• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    There is a guy in our group who had a special arrangement because his wife was sick so they allowed him to WFH regularly as long as he came in for certain things.

    After Covid, they decided everyone needed to be back in the office NOW and didn’t want to have to deal with people whining because some people got a special pass that was in place before Covid, so they took it away from him.

    Instead of answering the hard (obvious) questions and being irritated for a finite amount of time, they made this guy upend his whole life (he lives many hours away) and that of his family - to return to work on a regular basis.

    Failure of fucking leadership right there.

      • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s quite possible he had no choice since his health insurance was likely tied to his employment. If his wife was also on that insurance, it could be too big of a risk to drop it.

    • legios@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I’ve set up ‘informal working arrangements’ for a few people in my team because of family arrangements, health etc.

      I might have also told one of the execs that I thought the return to office policy was BS while tipsy one night. He did agree though…