Companies with business formal dress code used to do this. Then lolol happened. And now they feel dumb.
nah, dress code is small potatoes compared to āwhat r u doing if i canāt see u?ā
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Theyāre actually opposites. Dress code is more āWhat would I think about you if I do see youā
Answer to both: None of your goddamn business
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nope, what u are doing is every employers god damned business (literally)
every bad employer
yeah, go find an employer who doesnāt care what u do. Every ees wet dream (mine included)
I think thereās caring what you do over a period of a week and caring what you do each hour of the day, where you two are probably talking about different things
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Yeah Iām not sure what employer youāre talking about. But history proves that financial companies are forced to follow the footsteps of tech companiesā work culture. Covid only hastened that progress.
Are you suggesting ping pong tables and bunks above desks are inevitable for actuaries?
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iām hoping we get napping pods
Maybe before that was the direction it was going. Most of the newer (insurance) offices do offer a lot of amenities.
But since COVID, WFH will be the direction tech companies are heading, and other sectors will have to follow. I know one of my ex employers are getting one of the headquarter buildings completely, because no one wants to go back to the office.
Firms have definitely gone the way of relaxing dress code and more flexible hours, both of which were a thing in tech before others, but I donāt think that implies tech is a leading indicator. There are all sorts of work-life features of working in tech that finance/insurance has most certainly not adopted and I think weād mostly agree are unlikely (like ping pong tables and desk bunks, or starting work at 10am).
Iām going with: companies that own their buildings or are stuck in (or too expensive to get out of) a long-term lease want their employees back in the office.
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I think it does because more and more insurance relies on data and predictive analytics. Top talents in these areas will not even touch you if you operate so differently from tech companies, so youād be getting the scraps.
insurance has always had the scraps. Insurance is what u do after your real dreams are shattered
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These kind men from the compliance department will be with you momentarily.
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There are ping pong and pool tables three floors down from āmineā in the officeā¦or at least there were back in February of last year.
Wednesday will be 5 weeks until we go back to the office. Iām taking 3 days of PTO just to kick it off more, then Iāll get the 3-day weekend to delay it a little more. Sounds like the CL group will be all in the office, Iāll be the only hybrid. All the PL folks will be remote, except for the manager whoāll be hybrid.
Not sure whoās looking more forward to it: me, because Iāll get to see people and interact with others, or Mrs. Hoffman because then I wonāt bother her.
Desk bunks??? Huh??? Whaaaa??? 
Tiffās tech company is āencouragingā employees to come back to the office 2-3 days per week starting in September, with fully WFH employees having to do some HR rigmarole to get approval.
Iām not a WFH employee, but I also have no reason to be at the office (manager and pseudo manager in New Jersey and Canada respectively). Thereās other teammates I donāt work with that should be thereā¦ and thereās also the fact that my work campus is baller. But Iām lazy and will probably not go in unless husband also drives in and makes me go.