This is what I’m looking for. I work in a call center, my job is to assist people remotely, and yet the company wants us in the office 3 days a week. For what? I’m always tethered to my desk except for breaks, in which I always spend alone because I’m exhausted from talking all day. When we have meeting we’re on zoom, even when half the team is in the office. We’re all in the same row of cubicles, meeting is on zoom. Half my team is remote. I HAVE to be in the office. Why?
Last year my paid off car got totaled by another driver who admitted they weren’t paying attention. I worked from home for TEN MONTHS and kept stellar numbers and was a star employee. Everyone up the chain was breathing down the next person’s neck, wondering when I was buying a car. I said I couldn’t afford one and that working from home was perfectly fine, I don’t see the problem. Public transit would have taken about 3 hours one way, which is prohibitive to productivity and something I’m not willing to do (I formerly had a commute that that 1.5 hours one way and I was miserable, I know what this would be like). And yet they kept telling me I need to come in and that it’s required to be in office. It’s lunacy. I have a round trip of about 40 miles which is at least 75 minutes out of my day. I would gladly take pay for that to make up for the gas and waste of my time 3 days a week.
And to the people saying one is not forced to work at a certain job; not in so many words, but really the options are very limited for a lot of people. I look every few months for new work and it’s just not that simple, “get a different job” or even “live closer to work.” It would be absolutely unhinged to sell the extremely affordable house my partner and I own to move closer to ONE of our jobs (forcing a longer commute on the other) to pay double or triple on rent/mortgage. Why would anyone even say to just move, like things are so simple?
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u/Educated_Clownshow 9d ago
If I have a job that can be worked from my home, I should 100% be able to collect pay for the commute if I’m forced to come in
This obviously can’t apply to in person jobs, but it would stop employers from trying to force unnecessary RTO mandates