This. I’ve been at my job for a year as a remote out of state employee. All of the sudden, they decided we needed weekly team meetings and virtual team building when we had none before. My job is not collaborative, everyone on the team has a different role and most things can be handled over email/teams. I like my coworkers, but we’ve been working great together without all this crap. Even my manager doesn’t like it but it’s being forced on her from higher up, half the time she doesn’t have anything to share at the team meeting that couldn’t have been a one sentence email.

Edit to add: oh and these weekly team meetings have cameras on required, when before any of the few meetings we had never required this. Seems like one of the higher up read some article about ‘building virtual teams’ and went to town without actually stopping to think whether it fits.

Tons of places like this are having issues finding workers now or even good talent. Seems like some companies got the memo and other run by middle managers and IBM CEOs from the 1980s didn’t.

I’m hoping my CEO wants to try this out, as we’re one of the few companies in my area that’s permanently WFH. However it might be quite difficult as we’re a project based shop so having 4 day workweek might present some difficulty because we still need to match our clients work hours T_T