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Return-to-office policies are driving people to sell their homes - even at a loss
(finance.yahoo.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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There is a guy in our group who had a special arrangement because his wife was sick so they allowed him to WFH regularly as long as he came in for certain things.
After Covid, they decided everyone needed to be back in the office NOW and didn’t want to have to deal with people whining because some people got a special pass that was in place before Covid, so they took it away from him.
Instead of answering the hard (obvious) questions and being irritated for a finite amount of time, they made this guy upend his whole life (he lives many hours away) and that of his family - to return to work on a regular basis.
Failure of fucking leadership right there.
It's quite possible he had no choice since his health insurance was likely tied to his employment. If his wife was also on that insurance, it could be too big of a risk to drop it.
Btw, this is part of the reason the ruling class fights against single payer. Health insurance is just another shackle around the working class' neck.
They also take 2-3 months to kick in, and that would also mean potentially resetting a deductible that has already been met, and it's very hard to tell if everything they need will be covered. I'm sure their decisions were not made lightly.
He's likely looking for a better job as we type. But he's got to plan ahead for the jump.
Easy to be brave with your own life but would you kill your wife on this hill? Or your child?
I've set up 'informal working arrangements' for a few people in my team because of family arrangements, health etc.
I might have also told one of the execs that I thought the return to office policy was BS while tipsy one night. He did agree though...