'My 100% WFH job turned into a 100% office job': Worker hired in remote role finds themself forced to come into an office
Workplaces across the world, but in Corporate America especially, are currently facing an erosion of remote work, which was once something that was discussed as a wishful fantasy but then made into reality through the necessity of the pandemic. Despite record productivity and record profits through the remote working period, the cogs of corporatism have again shifted, fueled, and turned by aging executives and managers who can't handle being in the presence of their families—and can't fathom that anyone else would prefer to be. So, employers turn back again towards demonizing the creature comforts their working peasants had grown to love and again demand their presence at a desk in a cold great room for nine hours a day for eight hours of pay.
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This worker shared their current predicament of being asked to work from a company office despite being hired as a fully remote worker. Some have been calling this a "bait and switch," and while it is arguable that something along those lines is happening, there seems to be more of an erosion of expectations happening here on both sides. There is at least some logical reasoning in this scenario in the line of the fact that the worker's circumstances changed to allow them access to a company office. Still, 30 minutes isn't nearly as close as it sounds and, at the very least, compensation for their new commute is in order.
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Really, the worker's mistake was informing their employer that they were going to be moving house in the first place. They're remote, and since they moved to somewhere in the same, it wouldn't make a difference to the employer unless they were given a reason to think about it. Then, once the worker was asked to come in and help out at the company's location 30 minutes from their new home, their fate was sealed. The worker wouldn't have been able to decline without seeming to be difficult, and the employer now had no reason to doubt the worker's ability to come into an office location. As the proverb famously warns, give them an inch, and they'll take a mile.
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