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Remote worker confronts wife after she accuses them of ‘chooing’ kids away during virtual meeting with their boss: ‘It’s not ok to come in while I’m working’

Melissa Knudson

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‘9-5, in Office, No Exceptions’: A New CTO Ended Remote Work and Imposed Strict Office Hours, Then He Discovered How Much Work Employees Were Doing on Their Own Time—and How Much the Company Relied on That Mutual Goodwill

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People still think that working from home means you are not working I know we sometimes work in our pajamas; I know it seems like we’re chilling on the computer, but we are most definitely working. “Just on the computer” transforms cognitively demanding labor into something resembling leisure. It’s not.

Remote employee can’t stop his family from interrupting him during work hours: ‘I have tried the obvious stuff: closed door, calendar blocks, Slack status, headset, and a sign. It helps for a day or two, and then everything drifts back to how it was’

Office Snitch Apocalypse Nothing is worse than a snitch at the office. Seriously, there are other ways to get what you want. How does negating a privilege for everyone else make you happier? It literally has no positive impact

Hall-monitoring coworkers ruin WFH for everyone by being petty: ‘These colleagues started going directly to my boss to ask why they "haven't seen me around much" and literally logging my office attendance’

Working from home is a blessing and a curse at the same time You’re on your own; no one is there to police what you’re wearing or whether you’ve taken off your pajamas in the last three weeks. You promised it wouldn’t happen to you,

‘WFH Has Made Some Very Weird Habits Feel Completely Normal’: People Share What Strange Habits They Developed While Working Remote Jobs

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Employee quits after 2 years of staying on Zoom call with manager 8 hours a day every day at work: 'Never accept a job under these conditions'

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New hire refuses to comply with CEO's demand for a full return to the office after signing as remote employee: ‘I fell for a total bait and switch’

Employees are forced to pay $80 a month in order to park at the office they were forced to return to in a return to office mandate

Company forces fully remote employees to return to the office after 4 years of successful remote work, begins charging them $80 a month to park outside the building: 'I'm seriously considering just quitting over this'

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Employee gets blamed for boss's poor performance after boss disappears for 6 weeks, employee collects evidence to show HR: ‘I had not heard one complaint’

Work remotely but do it from the office? Remote jobs have their lights and shadows. Some days you don’t even get out of your pajamas, and you end up feeling like a giant slug. Some days you stop so many times

Boss Demands RTO Then Hosts a Google Meet With Everyone Sitting Right Next To Each Other: ‘We spent forty-five minutes talking to each other through microphones while making awkward peripheral eye contact across our plastic desk dividers’

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HR implements dress code for fully remote employees, demands 'business casual' in virtual meetings: ‘Do they think this will magically make us more productive?’

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Stressed-out mom works at the office on Fridays, even though she used to be able to work from home on Fridays.

Fully remote childless boss demands hybrid employee RTO full-time, despite having a child she needs to pick up from school early: 'That’s your problem to figure out. Your child doesn’t work for the company, you do.'

A remote employee making $75K does his stress-free job in the comfort of his living room.

Remote employee making $75K considers rejecting a senior job offer where he'd make $105K: 'It's 5 days in the office, a 45-minute commute, and obviously comes with a lot more responsibility.'

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He automated so much of his workload that he had very little left to do on most days—Manager tells remote worker that his status should never show "away"—he writes a program that feigns activity at all times

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Who are really the quiet quitters? Bosses discusses how is like to manage a group of remote workers, the good, the bad: ‘the quiet quitters aren’t the ones who everyone assumes’

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'Why does just going into an office job make you so tired?': Employees who work in site jobs open up about the disadvantages of going to work at an office every day.