Company Ends WFH Policy Citing 'Team Building,' Sparks Wave of Resignations; Check The Viral Reddit Post

The Reddit user mentioned that they had turned down several job offers solely due to the remote work benefit provided by their current employer

A recent Reddit post gained significant attention after a user expressed frustration over their employer's abrupt decision to revoke its work-from-home (WFH) policy in the US. The anonymous poster, who joined the company less than a year ago, shared their disappointment with the change, highlighting chronic pain and the advantages of avoiding a daily commute as primary reasons for accepting the position.

The Reddit user mentioned that they had turned down several job offers solely due to the remote work benefit provided by their current employer. However, following the company's email stating that they are "building a stronger team" has led to an exodus of employees, with the original poster (OP) stating, "People have already started quitting. I wish I could too. Screw companies that act like this."

The post has since attracted over 7,000 upvotes and 500 comments, with many users expressing concern about the trend of employers retracting remote work policies. One internet user shared a similar experience and wrote, “It happened at my job and everyone within 50 miles of an office has to go in. I work from TX for an NJ office. Since I'm closer than that to the local office, I have to go in 4 days a week. I was hired as full remote but apparently all of it was verbal from a manager who no longer works there and nothing in the contract states WFH. Meanwhile, I'm now a building with 3 people because all of the other locals live more than 50 miles away and can stay WFH. Now I have a 45-90 minutes commute each way instead of 50 feet to the couch. Any suggestions on fighting would be appreciated because this is killing my mental health.”

Another user suggested that the company’s goal is to make people leave; hence, they implemented this policy. The user wrote, “People have already started quitting. This is 100 per cent the goal. They want people to quit so there is no severance or hassle. Company I may or may not work at did a huge RTO propaganda push earlier this year. They gave people a distance/radius mandate. If closer than like 50 or something miles mandatory RTO. Everyone I work with, a very large group in a huge company, EVERYONE is on calls. If someone is in the office, I would never know. It's a global workforce, timezones in EVERY CONTINENT. Return to WHAT office? I'm on a call with someone from India, I can't commute to their office and they can't commute to mine. ZERO of us have returned to office because, it would only be satellite offices with random people we don't even work with. It would be the same as going to a starbucks to take confidential calls. So basically our entire huge department has ignored RTO and management realizes they can just pretend we're RTO even tho they know zero of us are.” 

The user added, “Their real goal is to get people to QUIT AND to juice up the large offices, the main offices, so their investment into commercial real estate starts trending up again. They hate the empty office spaces because they OWN them and want to rent them out at high rates. The Board of Directors, CEO and all the C suite ALL OWN or Lease those commercial properties and this is all about their profits. People quitting helps their personal profit. High commercial real estate rent helps their PERSONAL profit.”