Starting in 2024 we moved from 2x/week to 3x/week RTO. Drive is about 28 miles each way for me. On office days, I usually start off working at home in morning around 7:30am, and then commute up after rush hour around 10am and get to office between 10:30-11am, leave around 2-2:30pm before rush hour after work, and wrap up any remaining work from home. Since I commute off hours, the drive each way is about 30-35min. Even with this more relaxed schedule it’s still a struggle some days to make it in 3x days a week, I’ll often find myself making excuses for not coming in - not feeling well, having work done at house, dr appointments, sick day, pto, etc. - only making it in 2x/week typically. Any others struggling to meet RTO requirements? TC: $140k #americanexpress #meta #apple #amazon #google #netflix #faang #maang
Wake up earlier
This will make RTO better how? I already wake up at 7am and am online by 7:30-8am
Wake up 6:30, drive 28 miles in 30 mins before the traffic hit. Find some solution or just get eliminated who cares.
LoL you barely work and still crying? Also TC or GTFO
Quit and find a remote job. You shouldn’t have to drive that amount of distance just to for a job, nor should you have to uproot yourself all for the sake of keeping your job. TC: 105K
What’s a commute?
I'm a fan of rto, my team is great and so are the rest of my office peers. I only commute 1.5 miles on🛴
You’re basically just coffee badging yet you complain about it.
Op is lazy af
Wow, people forget how life was before 2020 and make it look like 3 days is such a struggle compared to 2 days. Wtf !!!! It's like my doctor is asking me to walk for 30 mins a day instead of 15 mins. You are designed to walk as a human, and you have forgotten it !
I do the exact same thing. Work 1.5 hour in the morning, Commute. Spend 1.5 hours in office, have lunch. Commute back. My one way commute is 1.5 hours, so I don’t have the mental energy to work after coming back. Practically I work only 3 hours on the 3 office days. 25 hours a week, instead of 40 hours. I don’t mind doing it, but it is just stupid for the employer. I’ve seen previous comments, comparing 3/5 days to pre-Covid 5/5 days. Back then, most meetings and significant amount of collaboration was happening in person. That was the ‘culture’. Today we work differently. Our tools have evolved. Our ‘culture’ has evolved… Even with 3/5, everything must be remote friendly and virtual, otherwise how can we work on the other 2 days from home. My point is, enforcing 3/5 to everyone doesn’t make any sense. If you want to eliminate fully remote workers, that’s fine, I don’t mind coming to office once or twice a week. But let people decide for themselves. One size doesn’t fit all.
🤣 You're the reason why this is happening. You were never working 40 hours in the first place
I hatr driving more than 20 mins to an office in downtown
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RTO sucks. Because after being back at office, you still take a meeting from someone who is not in your office. I regularly work with people in France and UK , making the time difference odd. I just don't understand the logic of RTO for my role anyway
Right, I’ve had maybe 1-2 meetings where I actually sat in a room with others while in office and even those meetings had 1/2 the participants still call in with WebEx. The rest are all virtual meetings and since we do open seating at Amex it’s extremely difficult for large teams like ours to all find seating next each other, meaning I usually end up sitting on an entirely different floor
Same here man. Open seating has made life even worse. And then people chatter soooo much. Fucking get a conference room for you wanna chatter that much. My work progress has sufficiently decreased since RTO. But no body cares. I guess to make up for lost progress, we now work more at home. I think currently at RTO progress evaluation , we are struggling from " survival bias"