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The told us that remote work was being ended and we needed to to return to the office. By that time people had built whole lives far from the office.
Yep. That was the organization exodus for my last job. Without any warning or planning, a state government agency, demanded everyone come back first week June 2021 when not a single other state office was even considering it. It was way out of left field and threatened to completely fuck up many people's lives and there was a mass exodus. Staff left agency wide. I think it was somewhere around 300 employees of a several thousand. Which may not seem like that much, but when 300 people quit in one agency over the course of two weeks, it's extremely noticable lol. The leadership at the top got berated publicly by the governor and they had to reverse course to stop people from leaving. But hey, I got a promotion, a huge raise, and got to demand my telework schedule because I instantly became more important hahaha.
The next exodus was my specific division. The deputy director we all liked and the media relations manager we all liked were fired out of nowhere by the same agency leadership that fucked up in the telework debacle. They placed their own drones in the two spots and it absolutely decimated morale. Not to mention the stool pigeons they selected are two of the most incompetent people I've ever had the displeasure of working with. I took a high-paying job with a federal contractor and bounced. Four people left in the few months following. They hired new people, two of which left within three months. I still talk to the social media manager who's still there and she fills me in on all the bullshit they're continuing with. Out of a public affairs division of 14 people, there's only six still there that were there when I left last September.
Yeah, it's when they install their bozo friends, who in turn hire more bozos. No quicker way to fuck up a business.
I had exactly the same experience. Me and whole bunch of other people left.
We were originally told to work from home would be permanent because they'd sold the office, but then they ended up buying a new office in a new location. I have no clue at all why they did this. WFH productivity was absolutely fine.
I have whole email chains saved where I explain to them, repeatedly, that I live 50 miles away from where the office is now. I don't have a car (I'm in Europe so that's normal), the old office was in walking distance of the bus station, the new office is in an industrial estate and on top of that due to covid cutbacks, public transport infrastructure had still not being brought back to pre-pandemic levels. They didn't care and said that we either had to turn up or be fired.
It didn't go well for them.