Why is the company so rigid?
I've been here a few years now and I'm still struggling to understand why the company is so hard set in their ways, especially when similar companies seem to have more modern approaches to work life.
The WFH policy is barely a WFH policy. there's not even enough days to take a WFH day once a week for the whole year. There's no reason we couldn't be getting at least 1 or 2 WFH days a week like other companies. In all honesty, most jobs at this company (and most companies) could be fully remote with little to no change in how the job is done or productivity. I can confidently say that in my few years of being here, I can count on one hand the amount of times being in the office actually seemed necessary. Most of the time, you just spend 30-60 minutes commuting every day to sit at your desk and have every meeting and message be over teams anyway, so what's the point of coming in?
Also, it seems like this company is very reluctant to allow any relocation. It's one thing if you're trying to switch practices, but from what I've gathered speaking to coworkers and hearing their stories, it's very hard to convince them to let you switch locations while remaining in the same practice, too. Unless the location you're leaving is way understaffed or the location you're going to is way overstaffed, it really shouldn't be an issue. One coworker in my practice but a different department had to fight with upper management to transfer cities even though he had been hear for over 6 years and was a really good performer. And the company just didn't seem to have a good reason not to let him except for control.
Idk, overall it just seems like as a company BMcD is trying to remember the glory days of corporate power where everyone came into the office and stayed at one location their whole lives, whereas other companies have adapted to modern work-life and allow relocation and WFH much more readily.