Personally, my workplace is now a terrible place to work since the pandemic. It was fine before when I had my desk with my cabinet and all my stuff there, and my colleagues were sitting right beside me. I actually enjoyed going there and I felt at home.
We're now supposed to hotdesk, using a terribly designed booking system (Planon) that people routinely ignore, sparking many conflicts. It doesn't do things that could actually be useful like to allow you to find colleagues wherever they may be or try to suggest similar roles to sit together.
The desks are now include a variety of useless types like some with bean bags or 'creativity pods' with funky colors but almost no desk space to actually work. Most of them are just a way to inflate the desk count because they can be squeezed into corners not big enough for an actual workspace.
We only have a tiny locker, sometimes so high up you can't see in or so close to the floor we have to sit on the floor to access it. Half the desks have non working screens or docks that aren't being fixed, we're now supposed to bring our own cable locks, mugs, headsets etc and no longer have floors dedicated to departments. So us IT people trying to concentrate are sitting beside sales goons loudly screaming into the phone all day.
To make matters worse, the Spanish government decided that the Aircon may not be lower than 27 degrees Celsius which in fact is so hot that it violates their own labor safety laws. It's literally a sweat shop.
All in all it's really a terrible place to be now and only the hipsters from HR actually like going there to what they call the modern workplace. I'm sure it's because they're not actually working anyway because they sit around chatting all day.
The company is saying we must return to the office to maintain the feeling with the company. Well I'm feeling something alright. We clearly are only there to make their hipster office look busy so I view the company with the same disgust as they apparently do us.
I wonder if it's the same in all companies. I'm not leaving because I have to give up a lot of security and my current boss is luckily ignoring that push to return to the office a bit.
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Personally, my workplace is now a terrible place to work since the pandemic. It was fine before when I had my desk with my cabinet and all my stuff there, and my colleagues were sitting right beside me. I actually enjoyed going there and I felt at home.
We're now supposed to hotdesk, using a terribly designed booking system (Planon) that people routinely ignore, sparking many conflicts. It doesn't do things that could actually be useful like to allow you to find colleagues wherever they may be or try to suggest similar roles to sit together.
The desks are now include a variety of useless types like some with bean bags or 'creativity pods' with funky colors but almost no desk space to actually work. Most of them are just a way to inflate the desk count because they can be squeezed into corners not big enough for an actual workspace.
We only have a tiny locker, sometimes so high up you can't see in or so close to the floor we have to sit on the floor to access it. Half the desks have non working screens or docks that aren't being fixed, we're now supposed to bring our own cable locks, mugs, headsets etc and no longer have floors dedicated to departments. So us IT people trying to concentrate are sitting beside sales goons loudly screaming into the phone all day.
To make matters worse, the Spanish government decided that the Aircon may not be lower than 27 degrees Celsius which in fact is so hot that it violates their own labor safety laws. It's literally a sweat shop.
All in all it's really a terrible place to be now and only the hipsters from HR actually like going there to what they call the modern workplace. I'm sure it's because they're not actually working anyway because they sit around chatting all day.
The company is saying we must return to the office to maintain the feeling with the company. Well I'm feeling something alright. We clearly are only there to make their hipster office look busy so I view the company with the same disgust as they apparently do us.
I wonder if it's the same in all companies. I'm not leaving because I have to give up a lot of security and my current boss is luckily ignoring that push to return to the office a bit.