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Not allowed to work from home (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know, that’s a lot better than many people that have been forced into 5 days a week or similar bullshit

I hope for your sake this isn't just their first test followed by an escalating series of demands :-/

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Ha, actually they played themselves on that front. I don't want to get into all of the details, but basically there's literally not enough space for all of us to be in on the same day. There used to be, but they shrank the footprint to save money.

Honestly I think the plan from our upper management was to allow a lot of full-time remote working, but that got killed by even higher up people. So, now we have this. I actually think our upper management isn't really the bad guy on this one and are just trying to make the best of a bad situation, dealing with idiotic requirements coming from on high.

I also think there are some artificial factors keeping it at one day a week, for now. It might go up to two at some point in the future, but a lot can happen between now and then. And two days might start running into that space limitation again, and they won't easily be able to expand the footprint - nor will they want to spend the money.