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In a similar situation we had a CIO come in trying to be a hard ass. Cancelled a 6 year wfh (pre covid even) policy of 3 days/week. People had moved 2 hours away, would come in to work one day, stay the night, work the next, and not return until the next week. It worked really well. Anyways this guy comes in and says on a Friday that starting Monday absolutely NO WFH. At all. HR got involved and made it clear, NO EXCEPTIONS. So what happens when our servers, DB, data processes, fuck up for our public facing agency that requires 24/7 uptime? No one answers. We had started leaving our laptops at work because if we can't wfh during business hours we're definitely not going to do it for emergencies and be perpetually on call. No one is available. Once a guy answered that lived 2 hours away. He told him he would need to be paid OT for the entire travel time and the CIO agreed. He drove in, reset a server, then went home. Took maybe 15-30 minutes. I personally don't feel it's worth it but the guy did get 1.5 pay for driving basically. The CIO never did change that policy and in the years since I left something like 60% of the agency has turned over. People crying int he hallways (even when I was there) and they had to fire all the top brass, including the CIO, to try to right the ship and it didn't work. Last I heard they hired a "morale booster" position that does fuck all.