My team was trying to back-fill two positions for the better part of this year. We had 2 really good candidates that were going to be required to be in the office a few days a week because they were close to one of the offices. The rest of the team is all over the country and none of us go to a office since they closed most of them.
Both of them said that they had other offers but would reconsider if the company waved the mandatory in-office time which would have been stupid to do anyway because our team and none of the teams we work with are in that office so they would be going to meet each other in the office since they happened to live close enough.
In the end we got HR/Upper management to wave the in-office requirement pointing out how stupid it would be since no one else would be at that office. Both of them were hired in the last 3 weeks and have already started and are already getting shit done.
RTO is a joke for a vast amount of the type of work that people in the country do at this point. All of this "in person collaboration creates success" or similar arguments are complete bullshit.
RTO is a joke for a vast amount of the type of work that people in the country do at this point. All of this "in person collaboration creates success" or similar arguments are complete bullshit.
A friend of mine is required to attend certain meetings from the office. The problem is that everyone he meets with is in a different office from everyone else. Literally the entire team goes into the nearest office to get on a Teams call with each other.
My god that is fucking stupid. That is not just a massive waste of time and resources but it is so brain dead it hurts.
It completely crushes morale, too.