The obsession with RTO in office days is demotivating when most of the time your team isn’t even in the same country. Coupled with the fact that the in office networks are barely usable it makes for a tough sell.
Recently they have loaded so much “security” bloatware into our company computers that we can barely do our work since the software uses most of my system resources.
I was hired full time a number of years ago and through 5 years of annual raises and a promotion from level 2 to level 3, my current salary’s is worth less than 92% of my hiring salary when adjusted for inflation. They justify the low pay with the “equity” of stock grants and previously stock options which doesn’t equal out in the slightest when the stock underperforms year after year.
The final issue is the unwillingness to promote high performers. They demand you perform at the level of the role you are trying to move into before they will put your name in for a promotion which isn’t too unusual. However the “backlog” of promotions with HR is well over a year long, often times 2 years. During this time you will continue being paid for your current level while they get free extra labor out of you by demanding you perform at the level above despite dragging their feet to give you that role and compensation.
