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BradJ
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Has anyone’s work place reversed their plan for returning to work? Ours has pushed back the go live date another month.
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BradJ wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:42 pm Has anyone’s work place reversed their plan for returning to work? Ours has pushed back the go live date another month.
I expect that mine will reverse the plan by the end of the week.

Our state put in place temporary workplace safety standards requiring various things. We had thought those would be lifted/loosened around August 1st, enabling a full return to work. I just can’t imagine the state relaxing the rules at this point.
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Nope. We're still optionally 3 days in the office and 2 days at home. I've been going in 5 days a week, but with the recent surge, I'm optionally wearing a mask when in the office, and I'll probably go back to 3 days in and 2 days at home. I just need better lighting for my webcam.
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Nope, we have been in the office the whole time.
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runner3081 wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:43 pm Nope, we have been in the office the whole time.
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runner3081 wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:43 pm Nope, we have been in the office the whole time.
Wow, I've been to the office exactly twice in 16.5 months. Not sure I could remember how to get there :wink:
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I went in last week to clean my desk out. I'm WFH from now on. :beer
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Mine is all over the place, some fully at work, some fully remote, some half and half, and it will be revisited each quarter.

I'm in IT, and higher ups have said that as long as work gets done, we're OK, (unless they change their mind).

They have said that they will give 2 weeks heads-up so childcare can be arranged.

But I've got a couple of people that I would fly under the radar if I was going to lose them by forcing them to return. In this market remote IT for talented people is an easy ask, at least for now .

If I lost them, I might as well retire.
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MathWizard wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:14 pm
They have said that they will give 2 weeks heads-up so childcare can be arranged.
OK this made me laugh out loud. If they think most people would only need two weeks they are seriously out of touch.
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Beachey wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 11:03 am
MathWizard wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:14 pm
They have said that they will give 2 weeks heads-up so childcare can be arranged.
OK this made me laugh out loud. If they think most people would only need two weeks they are seriously out of touch.
Yes, it's been a long time since the people making decisions had young kids.

It's either that, or I was treated crappy when I was in their position, now it's time
to "pay it forward".
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Nope, the large majority of the staff have been full-time in office since last November with no changes. I am full-time WFH, although I am generally in the office most of Tuesdays for meetings and I randomly pop in for other meetings (it's a 7min walk to my office). My boss is an infectious disease specialist physician who is primarily responsible for making these decisions for the entire company, I am the only one of his direct reports full-time WFH. If I was asked to return to the office full-time, I'd strongly consider looking elsewhere although I have a great job.
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Ours got pushed back 1.5 months.
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We don't yet have a plan for returning to work. I haven't been in my office since March 2020. And, when we do go back, we are going to have a much more liberal telework policy.
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My place was pushing bigly to return to the office at least 2x a week, threatened people who went remote to come back. Suddenly the tone's softening a bit, we'll see what happens.
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When things were going in the right direction, we got update messages from HR pretty regularly, increasing as the vaccine became available. Now, with the mother ship in a bad zone for new Delta cases, it's been crickets. We're a sales office, so 5% of people are in the office anyways and we have zero customers who are allowing sales people in their facilities (which wouldn't matter because all the engineers are working from home). We can do webex from home just as easily as we can do it from an office.
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What I am curious about are those companies(including mine) who said certain employees can work from home "forever"... how many of them will reverse course in a year or 2?
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Mine has delayed things a month - it was supposed to be after Labor Day and now it's tentatively first week of October. But it sounds like it's all tentative and that they plan to monitor things month-to-month.

Our hybrid plan isn't finalized, but whispers are it might be heading in the direction of 2 days office/3 days remote.

Oh, and our state just passed a law addressing the local municipal income tax issue. I live in a township that does not have a municipal income tax, but I work in a city that does have a municipal income tax. The tax has always been withheld. Despite working from home, I've been stuck still paying the local municipal tax for the city my employer is in even though I'm not driving in to the office.

Thanks to a new state law, retroactive back to 1/1/2021 I am eligible for a refund on municipal taxes withheld for days that I work remotely and not in the city. This will be a nice little boon to the bottom line. Of course, that also means I DO have to pay the municipal income tax on days in the office. So sadly, going to the office is going to cost me $$$ (beyond commuting expenses) as I'll have to pay those municipal income taxes on those earnings.
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Beachey wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 11:03 am
MathWizard wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:14 pm
They have said that they will give 2 weeks heads-up so childcare can be arranged.
OK this made me laugh out loud. If they think most people would only need two weeks they are seriously out of touch.
Same here! I literally gasped.

We have been almost fully remote since the start of the pandemic, only one cubical-dweller allowed in the office at a time (people with offices and hence doors that close were allowed two at a time), everyone masked, etc. Now everyone in my department is vaccinated and we were planning to return to in-person work this fall once school was once again in session, probably with the option of working 2-3 days/week remotely if desired. Now who knows. The County just reinstated indoor mask mandates, for starters, and my colleagues who have kids too young for the vaccines are understandably anxious.
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MathWizard wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 11:16 am
Beachey wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 11:03 am
MathWizard wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:14 pm
They have said that they will give 2 weeks heads-up so childcare can be arranged.
OK this made me laugh out loud. If they think most people would only need two weeks they are seriously out of touch.
Yes, it's been a long time since the people making decisions had young kids.

It's either that, or I was treated crappy when I was in their position, now it's time
to "pay it forward".
That's nothing. In my place the department director only gave people 16 hours notice before bring everyone back. Fortunately I was still on vacation at the time and out child care arrangements were already set beforehand.
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My entire team and I have been WFH since March 2020. We slowly opened up our offices for certain individuals that want to be in an office a few days a week.

I think my company is still trying to figure out what the future holds. Not only because of COVID, but will we lose a bunch of people if we require them back in the office? I would certainly take some sort of a paycut to not ever have to get on a bus or subway again...
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rockstar wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:47 pm Nope. We're still optionally 3 days in the office and 2 days at home. I've been going in 5 days a week, but with the recent surge, I'm optionally wearing a mask when in the office, and I'll probably go back to 3 days in and 2 days at home. I just need better lighting for my webcam.

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Google is pushing back the return to office to Oct 18: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/28/google- ... tions.html
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