I can sympathize with all of the personal stories, but that is not going to move the needle. Also, reaching out to your manager or HR won't help. Please consider the following:
Use the Brave Browser or NORDVPN to hide your IP Address. This site is supposed to be anonymous, but I am protecting myself. HR trolls this site, so be careful.
Billy D's total compensation for 2025 was $21.4MM. He made that due to our loyalty and efforts. #BrilliantlyWhoring. He used us to line his pockets, and now he is throwing us away like trash. How can he declare Q3 2025 Net Income of $1.8 Billion (that is a single quarter), $4.35 Diluted EPS, record revenue, 8% noninterest income growth, strong credit quality, announce the acquisition of First Bank - AND THEN STATE REMOTE WORK IS HURTING THE BUSINESS?
We are not only employees but customers. If a customer is not happy with how they are treated, they have every right to take their business elsewhere - especially because banking is a commodity. Some posts here alone have generated 20K views; negative experience has a 15-fold impact. According to Con Affairs, the average person has 5.3 bank accounts. So, the potential negative impact is on 1.6MM accounts. And if industry stats say each account has $3K, that equates to $4.8 billion of impact if we and our family and close friends take our business elsewhere. Let's see how that gets explained to the Board of Directors.
I have been a loyal PNC Employee for decades and have worked 100-hour workweeks, months on end, without overtime pay because I enjoyed my job and was treated with respect. If you are now telling me I am HURTING the company because I am remote, are you also going to cancel all the overseas contracts, as they are ALL REALLY REMOTE?
If you want to make an argument for the benefits of remote work, please focus on the business value you bring to the table. For example, I support Online Banking, and if the application goes down, if you are not going to provide me flexibility, then I cannot return the favor - ask offshore to man all the critical incident calls and measure the increase in downtime for our customers and the level of account attrition. Or I work in Wealth Management and often need to call customers after hours; if you are not willing to provide me flexibility, I will have to wait until the next business day to return the phone call to that customer who has 5.3 million in their IRA Investment account. I work in Regulatory Affairs; if you are not willing to provide me flexibility, I will no longer jump on a call at 10 PM to finalize a response that needs to be sent to the regulators by midnight. I work on Technology Projects, and if you cannot provide me flexibility, I will no longer be working 60 hours a week to deliver the new Corporate Banking release. I am a disabled employee who has worked remotely for years, coordinating overnight software releases for production fixes. If you cannot provide me flexibility, I will not only lose my income, but your workforce will become less diverse and known for not being accommodating to those with disabilities.
Share your stories with the Board of Directors on how the mandate will financially harm the business. Based on public information, here are a few you can call anonymously (use *67 before you enter the number )
- Marjorie Chesire - Board Member HR/Corp Responsibility - 410.783.3214
- Doug Dachille - Board Member Risk/Technology - 650.391.9740
- Debra Carfaro - HR/Audit - 877.483.6827
- Also, loyalty works both ways. With or without this mandate, if you are aware of anything related to a hostile work environment, harassment, retaliation for speaking up or asking questions, forced overtime, inability to use FMLA, inability to use your Occasional Absence days, or any potential ethical violations, feel free to contact your State's Bank Regulator. I will no longer first contact HR or the Ethics office, as they have not stood up for us. If the email comes out in January, I will voice my concerns directly to the regulators. If it does not, I will go through the normal internal channels first.
- PA Bank Regulator: 717.214.8343
- OH Bank Regulator: 614.728.8400
- MI Bank Regulator: 877.999.6442
- Search for others as needed
Press Contact (Only if Needed): Tim Grant: 412.779.5834. Make it clear you are not speaking on behalf of the company. You can only speak on your own behalf as an anonymous source. Do NOT use any identifiable information such as your name, department, or the company name. You can relay that you work at a large regional bank and only speak in generalities. Let the reporter connect the dots.
Don't tell anyone that you post on this site, not even your closest friends at work.
I have never posted on this site before. However, after hearing everyone's stories and learning that our CEO is trying to gaslight the Board by stating that remote work and flexibility are HURTING the company, I was compelled to act.
If I get fired, I will immediately retain a labor attorney and file a whistleblower and retaliation claim. And if others are in the same boat, we can look to file a class action.
I absolutely hate that it has come to this. Bill, you can make this right - you know you are not doing this for financial reasons - but because your ego got hurt. If you can't get a hold of your directs on a Friday, fire them, don't take it out on the rest of us.