Can a company say "We're like a family here" while at the same time preventing people from working from home? Isn't the home where most work for your family would be done?

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Lol. No company is a family (not even the family owned ones) . A company has one objective - profit and margin generation. If WFH aligns with that - they do it otherwise they don’t. As simple as that .

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I mean… who would stop them? The misleading company motto police?

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🚩any company that says we’re like a family here

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Not allowing WFH is a big red flag. If you can’t trust me I can’t trust you

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No, now go clean your room.

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Is Michael Scott the CEO?

The company and team I work for now said that and I realize they really mean it. When coworkers are sick, people will offer to pick up groceries for them and help take over their tasks. My boss also invites our team over for lunch and breaks to go to the employee store. We have a group chat to go on bike rides or to the mall and our families are always invited if we want to go.

Seems like the companies that most frequently say things like this often use “warm and fuzzy” language to exploit their workforce into ignoring healthy professional boundaries. Last firm I worked for that did this unofficially followed the phrase with “and that’s why you all need to be on-call during weekends/holidays to deliver for the team”. Definitely a red flag if an employer uses this, we aren’t working for free and neither is management, not sure how that is like a family whatsoever.

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