Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down': Donald Trump's Return-to-Office Mandate Is Going Terribly
Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED the return-to-office order has resulted in widespread chaos, plummeting productivity, and significantly reduced services to the public.
Politics aside, new research shows there are good financial reasons to back working from home
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-politics-good-financial-home.html
2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies
—The Register
｢ The findings come from a survey of 26,000 plus staff that operate in 35 markets, including 2,548 respondents in tech, and fly in the face of more and more corporations issuing return to office mandates and demanding long working hours ｣
The email update is actually that the water is not poisonous. Success. #rto
Come to the office they said. 3/4 elevators are broken they said. The water is slightly poisonous they said. Collaborate. #rto
You are a telecom company!
How come your employees can't use your service to do their jobs wherever they are?!
Telecom tells employees they won’t get bonuses if they don’t follow RTO policy
@briankrebs Because Mastodon posts tend to be ephemeral and because I no longer trust corporate social media AT ALL for any kind of longer-term curation of politically-sensitive material of cultural importance, I have captured Marisa's video and Bluesky post on Erosblog:
Instead of forcing #RTO, the CEO of Cameo offered employees a $10,000 raise, catered lunches, gym memberships, and free parking if they start coming back in four days a week
I’ve #WFH for nearly 20 years so I probably wouldn’t take this. But at least it seems like a nicer and smarter way to enact such a policy. What do y’all think?
Edit: It has been pointed out that this announcement reads more like a “this way or the highway” statement. Guess we’ll see.
They finally admitted it. RTO is to save all the overpriced coffee shops and other non-essential bullshit.
“Downtown Boston's future relies on more than return-to-work orders, says new report.” 
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon slams staff's RTO pushback
—Fast Company
｢ Dimon demanded more efficiency and stressed that employees have a choice whether to work at JPMorgan. The CEO told them not to be mad at him, and said that it was a free country ｣
IT-jätti Dell on päättänyt kieltää etätyöt kokonaan
Yhtiö yritti viime vuonna pakottaa työntekijänsä takaisin toimistoille kertomalla, että etätöihin jäävät työntekijät sivuutetaan jatkossa ylennyksistä. Puolet työntekijöistä valitsi silti mieluummin etätyöt.
Nyt sekä etätyöt että ns. hybridityö kielletään yhtiössä kokonaan ja työt tehdään viitenä päivänä viikossa toimistolta käsin.
@JessTheUnstill you nailed it!
True story: My company's CEO (~80k employees world wide) flew cross country to come to our subdivision (~500 employees) twice in the last 12 months. First he announced that people would need to #RTO 2 days a week and that this will be tracked. Then he and the company's President showed up for a #TownHall announcing that we are back to normal, Covid was over, and we have to #RTO at least 4 days a week. He apparently was told that there would be major push back from the audience telling from his body language. Surprisingly nobody in the audience even responded with a single comment. We simply continued #WFH. After several weeks it was clear that only some managers and those afraid of being fired showed up regularly. Of those many only to grab a coffee and clock in before leaving again to #WFH. The last thing that was announced, even so not officially, was that we'll "stay flexible" as this was our strength 
#TheyCantFireEveryone #StandUnited
> "American taxpayers are wasting billions to pay for owned and leased federal office space that remain largely vacant" says the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
If the office space isn't necessary to do the work, then the office space is a waste whether or not you force people to work in it.
Companies: We value free speech and we want employee engagement.
Employees: Mandatory return to office 5 days a week is bullshit, maybe we should unionize.
Companies: Not like that
#RTO
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/jpmorgans-return-to-office-mandate-spurs-internal-pushback/485483
Employers dock the pay of remote workers
｢ Companies hope that lower salaries will encourage remote workers back to the office where they can waste their time watching dull PowerPoint presentations given by middle managers who essentially have nothing to do ｣
https://www.fudzilla.com/news/60328-employers-dock-the-pay-of-remote-workers
Amazon has demanded that all of its employees return to the office full-time, five days a week. Now, as those workers head back to the office, officials in the company’s home base of Seattle are warning that the policy may clog up local traffic routes. Read more at @Gizmodo. #Amazon #RTO #Seattle #Traffic #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/jvknde
