I work in tech and the CIO convinced the CEO to allow the IT department to work remotely full-time forever because we’d lose already hard-to-retain talent, but all the other departments are required to come back into the office.

The insanity of being forced to commute, at a basic level, and producing 8 figures of profits for higher ups that then take credit while I was paid less than the going rate for my services (which was itself low), is precisely why I became self employed 15 years ago.

It’s kinda nice that people are waking up to how much we are being exploited but I kinda feel like it’s 2 generations too late. Maybe 3 if you count those who aren’t of working age yet and were born into this dystopia.

This isn’t just a failed system, and failed economy, it’s been failed for 30 or so years.

I work in a tech company in Europe. They want to force us to come to the office every two weeks because “we need to create bonds, don’t forget we are a big family”. For me, that entails 4 hours of commute every day, and they don’t even cover all the expenses. So far, I’ve been able to tell them to piss off. Let’s see how long this lasts.

No, I’m fully remote and can’t really imagine having to waste time getting ready, driving into an office and wearing headphones to drown out the loud talkers of the shitty open floor plan office, so I can focus and get work done.

Employer joked about returning to office on April 1st, that’s about it

@isleofmist Our company allows 100% remote only for people who don’t live close to one of the offices :< luckily I’m in that group