Boston-based employee's remote status revoked, forced to come into a WeWork twice a week with no one from his company on site: 'No one from my team is within 500 miles!'

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• My "in office" day is me sitting in a WeWork because the company doesn't have a real office in my state

  
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• Apparently, one of the reasons behind the Boston-based resident's requirement to go into the office was to appease the North Carolina-based residents. First of all, I bet if you took a poll from those employees, the vast majority of them would not care either way if their one coworker from Boston was staying home. Clearly, that was a line that upper management felt was justifiable enough to reiterate.

  However, as several members of this online community pointed out, there are some workarounds that the Boston-based employee can consider. First, taking a screenshot of his WeWork background and using it as his own background during meetings could work… provided that the image is convincing enough. 

  Alternatively, he could start looking for work elsewhere and when he inevitably lands a better offer, he could rub it in his boss's face by telling him that he got the job through mingling at the WeWork where he had to come in. In other words, he can frame his departure as a direct result of upper management's new bogus policy.

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