it. But in desperate times I'd grind my teeth and go back to the office.
 
Before COVID were you in the office. When you started your job did you sign a letter of appointment and the office premises were where you worked from..................we there you have it.
 
Well, would have greater fetching-and-carrying of kids distances to cover, so hopefully it would be a hybrid.
My wife has to go back a couple of times per week now.

Funny how WFH was all the rage, but isn't anymore. It's like companies simply forgot that employees, if trusted enough, could accomplish much more WFH.
 
Hemi300c said:
Before COVID were you in the office. When you started your job did you sign a letter of appointment and the office premises were where you worked from..................we there you have it.
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So then no-one had to work from home. It isn't the place listed on their contract.

Then there are the companies that relocate, but don't issue new contracts. You're saying the employees could just go by the letter of their contract and fail to turn up at the new location.

I've also changed managers without my contract being changed. Should I have kept reporting to the manager listed in my contract?

The point is that regardless of whether they were compelled by circumstances companies have created the precedent by having employees working from home, and unless they can show a negative impact on delivery they lack valid grounds to compel people to work in the office every day.
 
Hemi300c said:
Before COVID were you in the office. When you started your job did you sign a letter of appointment and the office premises were where you worked from..................we there you have it.
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Untrue.
 
Don't bother kowtowing if you hate it at the office. Raise the issue with your manager and if they aren't interested then start looking for something else. You'll at least know for sure your manager doesn't have your back which is another good reason to get out of there if you can. I've been working long enough to know there is no point bowing and scraping. Toeing the company line won't improve your remuneration or chances of promotion.

It is also worth sounding out your colleagues if you can as you'll often find there is more than just you who are not happy with being forced back into the office. Also a good way to find out if you can actually trust the people you work with. If they run off to tell on you it is another sign you should leave.
 
Solarion said:
Bravely said until you are without a job and suddenly realize how difficult it is to get a job. 3 months turns to 6 turns to 12 and each prospective employer once to know two things:

1. Why did you quit your job?
2. Why are you finding it so difficult to get another job.

Telling them it's the market or the jobs are scarce doesn't help, their ears are blocked to that, goes right over their heads. And so the snowball gets bigger and bigger and so do the bills.

You'll wish you had just gone back to the office. Think your boss is mean? Wait till you see how mean and ugly life can get when you are unemployed.
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People are different. I am not junior and my skills are in demand. I`m basically ready to retire. The world has changed. People are becoming more individualistic and less blindly conformant and rightly so. Bring on the milleneals who work only on what they want, where they want, when they want, and I say good luck to the old school boss who thinks he can still control people unwisely.
 
noxibox said:
The point is that regardless of whether they were compelled by circumstances companies have created the precedent by having employees working from home, and unless they can show a negative impact on delivery they lack valid grounds to compel people to work in the office every day.
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No-ones compelling anyone to do anything
 
Well, I'd be pretty unhappy, considering we're moving closer to my wife's work this weekend based on the promise that we will never be required to work from the office again. And our team of 7 are currently spread over 5 different metros/cities.

Still, I'll just go early in the morning and skip traffic.

Luckily I don't work for c*nts, so no chance of that happening.
 
Solarion said:
Bravely said until you are without a job and suddenly realize how difficult it is to get a job. 3 months turns to 6 turns to 12 and each prospective employer once to know two things:

1. Why did you quit your job?
2. Why are you finding it so difficult to get another job.

Telling them it's the market or the jobs are scarce doesn't help, their ears are blocked to that, goes right over their heads. And so the snowball gets bigger and bigger and so do the bills.

You'll wish you had just gone back to the office. Think your boss is mean? Wait till you see how mean and ugly life can get when you are unemployed.
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Dude, I could quit my job today and I'd be rehired within the month somewhere else. So, no, if a company forces me to go to the office, I'll move to another company that has a better WFH policy.

Companies know this and hence why a lot of them now dangle that carrot in job ads.
 
I would look for alternatives, if we couldn't agree to part time in the office. Don't mind couple days a week but just makes more sense to work from home. Especially if you are in a position working with remote teams around the world anyway.
 
ShaunSA said:
No-ones compelling anyone to do anything
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The lockdowns never happened? I hadn't realised it was all a dream.

As for employees you're saying they can now just work wherever they like.

compel - force or oblige (someone) to do something, bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure

So in fact companies were compelled to shut their offices and some are now compelling employees to return to their offices.
 
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