- By Poorva Karki
- Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:09 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
The ‘Work From Home’ policy, which was pretty much unheard of before 2020, has now turned into one of the most opted-for modes of working for millions of employees across the world. However, despite its popular convenience, there are still some companies who choose to rather stick with even stricter ‘Work From Office’ rules, simply to make employees come back to the ‘routine’. Experiencing something similar, a Redditor shared about their office’s ‘no work from home’ rule, which the employees were supposed to follow even during a snowstorm. What the Redditor did in response, was something that left people impressed.
The Redditor, as per a now-deleted post, deleted ‘Teams and emails’ off their phone, during the off hours. The employee was also unavailable for an urgent call by their boss during off hours, as the Redditor simply chose to ‘stick’ by the ‘no work from home’ policy. A post about the same, soon after getting shared, went viral and left the internet impressed.
Most people agreed with the employee and dubbed it a ‘commendable trick’ to avoid the unnecessary office work that people are often assigned for their homes, the rest recalled their own tricks and tips that they often go for.
The now-deleted Reddit post was shared on X (formerly Twitter), by the handle ‘BladeoftheS’. The post was captioned, “Seems fair to me.” The post was shared yesterday and pulled 9.4M views from people.
Check out the viral post:
Seems fair to me. pic.twitter.com/Vae9wkhXCM
— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) June 22, 2024
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Taking to the comment section, people shared their take. “Good point. Have you noticed how they grimace when you ask to work from home, but when they need you on a support rota, you're suddenly able to do the most important work from anywhere?” a user said.
“My manager has done the same, he doesn’t have Teams on his phone and his response is the company never bothered to give a work phone and I'm not installing their monitoring software in my personal devices,” commented a second person.
“Last week I went to the office after 2.5 years. I had my laptop upgraded. Doing work in the office is an absolute nightmare. Noise, lots of distraction, small screens. I managed to do 15% of the work that I did at home. I plan to go to the office for my retirement only,” added a third person.