My firm just announced an RTO mandate for consultants three days a week, even though every single client I work with is remote. I haven’t seen my actual office team in months. What’s the point? How do you push back?

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There is no point except as an additional lens to drive efficiency (read as do layoffs)

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Go in late and leave early

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Yeah, hard to push back on this. Do you travel for work as well? That’s usually a replacement for RTO.

We have the exact same mandate and I also don’t work with anyone at my home office. I’m also in meetings all day so wouldn’t even have time to talk to anyone there. It’s dumb but you have to figure out if it puts your job at risk by not following the rules. I don’t go in unless my team is there, but everyone also just assumes I’m traveling. Definitely need to go in more though.

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They pay you, their choice.

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