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Over the pandemic, with everyone being remote, work hours increased dramatically (at least in my experience). Everything being remote made it possible to get things done after hours and without a commute, everyone had more time in their day for more meetings.
So I hope if they are making people come into the office now - they are prepared for less work to get done. No more 8:30am “quick catch up” meetings and no more 6pm “last minute client issue came up how do we fix it” calls. I’m commuting now. And my laptop is closed once I’m home.
If I can’t work from home, then the separation from work and home life comes back.
Also - the fact that parking at the campus is $25 a day is FUCKING WILD to me. Glad they gave us some free sandwiches, but if you want people back in the office, offer free parking and either free or heavily discounted transit passes. Also - amenities at the campus would have been a huge plus. They really missed the boat on that one. Throw in a gym, throw in a day care, maybe even a dry cleaners? There’s nothing in the building and there’s nothing really close to it.
There are so many little things too that seem like weird choices and design flaws in the building. Weird table placements and plugs in the floor that aren’t close enough to tables. Half the shit there doesn’t work for what we all need. The whole concept of people not having their own desks (share-space) was shown a long time ago to be detrimental to people getting work done. No offices for anyone is stupid.
All in all, I actually prefer working at the office, but I have a laundry list of things I wish they’d done differently.
After taxes. So… 5-7k of your pre tax salary.
Imagine having to go to that complex 3 times a week? Glad I got out!
What’s the best campaign to come out of all the agencies in that entire call centre since it opened?
I can’t think of any top tier work. Hopefully they’ve managed to book a lot of duct cleaning appointments though.
They made why turned out to be a dumb decision on the campus. COVID ensured it was, but probably was prior to it as well. Now that they’ve committed to paying for rent, they feel the need to fill the place. You’d think a place that talks about behavioural economics so much would recognized sink cost fallacy thinking.
Confucius says: If you build a big new call center and no one shows up to man the phones, does anybody call?
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They need people in office more so they can expense more for tax breaks. Duh.
Is John St still on John St
Yeah. john st didn’t have to move because Arthur runs WPP Canada and he founded john st… it’s a sign that he thinks the building would be the end to all the agencies’ unique cultures and he obviously gave his baby preferential treatment. It’s a bit of a big f u to everyone who works at any of the other agencies.
Also, you had a pretty serious typo there. I believe you meant to type “Is john st. still on John St.?”
Jeez I’m glad my office only requires us to come in once a week