New office vibes
I work for a medium-sized company that is in turn owned by a global mega-corp that you're unlikely to have ever heard of. I joined them almost a decade ago when said medium-sized company was still a start-up still in the process of establishing itself, and my original role was as a customer service representative and German translator in an small office near me. At some point they closed that office in favour of a London-based one, which introduced a lengthy commute to my day, which I absolutely loathed. In hindsight I'm not sure how I put up with it for as long as I did... though then the pandemic came and normalised working from home (luckily for me?!), meaning that I now only have to go to London twice a week at most. A couple of months ago we found out that our existing London office was once again closing down. With all the changes and acquisitions over the years, the business was now sitting on three different London offices, none of which were actually used to full capa