another article notes from the official memo to employees: <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/17/salesforce-pressures-its-workers-back-to-the-office-as-layoffs-continue/" rel="nofollow">https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/17/salesforce-pressures-its-w...</a><p>> Select employees in sales, workplace services, data center engineering and onsite support technicians under the chief information officer will be required to come to the office four to five days a week, effective Oct. 1.<p>> All other departments – including marketing, legal and product teams – will be designated “office-flex” — meaning they must come in at least three days a week. The company’s other engineering roles are also in this bucket, although they will be required to come in only at least 10 days each quarter.<p>> Unless working from a client site, the ability to be fully remote will be granted only on an exemption basis, the new guidelines say.<p>> Per the memo, sent out last week, the guidelines are meant to “better clarify our in-person expectations.” To bolster in-person attendance, Salesforce will also roll out an internal dashboard to track data from employee badge scans (in the U.S. only), starting next month.<p>> The company stated that employees will have “full visibility” of this data, which will measure attendance against quarterly goals set by each team. Notably, the dashboard will also track the average amount of voluntary time off employees take, which is time they can use for community service efforts.
Employees should vote with their feet, and move jobs to companies that are remote friendly if they don't like these in-person office policies.<p>My guess is that WFH is worth some premium (aka, in-person pays more), and you as a worker will make a choice based in the premium you put on it. Currently, thisprocess has not been stabilised, and there exists no such premium yet. But it will soon, in a few more years