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Dell's sudden 5-day RTO order leaves parents scrambling to find childcare

Dell told sales staff to be in the office every day with two working days' notice and to use PTO if they weren't available during work hours.

Dell Under the hybrid model, one worker was able to leave the office at lunchtime to manage pickup times and shared childcare duties with their partner, who worked from home. "It's very disappointing that a company such as Dell, which supposedly prides itself on pushing a good work-life balance, has instead cultivated a culture of fear of losing one's job if we don't have 'butts in the seat,'" she said. Johnny C. Taylor Jr., the president of the Society for Human Resource Management, told BI that as more organizations have called workers back to the office, it's become clear that many employees didn't heed warnings that remote work was not here to stay.

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