For RTO folks, are you working nonstop 8 hours at your desk? Not including lunch and coffee breaks. I don't always have enough work to sit at my desk 9-6. Some weeks I'm super busy, but other weeks not so much. Are we just stretching out work to sit at our desks all day? Can I leave a little early?

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I never sat at my desk all day when I was going into the office all the time for several decades. What really bothered me was when teams came out and interoffice texting. I would be typing to somebody and suddenly it would dawn on me that I could just get off my fat ass and go walk over to them and talk to them. And so I did.

What was even better was when people had offices. It was like going over to your friend’s house. More people would walk in and before you knew it, it was a party.

I feel bad for the youth of this field who never got that. Made all this crap worthwhile.

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I miss those days. I can barely remember them. Only time I’d talk to anyone from another office was either via email or phone.

Having a gathering and just shooting the shit in someone’s office was the best.

Who’s sitting at their desk all that time?

Go talk to people

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Yeah, I talk to people all day on purpose just to prove that RTO is shit and it kills my productivity.

I go in at 1:30 and leave at 5/6

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Remember the whole point of RTO was this imaginary concept of “spontaneous collaboration”. While I think that’s a bunch of BS, you should definitely get up and walk around and meet/talk to people, even if for the social aspect of it

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You don’t need to be working non stop for 8 hours a day, to call it an 8 hour work day.

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RTO = they’re trying to let go of people. So they make you quit… so they don’t have to pay your unemployment / severance / etc.

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I work 8-11, 1-330, and 7-830 or 9.

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It used to be that you could pop out and run errands if you were slow/had no meetings/work. Is it still like that? Maybe leave a coat on your chair and a water bottle w open laptop in desk?

Yes if your boss is cool w it.

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