A woman decided to quit her six-figure salary job after they demanded she come back to the office full-time.
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, most workplaces that could told staff to work from home, and even though we’re now more or less back to how things were, many workplaces have decided to keep remote working or offer a hybrid model, with some days from home and others in the office.
However, others have told staff they must return to the office full time - and for one worker that was enough to make her hand in her notice.
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Felicia, 53, worked as an administrator in Arizona on a six-figure salary. Up until recently, her place of work operated a hybrid model, with two days in the office and three from home - something she said was a ‘perfect’ set up.
Speaking to Insider, Felicia said she found she got ‘a lot more done’ on the days she worked from home as in the office there were too many ‘distractions and interruptions’.
She added: "I was going home and working four hours because I couldn't get the work done.”
And when the change was made to mandate all employees work full-time from the office, Felicia stuck it out for around a month before deciding to resign.
Felicia says, while she was stuck in traffic on her way into the office one day, she realised it was no longer working for her.
“I know how to do my job,” she said. “I don't need to be in an office to do my work.
"I just knew I didn't want to go back to what it felt like before."
She went on: "I just got to the point where it just wasn't working for me.
"And I walked away from over a $100,000-per-year salary to seek positions that have hybrid options so that I can have that work-life balance."
Felicia says that she isn’t the only person from her old workplace to leave in favour of a new job where they can work remotely some of the time.
Felicia says she’d even be happy to take a lower paying job, as long as it offered her hybrid working, which she says helps improve her work/life balance.
"The payoff is the driving and the traffic and the stress of being on the road five days per week versus being able to do the very same work and more from the convenience of the hybrid option," she said.
Claire Reid