The Return to the Office Has Stalled

  Working from home is no picnic,
  and neither is it a sin;
  I rue those who think it is other
  than labor and struggle within.

  Simply refuse, my comrades,
  stand fast and don’t go in;
  parry threats, demerits, evals,
  if fired, grok leetcode again.

  Unless I’m literally starving,
  and maybe not even then;
  will I ever inhabit a cubicle
  trapped in the office again.

I changed teams & went from being the only person on my team to report in (1x a week because they closed my in-city office, as opposed to this suburban HQ), to now having 1 other person in office. Most of the manager types have filed various exceptions, which none of the workforce is keyed into; we simply see empty desks which look like they should be part of this absurd corporate whip cracking.

It's hard to imagine these RTO attempts going anywhere.

my company is no asking to back to office as earlier. even hire a good number of new hires to work from home, this was hard to get wfh approval before...

guess, over the past 3 years, the management saw everything worked well as folks in office...