Written by by Jennifer Liu at cnbc.com
Last year, Alexis Byrd started a new job she was really excited for.
Byrd, who lives in Detroit, landed an HR job in the logistics space. Though the job was remote, she was asked to commute an hour into the office for her first week of onboarding.
No big deal, Byrd thought — she was greeted at the office with flowers and welcoming colleagues.
By her third day, however, her manager told her she would actually be expected to commute into the office three times a week. Not only that, Byrd was to drive to the company’s two other worksites twice a week, which would add about two hours of driving to her daily commute.
“It was kind of crazy,” Byrd, 29, tells CNBC Make It. “I was overwhelmed.”
Byrd tried to bring up her remote-work agreement with her manager to get clarity. “She had said, ‘Sometimes things change, and you need to be flexible’,” Byrd recalls. “It was kind of a brush-off.”