That's what our manager told me and another coworker yesterday as an explanation on why RTO is necessary. Completely ignoring the fact that it's been since before the pandemic that all of us have been in the office together as a group and our productivity has not suffered at all. It might have even improved. Not only that, there isn't a single day since RTO started that all or even a majority of us have been in the office together. Some people prefer to do Monday to Wednesday, some Tuesday to Thursday, some alternate, you get the picture. Doesn't that kind of defeat the whole "we work better as a group" argument?
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Our group couldn’t stand each other before COVID and “collaborated” better when where home… only having to speak/moc when needed. No negative facial expressions to see or tones to hear. IT WAS GREAT!!! We did not miss a seeing each other & NOT looking forward to the next in office engagement. Now that we’re mostly back… it’s back to shlitty looks and animosity
There was more grumbling about being in the office than anything else. THAT was the collaborating.
This push of RTO will continue to force more people to leave. It’s a sad reality and I can’t wait to see how it unfolds in the future for BOFA. I’m posting out aggressively and hoping to get out very soon. I refuse to accept the old norm. It doesn’t work anymore and people are miserable for it. No offense but I’d much rather deal with people from afar. Did it for two plus years and did it well. The people that sit around me are loud and obnoxious. The workplace is distracting and noisy. Most people at work are not fun to be around. They talk too much and I don’t care for the idle talk. Not there to socialize or make friends. The people I work with are from different states and overseas. This is not pre Covid. Times have changed and people have more choices now. More and more companies are embracing remote. Will not accept anything less. No point in being loyal. This bank pays cr---y anyway. No extra special benefits to say it’s worth staying. You should all be posting. It’s certainly worth seeing what’s out there. I couldn’t find a better time to say it’s time to say goodbye to this bank. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Aww back to the office. Where the unnecessary chatter and clique back stabbing is. I’m sure many people missed that while working from home. To see them in their element is always fun to watch. Takes me back to high school.
A co-worker and myself were talking today at our desks about how many people were on our floor. There were 10 people. None of which were in the same group as anyone else. So we said, let's be quiet for 30 seconds and listen to everyone that is working together, we can hear them collaborate. It was literally dead silent. Not a person was talking to another person, let alone collaborating together in the office. 7 of the 10 people that were there, literally sit at a desk in a Bank office, to sit on phone calls with people in other parts of the country/world. Literally makes no sense to be there 3 days a week, to collaborate with no one. If there was a reason to be in, we would make it our business to come in to work together, but there is literally none.
Of course it defeats it but they literally don’t have a better reason.
Obviously they can be honest and say how the decision makers are a bunch of old dinosaurs that only care about money, and real estate holdings and whatever back room deal deal they made with politicians to get the downtowns buzzing with workers again.
But they never will be honest, so “we work better together” is the best they can do.