Pros
The work from home policy was great as it made work life balance fantastic, until we were forced to return to office. Small company of 20 employees, you know and work with almost everyone as you can jump from project to project. Learn good soft skills. Work can be fulfilling and client interaction is good. Still lenient on appointments for wfh. Great coworkers.
Kontras
We had an anonymous vote on how we will operate going forward. This turns out to be pointless and completely ignored. Most employees voted to stay WFH, however, we were told last minute we are going to be hybrid, mandatory. As soon as we started, at the end of the day we were given a last second slack requirement to be full time office, and a important project was promoted as the reason and ended up being a scapegoat. The deceitful nature of this transition has left a very sour taste now. Very small raises probably because of renewing the lease of the office space. Due to commuting costs, personal time loss, gas money, eating out costs, tolls, and inflation this might as well be reduction. Morale for being forced into office is decreasing. Stagnant growth opportunities.