I 100% agree with that.It's just an old way of thinking. The world has changed.
I understand it seems unfair that others can stay remote and you can't, but unfortunately it seems to be up to your manager. This seems very common to me in most work places.
I work part time for a large company with many different departments. Each department head decides for their team how often the need to come in. Some teams are totally remote, others have to come in 1-2 days per week and some teams go in 5 days a week. Does not matter what another team is doing, you do what your boss says.
If I were in your position, I would start going in one day a week. You can always ask to go back to being remote when they see there is no pressing need for you to physically be in the office. I would not take it up with HR just yet, not worth it for one day. I would give it time and ask again in a few months.
Yeah this is pretty normal actually.Same at my workplace - different managers (well, directors) interpret the rules and/or apply the rules about remote working differently.
Thanks for your reply!I understand it seems unfair that others can stay remote and you can't, but unfortunately it seems to be up to your manager. This seems very common to me in most work places.
I work part time for a large company with many different departments. Each department head decides for their team how often the need to come in. Some teams are totally remote, others have to come in 1-2 days per week and some teams go in 5 days a week. Does not matter what another team is doing, you do what your boss says.
If I were in your position, I would start going in one day a week. You can always ask to go back to being remote when they see there is no pressing need for you to physically be in the office. I would not take it up with HR just yet, not worth it for one day. I would give it time and ask again in a few months.
My manager doesn't go in.......I think this is a good idea @Snowflakey. I would start going in to the office and use that time to get into a good person-to-person vibe with your manager. At some point during some banter, ask the manager why there are differences and why some people didn't have to fill out an exception form but you did. Maybe after you win some points with your manager, you can have a good, honest discussion about it. But only you know your manager and if that's even possible.
Well, that's just downright bizarre.My manager doesn't go in.......
Exactly my point in creating this post!!Well, that's just downright bizarre.
If the manager does not go in then this is completely ridiculous IMOMy manager doesn't go in.......
Well, in a relatively open environment, you could simply ask for clarity. “I’m aware so-and-so has gotten an exemption that I’ve been denied and I’d like to know if there are any factors that could have changed my outcome.”Different managers, different management styles.
Doesn't feel fair, but watcha gonna do?
I'm also one who can not work remotely.
But dh has had a manager like this and dh just rolled with it. He's not looking to impress anyone or rock the boat. He just wants to keep his job until he can retire in 10 years.
I 100% agree with that.
Remote work is the future no doubt, but the other side of that coin is if the job can be done remotely than can it be done from country X where the pay is 20% of what it is here? Yes without a doubt. There are issues with that, I've seen it first hand, but even if you have to hire two people to get the job done its still far less than what you might pay someone here.
But the numbers etc... not so much. Number can be manipulated to show what people want to show. Statistics.
My experience is nothing like that - it may depend on the industry.
Personally, although I am not really trying hard to find a job, the people that are trying are not getting much at all.
The job market is very odd right now.
The unemployment numbers are also a bit sketchy as well - they always have been - so that is nothing new.
You sound like Elon Musk and his opinion that work from home is morally wrong. His reasoning for people having to return to the office was because food, factory and construction workers couldn't work from home, so why should everyone else.Since I work in a secure facility and at no time was able to work from home for other one day every two weeks, I have no sympathy for folks that complain about having to come into the office 2 or 3 days a week. This is the way it was before COVID and things should return to that way.
I've worked remote or hybrid since 97 - and I've seen all the outsourcing over the years that you talk about.The outsourcing you're referring to is really nothing new. We've experienced that first hand as well when my husband's previous company began to hire lots of new engineers working in India. It had nothing to do with remote workers here vs. there....they were just replacing engineers who worked in an office here....with those that worked in an office there.
I believe AI is going to have more of an effect on jobs being lost in the next decade...without question.
My husband has been a remote worker since 2005...began with a start-up that he sold with his two partners, and then he worked remotely for that company. That company was purchased by another company, and then another. The last company was the one that started down the "outsourcing" road, and he left when his previous boss went to another company and recruited him. But he's been a remote worker now for 2/3 of his career and is incredibly productive.
As for what one believes with respect to statistics....just google "productivity US economy" and you'll find a plethora of articles about it. Some of it has to do with the burgeoning AI boom, some with remote work...etc. But it's happening, and it's one of the reasons that the United States has fared far better than the rest of the western economies coming out of the pandemic.