The recent aggressive moves to increase in-office time regardless of whether the work necessitates in-person collaboration has been frustrating. Many times I've commuted to the office only to spend the day on Teams/Zoom meetings and not interact with any other staff. The SLT gave us Juneteenth as a holiday for 1 year, then took it back and also tried to take away Labor day (but Massachusetts law prevented that bone-headed policy). In my time there, they've taken away nearly a week of vacation (a couple days in 2011 and a couple more days last year). The most recent reduction in benefits was taken away from those who had been at MITRE for 9 or more years and reallocated to make vacation "equitable" with an increase in time for those with no time in service. If felt like they were punishing the senior staff in hopes folks would leave, so they could replace them with less expensive junior staff. Many senior folks have left over the past 18 months and I feel this has led to lower quality products.