leaving a position because they adopt the archaic "its good to be in the office" policy

I feel you, we have a similar issue here. We have 100+ employees all in IT. I'm on a 5 person team of front end engineers. I work 99% of the time without leaving my coding screen and we only interact for 15 min stand ups sometimes for weeks on end. Our team is very independent of the rest of the company.

I could easily work from home 3 days a week, but we're only allowed to do it once... Why? Because the family atmosphere is important I guess, but we have no family atmosphere. Or so someone can come to my desk when they need me, which happens maybe 5 times a year.

To boot, all of our meetings are remote, because the department we actually work a lot with is in another state, we have two separate locations.

The way our company operates, it's like we live in a subdivision and each family lives in a house and we hate some of our neighbors, and some of our neighbors are ok, and there's this HOA board no one agrees with telling us how our grass should look and when the next block party is.

They try so hard to make everyone social, they schedule events to get people to mingle, sit at tables and chat etc, but we all work in isolated cubicles.

Bottom line, people don't want to be family at work, they want work life balance. My family is at home, they're who I say good night and good morning too. Work is work, it's business.

Really wish companies would stop trying to create a family mentality.

The way I read that is "we work you so hard, you might as well treat us like family, because you'll be here a LOT."

The lack of Work from Home days at companies also contributes in large part to traffic and accidents.... I wish the government would come up with some kind of tax break for companies that offer telecommute more than 50% of the time. Because if it would save the company 10 million a year in taxes you can bet they'd put out those Work from home days real quick.

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