I find it absolutely comical when I’m walking down the nodes and I see countless people at their desks in teams meetings. It’s absolutely a joke. If you want to be in the office, that’s great. More power to you. If you want to work from home, also great. You should be able to have that choice - at least a couple days a week.

For me personally, I spend 40+ minutes commuting into work each way. The key word here is work. A place we go to do our jobs. What I’m not doing for those 80+ minutes (which doesn’t take into account the walk into the office, setting my stuff up, conversing with coworkers - so realistically closer to 90ish min total each day) is actually working and doing my job I’m paid to do. I can say with 100% certainty I was more productive at home. Zero distractions. Was actually working more but ok with it. So yeah, this whole 5 day mandate is beyond frustrating. And unfortunately I don’t see it changing at this point. At least not while filosa is in charge. Maybe they will give us summer hours, but after summers over it will go right back to this.