Woman who earns P5.4 million yearly quits hybrid job after being asked to work on-site full-time
An Arizona woman who's earning $100,000 (P5.4 million) a year in a hybrid setup just resigned after her employer asked her to return to office full-time.
Financial news website Business Insider reported that "Felicia," a 53-year-old administrator, said that for over a year and a half, her office required them to report on-site for two days and work from home for three days, describing it as "the perfect work-life balance."
But her employer recently asked them to go to the office five times a week. She accepted it at first but after a month or so, Felicia decided that it's "Bye, Felicia" already.
"I know how to do my job. I don't need to be in an office to do my work," she told Insider. "I just knew I didn't want to go back to what it felt like before."
She said she gets "a lot more work done" in the hybrid setup, and that going to the office meant "distractions and interruptions."
"I was going home and working four hours because I couldn't get the work done," she noted, adding she liked to "quietly focus" while working virtually and seeing coworkers in person on-site.
The realization to turn in her resignation letter, Felicia said, happened while sitting in traffic.
"Oh my goodness, that feeling of I have a meeting coming up yet I'm stuck in this," she told Insider. "And it's like, why am I doing this to myself when it's not even necessary?"
She also lamented how their managers think that hybrid employees like her weren't working, which she said isn't true at all as they, in fact, accomplish tasks at home—and better at that.
Felicia said she's now looking for a new job that offers the same hybrid setup even though it pays less.
"I just got to the point where it just wasn't working for me," she said of the full-time office setup. "I walked away from over a $100,000-per-year salary to seek positions that have hybrid options so that I can have that work-life balance."