- My partner, who works at JP Morgan, and I have worked from home together for a year.
- Now she is forced to return to the office because JP Morgan issued a RTO mandate.
- I am concerned that this will remove the quality time we spend together, and this has destroyed our goals.
My partner works at JP Morgan, and she recently received the full -time RTO mandate of the company.
She and I have worked side by side in our house for the past year. Since she joined JP Morgan in 2022, she has worked from home two days a week. In the meantime, I have worked from a distance as a freelancer in sports marketing.
Starting in March, my partner will have to go to the office four days a week-and this is only due to the lack of table space in the country. After being selected? The assumption is that it will be in the full -time office.
My partner and I have spent most of our relationship taking advantage of the ability to work remotely.
After being told that its employer, JP Morgan, is now looking for full-time hours, I am concerned about how our relationship will be affected-not only in the near future, but also our long-term goals.
Work from home brought us together
My partner and I both live annoying social lives. Time spent at home and in each other’s company is precious. Two days a week working side by side may not sound like a quality time, but it involves many.
We usually walk and talk on our lunch vacation as we catch some fresh air. We sometimes cook lunch together and save everything that occupies our brains. We often capture work work during the working day, facilitating further time spent together on evenings that would otherwise be conquered with everyone.
Thanks to work from home, she also renounces the time trip to both ends of her work day, giving us even more time together.
This precious time of quality is something that I am terrified that we will miss.
We had long -term goals that were related to our work work by home
Since my partner and I have worked from home, we were able to plan for our future out of work. Our main goal was to travel. I had hoped that our jobs would go to work in full -time, allowing us to travel whenever we wanted.
We planned to visit cities that interested us for short stays. I imagined to finish our working days on an airbnb and then go out in the evening to explore a new part of the world.
Traveling and keeping our full -time and distant work was our long -term dream.
I thought that the constant evidence we were fully committed to our roles and fulfilling our work tasks would lead us to this dream. But I was wrong. We have worked hard to be forced to return to the office.
I’m afraid of what comes next
My partner will start working four days a week in the office. She thinks it’s just a matter of time before she is there five days a week.
Gone will be those shared lunch breaks and the link they offered. Gone will be those extra hours of personal life that no trip or lunch at home allows. But that’s just the little things.
Great impact? We can no longer see the future for travel plans. I’m still learning to deal with the loss of our dream. When we met, our ambitions were lined up. It felt like we would be able to experience the world as a couple – without sacrificing money, career progress or love.
Suddenly, it feels like our hot air balloon has exploded. Thanks to the weight of the realities we thought of before were intact for our journey, we are going to Earth again.
While I’m sure we will survive this change in our dynamics, the world suddenly feels a little smaller. My hopes, our hopes, feel much more distant. It was a fist of sucker in a dream that would feel unrealistic to experience it.