Mandatory WFO - Should I look out for new roles?
The title is pretty self explanatory but I'd like to give some additional context.
I work at one of the stable, good biz unicorns of India. Good WLB, chill manager and work recently started to get interesting ( I joined ~10 months back). I have been getting bigger tasks and asked to look at the overall processes and monitoring.
The reason I'm looking for new roles is not because I'm a prick and too good for WFO but I've come from working for a seed stage startup for ~1.5 years. So, whatever work I get here I do it in 1/2 or sometimes 1/3rd the discussed timeline and mostly the rest of the time goes in playing office politics (design, product clarifications, minor updates and QA signoffs) which I strongly believe can be done from home.
Tl;dr - I get bored in the office and feel like I can use this time to learn something, build something or you know just some zazza đź’€
TC - 22 + 3 (I believe decent for 2 yoe?)
Frankly office time is spent on much better things than what you said — “office politics”. It’s a very very limited and myopic understanding of what office offers.
It's the same for me. Those who joined after vivid are asked for mandatory WFO. Though 2 team members are doing wfh and surprisingly who live in the city are doing wfh too.
Wlb is good for me but leave policies and management is soo poor in my company. I'm thinking to ask for wfh too. Doesn't make sense that more than 50% of employees are doing wfh here.