Was a great place to work- now less so - Anonymous employee Own Company Employee Review

Despite a few issues,I thought this was the best company I ever worked for, and potentially would ever work for. And then they announced that despite the fact that we've been fully remote or hybrid since March 2020, they were going to make every employee local to the HQ come in either 5 days a week, or 3 days a week dependent on their department (even though most 5 days a week can do their job just as easily at home). This would not have been as big of an issue if it was not for the location of the office. Yes, most people who live far have the shuttles, but it is still a long commute and you have to first commute to the shuttle. It feels like they are babying the employees that they don't care that we did a great job working from home for so long, they no longer trust us to work from home for no reason (and this is after last summer when we first moved to a hybrid model they said they would not put any company wide mandates on coming into the office, complete lie). Yes our office is cool, and I would still go in without any requirement, but not every day, and the fact that they weren't giving anyone a choice makes it so much worse. Then fast forward a month and a half and there were the layoffs. Some teams were completely decimated, while others were barely touched. Most people have no idea what their decision making process was for how they chose to lay off certain people and not others. And now no idea what the future of the company looks like, or whether there will still be internal mobility with such a reduced workforce, or if there will be raises. The people left are confused and unhappy, with moral on the floor, but still being forced to come into the office.