Company praises us for being so productive working remote during covid

Forcing us to go in after covid with no remote option

The media would have you believe there is no "after" covid. Like it is raging so hard right now, that hardly anyone has it.

Yikes...this hits too close to home...I hope you're not sitting across from me. :)

Our manager tracked everything we were doing while we worked from home and showed increases in productivity (more software releases, less downtime, etc).

Had the numbers proving a official+permanent WFH policy could benefit the company, but nope. Once everyone was semi-forced back in the office, VP nixed the suggestion saying how important 'water cooler discussions' were to the company.

Lost 4 full time devs and a manger to companies with WFH polices this year and heard another dev is on the fence. Maybe this old battleship will eventually turn.

Higher ups justifying their salaries because they are mostly useless

I'm thinking about quitting once they mandated us to WFO.

@Demolishun yeah it worked so well the people in the street starving to death that lost their homes and the young adults who caught aids died off in droves and years ago

Office bosses justify their own existence by saying that people won't be productive without them. However in their absence, people who actually make stuff do it incredibly.

That is the easy-going version. The truth is much more frustrating: companies do not care about our output. They only care about the financial results.

Explaining myself: you know when you can't really do shit because as soon as you get going your boss has another, beyond-infinity level priority task for you? Their job is to *never be done*, and always get new tasks. That is where the money is. When you finish stuff, clients get satisfied. Satisfied clients do not pay for more widgets. Thus, you must be always "almost done", so the client is "almost happy" enough to keep paying and still not go to other company.

People who work from home get things done before they can be interrupted, the commie b@st@rds. It ruins the whole thing.

you already posted this to.
whats the point of reminders in ones environment if everyone just steals everything all over again and prevents people from progressing in their lives in an environment which is sensible ?

apparently they overestimated the cruelty of each generation to the next heh.

@PepeTheFrog I think you are correct. Some in management when working from home have a much harder reason to find their "reason to exist" within the company. I suspect some(not all) in fill their days with a huge amount of unnecessary long meetings.Meetings over teams tend to go more to the point. I think those people push coming back to work because they consciously (or subconsciously) realize that they are not needed atleast not for the fulltime job they get paid for.

@jAsE-cAsE wth is that a monkey ?

@jAsE-cAsE omg i've been baited twice !

this is happening in a lot of places, and it betrays a fundamental truth about the workplace, that it's about monitoring. i do think there's other benefits for the employees, but that's not why they do it

@darksideofyay

https://youtu.be/jWY1LfEhkig

GLORIOUS PURPOSE !