Pros
4 weeks where you can work from anywhere- 2 of which you will need to use for thanksgiving and Christmas weeks because if you don’t, you will be forced to come in the office those weeks for 3 days as well! Snacks are free but you pay for your own lunch.
Cons
As someone who was hired on with the assumption of 2 days in office per month, they threw a sudden change and no leeway for their employees, expecting us to come in 3 times per week. I took this job because I saw it as fair to come in twice since I live 1.5 hours away and have children that I pick up from school. As a mother, it’s unsustainable considering the salary is peanuts- $64k when you are years into your career and THEN be forced to drive the ridiculous commute— then be told to just figure it out with my children. The cost trade off for gas, paying someone to drop my kids to school/babysit, tolls, just ate my entire salary and I was forced to quit in spite of what I offered the team. With many companies returning to office, either make a reevaluation of the salaries you offer or cater to your employees and their lives. My job required no collaboration and I found myself coming to office to work from my cubicle anyway. The least they could have done was evaluate how far employees are, the nature of their job, etc. before forcing everyone to come in. Either pay your employees enough to offset the cost of coming into the office and offer free lunch or allow your workers to work remotely. When announcing the sudden change, they provided a platform to express concern anonymously and then began censoring it because they didn’t like the backlash. You don’t care for employee voices. It is unfair that just because of stroke of luck, anyone who happened to be hired with their workday listed as “remote” can just stay remote. Good luck missing out on talent and only retaining those who are desperate for a job.