It's such bullshyt. I feel these companies have to be paying people more money to get them back in office. Honestly, it feels miserable thinking about going back to office because I saved so much money staying at home. Also, I feel a major thing about mandatory RTO is due to managers being bored and want that power back. They're kinda powerless when we're in a WFH setting but in office they regain that power.
Hopefully my position doesn't force RTO because it's currently WFH but company is forcing RTO in 2026. It would be BS because the team i'm in is scattered all over Canada. However, I've had some co-workers in a similar position had to return to office and basically do the same shyt they were doing at wfh. None of the team members were in the same building but company still forced people to go to office.
....layoffs without laying off