Of course the aren’t required to ask, my post never said they were.

I’m not sure if you’ve been reading other comments in the thread here. There are lots of people not even getting calls back for job interviews. The market is flooded with tech workers from all the layoffs. Having an amazing resume at this point doesn’t guarantee you anything. Apple is trying to avoid laying people off and paying severance pay by trimming the workforce by inconveniencing them instead.

They aren’t asking anything, that’s the point. Employees all over the world stepped up and kept these companies afloat during mass shut downs, and in times when they would’ve otherwise gone under, or atleast not been profitable. The thanks they get is to be forced to come back it. When instead they should be enticing or at least only asking employees to come back in.

I agree with some points of your assessment. I was training some people pre-Covid, and things certainly changed after Covid wfh. You know what though, I also changed. Instead of getting up and writing on a whiteboard we hold Teams sessions, where I share my screen, or I produce how-to videos, or sometimes I have someone else share their screen while I instruct. Just because something was always done a certain way doesn’t mean that’s the way. We as mentors have to learn to adapt, and be inclusive in a virtual environment. Now instead of training one person at a time at their desk when they have a question, I reach the whole team if I need. While there are certain circumstances like you mentioned, that would not be an issue if you were discussing this in a group manner.

It’s the companies policy that they just enacted, after years of it not being. Your statement would make sense if these employees didn’t just spend years at home keeping the company afloat, only to be told to comply with the new policy or leave.

Completely agree. I remember the “going to the office” days. We’d talk about news in the morning, do some work, have a hour meeting where some work got done or was talked about. Then we’d all head off across town to some random lunch spot one of us picked. It definitely wasn’t a close spot, and always took over an hour. At 4 we were all ready to hit the door.

Fast forward, I wake up 15 minutes before work, work until lunch, play with my daughter for 30 minutes, then usually continue working until 5 or later.

Before wfh I was sitting in rush hour traffic for hours a day, not getting any work done during that, or any father-daughter lunch time. It was lose lose for everyone. It’s beyond me why companies are fighting to have people back, unless management just wants to feel important again checking on people at their desks.