> there isn't really a stack rank, and they're pretty careful about not fitting performance into predetermined quota buckets
That's what I thought too, but then in my first PSC as a manager when I was there I was added to a spreadsheet called "<org name> stack rank", where we had to rank everyone rated as Meets All, because we were 3 people short of our quota for <= Meets Most
70% is surprisingly low to me. I'm currently looking for startup roles, and it's genuinely difficult to find any that don't offer remote, to the point that I'm starting to seriously consider a career change.
> If they did a survey and collected opinions from their employees the decision would be pretty trivial.
I'm not so sure about that. My company recently announced that our offices wouldn't be reopening until at least November, and there was a lot of quite angry pushback from people who are desperate to get back.
That's one option, but personally I find remote utterly miserable and terrible for collaboration. I'd rather find a job where I see my colleagues in person.
The upsides for me of being in the office massively outweigh the downsides, but only if my colleagues are there too.
Mostly that by having remote co-workers I get many of the downsides of remote work without any of the upsides.
Once a few colleagues are remote, all collaboration has to assume remote as the default. Even if I'm in the office I'm still stuck with remote collaboration, but I still have a commute.
Personally, I'm the opposite. I have considered quitting as my company has been talking about remote work, but none of my team seem interested, so I'm sticking around for now. If a few people in my team went remote (or mostly remote), I'd probably quit.
That's what I thought too, but then in my first PSC as a manager when I was there I was added to a spreadsheet called "<org name> stack rank", where we had to rank everyone rated as Meets All, because we were 3 people short of our quota for <= Meets Most