Anyone else in a bizarre 'hybrid' arrangement?

[Corporatepreggolady]

Just posting to see how typical my situation is.

I've been in my current company for eight months or so. When I started, I knew it was 3 days in the office, two days from home. All fine.

I started and there were three other people in my department that I sat with. Nobody in my direct team is in the office with me, they're around the world or WFH.

As time has gone on, these other people have left (and their roles not rehired) or been make redundant. So now I go into the office three days a week (it's tracked centrally) to sit on my own, doing Teams calls with other locations.

Is this the norm in big companies?! It's bizarre. I genuinely enjoy going into the office and meeting other people, but if I don't have a team there, why mandate it?

I may make a flexible working request to work two days in the office instead of three. At £30 a day travel costs, I'm happy to come in, but if I don't need to come in, it would make sense to save some money.

I have this. I work 3 days a week, two of which are in the office. I sit there on my own 9 days out of 10 so I have started going in less. Every now and then senior management start fussing about how all admins need to be in the office (although no one knows why, everyone in the company is supposed to be allowed hybrid and all the other staff work from home.)

they're off on one again now, we have a new senior manager throwing her weight around and asking questions about how often we are in the office and if not, why not. I have applied for another job that's in an office full time with other people who are also in the office full time. I am not sitting in an empty office all day while everyone else gets to wfh just because some new manager has decided i should when I'm perfectly capable of working from home.

To bs honest I find it beneficial.to be in the office but then there are people from other teams there who need to ask things from and it's just so much easier to walk by their desk and chat for a few mins to then have to send an email or chat message l. 9 out of 10 I get my aawer of what I need quicker by asking in person.

So depends on ur work and how u work.

It's madness to force you arbitrarily into going into the office several days a week just to end up then sitting by yourself on Teams calls which you can do from anywhere. Completely pointless. I would be job hunting OP. There's nothing worse than working for a jobsworth bullying line manager who makes you do pointless nonsense like this

I had this is my old job. I'd go in and sit on my own all day. If I didn't know colleagues in other teams I wouldn't physically speak to anyone but I would be on teams calls. It's presentism.

I don't get it. Even before the pandemic we only went in one day a week. One really productive day with our line manager, the whole team ironing out issues and sorting things out. We were about delivery not being seen.

If everyone came into my office now there just wouldn't be room either.