02-06-2025, 03:06 PM
(02-05-2025, 12:37 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: I had this discussion with my management 3 years ago who didn't understand my teams resistance to returning when, according to them, it's clearly beneficial. I could only explain my perspective, but I told them that any supposed business productivity benefits (which were really just vibes based) were awarded to the company while the costs of RTO were borne by the employees who now lose an extra 2 hours of their day, have to pay commuting costs, etc. Regardless, we returned to the office as we were told without further complaint. Despite generous pay increases, the entire team had resigned within 3 months.
A very different dynamic indeed. While in DTK no one was losing 2h per day to commuting (30 minutes to 1h more typical) we also did not have any generous pay increases. And yet, four years after we switched to a three-day hybrid model, we have only had one person (from about 25) resign, and that was for personal reasons.