Got the final word yesterday...
I am NOT moving to our new office (I'll call it office B). Everyone else on my team is, but I am not, I'm staying in Office O.
Office B is about a quarter mile from Office A, which was opened last year to replace an office that was even farther away. They had to open office B because the team grew WAY faster than they thought it would, I guess, so it's no hassle for the rest of my team.
But when they started talking about dragging me out of Office O to go to Office B I was very clear with my boss -- you make me move to the new office and increase my daily commute from 4 miles to upwards 30 and I will quit.
They were sort of hemming and hawing about that, and it just got a lot worse when I asked them what the business case was for wanting to make me move. There isn't one. The PM apparently just wants to have all his people near him so he doesn't feel lonely.
What the literal *expletive deleted*ck?
That's when I really dug my heels in, and I guess the work I've done on the program over the past two years speaks for itself because I'm not on any of the move charts.
My one teammate, with whom I share an office, is moving to Office B two days a week and he's not at all happy. He commutes a LOT farther (over an hour most days) and this will add another 30 minutes to an hour onto that. But, they're not as happy with he job he's done and want to bring him under a bit more supervision.