When I did work in an office, I didn't mind it, mostly because I didn't have a long commute, but I also had a door and a window overlooking a mountain. I kept the door closed and my music on. Some people thought I was antisocial, but you know what? I don't go to the office to be social when I have a dozen overlapping deadlines. What I cannot tolerate is working in a cubicle with noise all around me, people feeling like it's their right to barge in and interrupt, and annoying neighbors who put their meetings on speaker.
Ding! The big banks all have people mostly working in cube farms in big buildings. You hear the phone conversations and regular conversations of all kinds of people around you. I used to have to put my headphones in and listen to music (classical or gregorian chant usually) to try to drown out the noise so I could get some work done.
Oh, and your cube was not your own. You had to reserve a spot each day 2 weeks in advance at several of them (”hoteling” so they can maximize cube usage).
Frequently the other people on the teams I would be working on including my bosses were scattered all over the US and I wouldn’t even have one team member in the same city.
But I’ve just GOT to come into the office for that???? I’ve got to commute 45 minutes each way, pay a minimum of $15 per day to park not to mention gas, food, drinks, etc and I’m some kind of spoiled slacker if I don’t? LOL! In the words of Doctor Evil “how about no?”
“Perhaps these positions are redundant and they don’t need to exist?”
Correct answer.
The managers of the “keystroke gang” should also be fired. It is obvious their jobs do not need to exist.
Then I would take a very hard long of the next level of managers above them.
It is a good bet that most of them are redundant as well.