[rinze]

> RTO in a nutshell.

I saw this a while ago on Mastodon and it's on point (https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/114027906524929311):

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In today’s “terminology matters”:

Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

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[gedy]

> spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office

Reminds me of a NYC startup I was at (while hired living on the west coast). CEO was really big on in-person (well except for all the LATAM devs I had to manage...) so they required me to fly out frequently, and my boss was incredulous I would book the 6 hour flight during week days because it "ate into work time". Like WTF is sitting on JetBlue flights on weekends for me but "work time"... I'm on salary anyways