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"I work for a Spanish company. It’s been seven or eight years, and we know each
other pretty well.
I’ve known and worked with the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) for like ten
years now. He’s a cool guy who wants stuff done.
Even before 2020, the work-from-home policy was extremely relaxed — you do you,
have things done by the time we need it, and we’re okay — so when the global
health crisis came, the transition was as easy as it could get.
In fact, as a company, especially on the tech team, we embraced the opportunity
and started hiring people from outside the city for a cheaper salary than in
the city but, for those people, a higher salary than the one they could get
without moving into the city. I even moved out of the city during that time.
Since [CTO] didn’t want to be a sales guy, the company hired a CEO in 2021, an
Englishman who came highly recommended and was stationed in his rural house in
the English countryside. He looked like a cool relaxed guy for a while.
Once the health crisis ended, [CEO] started pushing rather heavily for a return
to office (RTO) for everyone. He made polls and sent lengthy emails to everyone
about how this fostered relationships and whatnot.
[CEO] got really pushy, even complaining to [CTO] about it. Every time he came
to Spain, people who lived around the city would go to the office, just to be
there, so [CEO] was happy.
And then, one time, [CTO] decided that he had enough with the whole RTO mandate
and [CEO] complaining."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
