Upper management cannot be trusted. We were promised, for three years, that we would never go back to working full time in office from a hybrid schedule. We are more productive at home and I think our revenue and stock prices make that apparent. Yet upper management tells us in a department wide zoom call that we “aren’t collaborating enough” and that we are “slipping in some areas” and that one of the main factors for the decision is “to increase productivity”. We are being given a month to completely change our lives. Many people have built lives and families around being remote and for a company to strip that away at a moments notice without any support or compensation is just disgusting. Not to mention the fact that they have absolutely no data to back up their claims. It really just seems like someone at the top had a bad day and threw a tantrum and just said “You know what would make me feel better? Ruining lives”. We don’t even have the space to bring everyone back. Which further tells me this was a reactive decision and not a planned, thought out one. I’m really considering my future with this company. I’m not sure I want to continue working somewhere where the upper management make volatile, rash decisions without any regard for the employees those decisions affect. I feel betrayed by a company I once loved. I was lied to for three years. It’s just really sad.
