Return to the Office

Ropes & Gray LLP

I prefer working from home and thankfully can.
I live and work in California and recently found out through a KPBS podcast the state is planning to reduce the car traffic by 20% by 2030 - I think I h… more

Picking the right people at work to be friends with is important. And sometimes that means picking none of them.

There are so many positive articles about returning to the office and yet I haven’t met a single person who is in favor of weekly mandated dates. I personally feel that if an employee or role type has… more

Just jumping back into the job market. There seems to be no straightforward way to decipher what ‘hybrid’ means to each company and, yet alone, that individual hiring manager. For those who have been in the job… more

How do you tell your boss that she has too many non-work long conversations that get too loud with boisterous laughter and distracts those of us outside of her office trying to work?

I thought of texting her and saying:
“Can y… more

3-4 times a week onsite is not considered hybrid not flexible! Misleading job posts are my number one pet peeve right now. Also, reminder CA law required you post salary range.

If you have a flexible working situation right now, what makes you WANT to go into the office?

We were just informed today that our work from home/office is changing. If you work 100% in the office you get a private cube and get to park within the gates. If you work remote (only 1-2 days per w… more

Just returned to the office and have decided that someone should do a study on the correlation between job title and voice loudness.

I'm curious if ALL salespeople have distracting loud voices, or… more

Hi everyone! I’m an EA for a Property Management company, I wanted to get your opinion on a situation. We have an office manager, who is in charge of greeting clients and anybody who walks through the… more

Klick RTO 9/12 one set day a week.

I hate politics, which means I suck at Office Politics. Any advice, learning experiences, or insight for someone who knows he has to be better at it?

Curious to know if there are other people at WB Burbank struggling with going back to work. They want us back 3 days a week. Must be vaccinated and passcard is required to be filled out but security d… more

Anyone won the battle when being told you have to return to office but you want to stay remote? Not particularly interested in compromising considering I’ve been remote my entire tenure here, but they… more

I’m trying to transfer departments at my company and I talked to the MD of the department i wanna transfer to, and told him working remotely is a requirement to me, and he said he’s not sure if that’s… more

Too lazy to post the article, but Microsoft’s RTO is 2/28. 50/50 split for in office/wfh

What’s Omnicom’s policy on returning to office? Being told mandatory hybrid system will be implemented from Oct 4.

Google pushed back their return to office to January 2022 from October 2021

I have to have an official ADA convo with HR about requesting to continue to WFH and not move back to NYC. Has anyone gone through this process?

Is anyone’s company shifting to a hybrid in office/wfh model?

So we’re going back in Sept. or what? 🤡

Google’s return to office date has been pushed back to October 18

Grey just announced hybrid model beginning Sept 7, would like to see people in averaging 3 days a week but not mandatory

Does anyone know Tiktok's return to office plan?

Am very curious to hear about people’s companies’ hybrid plans! (If they have one).

My company will be in the office 1-3 days per week starting in September. They have made it very clear that the futur… more