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got written up for going to the dentist at 2pm while working from home

this one still doesn't feel real. i've been remote for almost 3 years. my dentist is 5 minutes from my house. i had a cleaning scheduled for 2pm on a Wednesday.…

my "in office" day is me sitting in a WeWork because the company doesn't have a real office in my state

I got hired by a company based in Boston. I'm in North Carolina. They knew this when they hired me. It was remote. Then it wasn't. When they announced hybrid RT…

My manager is forcing us to RTO, and his brilliant idea is a new open-plan layout. I'm in IT support and my entire job is answering calls. My job search just went into overdrive.

I honestly don't understand. Our team's productivity is through the roof. Our customer satisfaction scores have never been higher, and we're crushing all our SL…

Hot take: RTO is a pay cut. We should call it that.

I keep seeing RTO framed as a culture thing, a collaboration thing, or a productivity thing. All of that misses the point. For a lot of remote workers, RTO is j…

Amazon's RTO is backfiring according to recruiters...no kidding

Amazon's RTO mandates (Return to Office) are apparently "hampering recruiting efforts", according to internal documents. RTO is "limiting the ability to find 'h…

Guess who no longer works at home.

This morning, I got a surprise video call from my manager, telling me that our entire team has to return to working from the office full-time. This is despite t…

Coworker thinks she's escaped. She has not

I work for a company owned by a large holding company. They recently came out with a hybrid RTO mandate for those living within 50 miles of an office. Fortunate…

Remote work is making me realize who on my team was actually working

So we went from fully remote to this weird hybrid thing 3 days in, 2 days home. And suddenly some people who were "always so busy" are now super available in th…

My company’s new “remote accountability system ” literally tracks our mouse movement

Last week IT installed a new “productivity tool” that supposedly helps managers understand “work patterns.” Turns out it’s just spyware that logs our mouse and …

My company tracks whether you open Slack within 15 minutes of your scheduled start time. Found out by accident.

Been remote for about two and a half years at this company and overall it's been fine. Good team, reasonable hours, no complaints about the work itself. Then ab…

Got laid off due to an RTO requirement the week I was going to put in my 2 weeks and quit.

Thought you all would get a kick out of this story. I am still laughing. So earlier this year our company got bought out which brought some big changes. Culture…

I’m just here to brag…

I was working a hybrid job where the CEO preferred we all be in the office, even when he was working from his lake place. For a couple years I was the only one …

Remote work accidentally saved my marriage a bit

When people talk about working from home they usually mention sleep or commute, but the biggest change for me is how much more actual time I get with my wife no…

Remote work ruined me in the best way possible

I honestly don’t know how people went back to the office after tasting remote work. Like… I just made coffee in my kitchen, answered emails in sweatpants, threw…

My company tried to "reward" us for returning to the office with free pizza

We’ve been fully remote for three years and it worked perfectly. suddenly management announced we all had to come back to the office twice a week. People were u…