Define: "Core Collaboration Days" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Schedule your dentist, doctor, and DMV appointments exclusively on these days."
Designated days of the week where all hybrid employees are required to be physically present in the office.
What does "Core Collaboration Days" actually mean?
"The HR rebranding of mandatory office days, forcing you to commute 90 minutes just to sit at a hot-desk and take Teams calls you could have taken from your home lab."
"Tuesdays and Thursdays are our designated core collaboration days to foster in-person synergySynergyTwo underperforming departments being mashed together so a VP can justify their annual bonus.."
"I drove an hour in traffic for our core collaboration days just to sit in silence with noise-canceling headphones doing firewall configs."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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