Each week Dr Kirstin Ferguson tackles questions on workplace, career and leadership in her advice column Got a Minute? This week: questioning the need to return to the office, showing support for the boss, and when colleagues treat you differently because of your job title.

Our company mandates three days in the office for “collaboration”, yet most of those days I sit on Teams calls with colleagues in other states, wearing noise-cancelling headphones. It’s costing me time and money to commute, and everyone in my team is quietly fuming. How do I raise that coming into the office seems to be just about box-ticking, not culture? I seriously don’t know why they want us back in the office at all.

It sounds like your organisation hasn’t thought through a strategy on how to make coming into t

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