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Condé Nast management will start requiring employees to be in the office 4 days a week on 3/3, allegedly to make us more productive. Yet for months, many of us have gone without desks, often being forced to work from the cafeteria, HR floor or hallways.

i’ve been WFH since 2017–long before it was the norm. i’m more productive, i’m happier, i’m more ambitious as a WFH employee. offices can be nice for camaraderie. but they’re full of distractions (talking coworkers, clicking pens) that burn a hole in my ADHD brain. in-office is more expensive too!

Wired and other Conde outlets are valuable resources. Sad to hear that Conde doesn’t seem to feel the same about their employees.

for the last year, management at CN have refused to provide us enough desks for everyone to work in office. now, despite the space concerns, they are targeting people randomly for flex-work agreements, including a few that predate the pandemic!! we're organizing to push back

Journalism gets worse when reporters are chained to their desks for no good reason and not allowed the flexibility to do their jobs. That's just science.

I literally cannot emphasize this enough

Condé staff work overtime to break news about Elon Musk’s government takeover at WIRED, develop new recipes at @bonappetit.bsky.social + cover the Grammys for Vanity Fair. We go beyond for our jobs, but Condé Nast is making us commute 4x/week just to check a box—& can’t even provide enough workspace

WHAT IS THE PLAN, Condé Nast? On 12/2/24, Condé CEO Roger Lynch announced we'd be returning to the office 4 x/week starting 3/3/25. He said the company would soon share "more information on space," because so few of us have desks or designated places to work. It's 2/14 and we haven't heard a word.

As of 3/3, @CondeNast is enforcing a 4-day Return To Office policy to enhance “productivity." This plan will have the opposite effect. We have detail-oriented jobs that operate on tight deadlines. Condé sold office space during the pandemic, so most of us don’t have our own desks.

Hi! We're the Condé union—400+ editorial workers across Allure, Architectural Digest, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Entertainment, Condé Nast Traveler, Epicurious, Glamour, GQ, Pitchfork, SELF, Teen Vogue, Them, Vogue + Wired. We're organizing w/@nyguild.bsky.social to build a better Condé.