I've spoken to a few folks in middle management there, and some senior engineers, and it's exactly this story.
So far as they can figure there aren't many middle managers actually pushing for this.
It's all senior leadership trying valiantly to recapture the "Day 1" mentality that process and procedures have beaten out of the company.
The clueless upper management are serving their wealthy owners who have a commercial real estate portfolio that is losing them huge amounts of money unless they can get the little people back in the offices.
I ended up working for european part of rather big US database company that similarly started pushing RTO.
The RTO mandates were fully delivered from US HQ and from the very top, while middle management tried very hard to preserve remote work, especially as many people were hired from quite far away from office... and no, the salaries were nowhere close to justify people moving.
kevinventullo|1 year ago
Twirrim|1 year ago
It's all senior leadership trying valiantly to recapture the "Day 1" mentality that process and procedures have beaten out of the company.
marcus_holmes|1 year ago
p_l|1 year ago
The RTO mandates were fully delivered from US HQ and from the very top, while middle management tried very hard to preserve remote work, especially as many people were hired from quite far away from office... and no, the salaries were nowhere close to justify people moving.
iou|1 year ago