My CEO’s latest “spin” on RTO

Summary of my situation:
* > 15 years at this place
* Full-time WFH for 10 years BEFORE COVID
* Got the RTO hammer a couple years ago for the usual C&C bullshit reasons
* 3 days/week, until they settled on “11 days/month” — glad they figured out such a precise formula for how much “C&C” is needed

This is NOT quiet layoffs — we’re hiring and have replaced all who quit right after RTO. It’s either external financial pressure (CRE and/or tax breaks) OR these psychopaths really believe the C&C nonsense

Had another all-hands “state of the company” address the other day. They accept questions BEFORE those and at the end of the presentations they’ll answer some of them. (For reference, we’re north of 60K employees so there are MANY MANY roles that are simply not WFH-suitable… mostly customer-facing ones. One of the largest roles we’ll call <FACE>). The question they chose to answer was “Are we planning on upping the # of in-office days required per week/month?”

Our CEO shoulda been a politician. Their response (paraphrasing): “You should know that most of the other large companies in <our industry> have gone to 4 or even 5 days per week, so we’re actually one of the lowest of the big players to stay at 3”.

And that answers the question…how??? Oh, that’s right, NOT AT ALL.

Then they went on with “Speaking of RTO, we get a lot of feedback from <FACE> people who are getting tired of former full-time WFHers complaining about having to come into the office 3 days a week, when they have to come in EVERY day”.

I can’t wait to retire.