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Yet another company doing RTO layoffs to avoid paying severance
Financials coming up too. Got to make it look like they're 'taking action' on poor performance.
I hate how inhumane money makes us.
It's odd too. A lot of places have offices in various cities too. So you can live in one city, and your team works in a different city or state. So their micromanaging isn't possible since you'll be at a completely different office. It just doesn't make sense. So we enter the "quiet layoff" stages.
Next headline will read, "Have companies started their own version of quiet quitting by forcing employees back to the office in an effort to get them to quit or he fired."
Yeah my company’s office is 20 miles from where I live. I rarely go into the office, usually just for company events. Because the entire team I manage is based in India… so I would just be going into the office to have virtual meetings there instead of where I live. Thankfully they are on a fully remote policy, if they decided to change that I’d probably seek another job
I do exactly this 3 days a week…
I would probably voluntarily go in 1-2 days a week because it’s nice to get out sometimes. However, a mandatory 3 days feels dumb.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2023/06/06/companies-are-quiet-quitting-too-and-its-a-bad-business-practice/?sh=131d164c9e60
That's hilarious.
Now now, some of the executives probably sincerely miss harassing their employees.
100%
Is there any case law on whether RTO constitutes constructive dismissal for unemployment purposes?
Nah. The managers prefer in-office and companies are addicted to "corporate culture" which they can't control if you're working from home.
It has nothing to do with firing people (unless you want the most competent people to quit) nor does it have anything to do with real estate (no company will try to help fix a collective action problem voluntarily unless the attempt gives good PR or profits)