My office is currently claiming they are interested in hybrid, but trust me, it's a lie. MY unit (and almost no other units) will end up having to go back full time in person because we are unfortunately the public service unit, and even though we have managed just fine without in person as an option for over a year, they will be dying t…
My office is currently claiming they are interested in hybrid, but trust me, it's a lie. MY unit (and almost no other units) will end up having to go back full time in person because we are unfortunately the public service unit, and even though we have managed just fine without in person as an option for over a year, they will be dying to "go back to normal" and "business as usual." They want full all day long in person service again, and that means we're effed. Once they declared that at least two people would have to be in the office every day--and I note we have five adult peon employees that that's referring to--I knew it was doomed. We've been known to have 3 out of 5 call in sick on one day, and what are they going to do when that happens, as it happens fairly frequently and has happened for half the week in the last few weeks? Are they gonna call someone who lives 1.5 hours away at 7 or 8 a.m. and tell them they have to come in after all? Multiple days a week? So you can NEVER know from day to day when you have to drop everything and run to the office? Hahahah, yeah right, it'll just be easier to force everyone to be here every day and "be flexible." Unfortunately, I had no job options before the pandemic--I spent a lot of years trying to get off public service team--and it's not going to be any better now.
Our offices sound pretty different in how they're organized, but "claiming they are interested in hybrid, but it's a lie" sounds EXTREMELY familiar. Our back to office date (which is of course mid summer, rather than after school starts again in the fall...) hasn't arrived yet, but I'm already getting a strong sense of there being a difference between the written flex work policy and the unspoken rules that will actually determine promotions, etc. Love to add one more abled white male non-primary-caregiver norm on top of the rest that HR can't technically tell you to follow, but the higher ups will enforce in practice.
I hope your job options end up being better than they seem right now!
Hahahaha, not unless they drastically decide to revision the office, i.e. cut required in-office staff times to wait on the walk-in public. Which they would rather shoot us all dead than do. Added bonus: our leader quit this year and we have no idea who's going to be making these decisions for us in the future.... BLECH on all of it.
Well, I got to enjoy working from home and being more well rested and getting more quiet for over a year, which was more than I ever expected to get in my work life. Bright side!
My office is currently claiming they are interested in hybrid, but trust me, it's a lie. MY unit (and almost no other units) will end up having to go back full time in person because we are unfortunately the public service unit, and even though we have managed just fine without in person as an option for over a year, they will be dying to "go back to normal" and "business as usual." They want full all day long in person service again, and that means we're effed. Once they declared that at least two people would have to be in the office every day--and I note we have five adult peon employees that that's referring to--I knew it was doomed. We've been known to have 3 out of 5 call in sick on one day, and what are they going to do when that happens, as it happens fairly frequently and has happened for half the week in the last few weeks? Are they gonna call someone who lives 1.5 hours away at 7 or 8 a.m. and tell them they have to come in after all? Multiple days a week? So you can NEVER know from day to day when you have to drop everything and run to the office? Hahahah, yeah right, it'll just be easier to force everyone to be here every day and "be flexible." Unfortunately, I had no job options before the pandemic--I spent a lot of years trying to get off public service team--and it's not going to be any better now.
Our offices sound pretty different in how they're organized, but "claiming they are interested in hybrid, but it's a lie" sounds EXTREMELY familiar. Our back to office date (which is of course mid summer, rather than after school starts again in the fall...) hasn't arrived yet, but I'm already getting a strong sense of there being a difference between the written flex work policy and the unspoken rules that will actually determine promotions, etc. Love to add one more abled white male non-primary-caregiver norm on top of the rest that HR can't technically tell you to follow, but the higher ups will enforce in practice.
I hope your job options end up being better than they seem right now!
Hahahaha, not unless they drastically decide to revision the office, i.e. cut required in-office staff times to wait on the walk-in public. Which they would rather shoot us all dead than do. Added bonus: our leader quit this year and we have no idea who's going to be making these decisions for us in the future.... BLECH on all of it.
Well, I got to enjoy working from home and being more well rested and getting more quiet for over a year, which was more than I ever expected to get in my work life. Bright side!