Many people who prefer working in an office prefer to work with other people who are also in an office. They do not want to interact with people who are working remotely.
Just to be clear, this is a 100% fine preference to have.
In this case, a company saying, "Yeah get a coworking space or whatever and meet with the remote people on Zoom" is telling these employees how to live, exactly the same as telling a WFH employee to come into the office due to RTO.
And again, just to be clear, neither of these are bad things. It just depends on your perspective.
You complaining "your unwillingness to come to the office is forcing me to remain lonely in the office" is exactly the same kind of argument, structurally, as the incel argument "your unwillingness to have sex with me is forcing me to remain a virgin." Yes, there are some things that you cannot do alone, but that does not entitle you to force me to accommodate you.
Yes, they are. They are trying to get people to work with them who don't want to work with them. This is exactly the same thing as RTO does to WFH people.
And it's fine! It's just a preference and it's fine for a company to make a decision that makes some people upset.
Those people can deal with it or they can get a new job.
You didnt get paid for commute time earlier.
COVID recovered it for you.
one hour of your time in this century, is FAR more valuable than time in any other century - simply because you can spend that time on a multitude of pursuits to enrich your life than ever before.
Anyone ambitious, self driven will fight for those 2 hours + a day lost in commutes, because they can use it for themselves.
At the margin, people who needed a few hours more to accelerate their lives will have fled bad firms.
I am fine with RTO if you start paying me for those hours.
