I got dinged for office attendance in a review. However, more than half my team is fully remote and my firm has no formal office policy. I'm arbitrarily "suggested" to go to the office because I live an hour from it.

Can I fight the remark? It seems like an unfair criticism.

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The arbitrary enforcement of in person attendance expectations is infuriating if you happen to be unfortunately too close to your workplace, especially when a lot of people did the skedaddle during covid and got to keep their gigs.

Anyways, don't bring more attention to it by fussing with the comment. If you're a good employee, they probably won't fire you for this complaint if theirs.

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New strategy: go to the office and burn through AI tokens. No value delivered but smashing the KPIs (presence and AI adoption).

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Time to move even further away from your office so that this doesn’t happen again.

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They fired the last guy who tried that

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IME in office attendance is never equally enforced and is often used as a fallback excuse. In other words, if someone in mgmt has it out for you they will cite attendance as an “official” reason for administrative action. There will always be people that mgmt looks the other way on regarding in office attendance (“strong”performers, those with allies in leadership, etc).

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I don't really get how it can be used as an "official" reason if there's no formal policy and more than half the team is remote

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You can certainly fight it, but be prepared with a plan B if it goes nowhere: initiate malicious compliance (coffee-badging), suck it up, transfer or leave.

Find a counter offer and threaten to leave unless they make you fully remote.

Add your written perspective in the review or ask to have it removed but don’t make a big deal about it until you have another offer.

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