#office

As we transition to ODW, site visit reporting will be retired. However, the expectation remains the same: Onsite team members are expected to work a regular day from a Dell office five days a week. While attendance will not be shared, this expectation is non-negotiable

Have we won the battle?

This only applies to the Maryland offices because I have no clue what’s happening at other locations. I’ve been informed that they are tracking badging in Owings Mills and “collecting the data for who comes in their 2 days a week and who doesn’t”, at least for tech. I know most associates are in 4 days a week, especially at HP, but does anyone think they’ll mandate tech come in 4 days a week this year?

Does anyone have any idea of the direction of this new merged consumer office? It looks like a lot of role overlap. Will there be rifs on 3/19 for this area? Seems like the uhc consumer office folks are in a stronger position than the optum.

There is no way RTO is being enforced equally. The only people who are being forced to come in are the people on the phones. I walk the floors

I heard from my manager they are in the process of setting up IP tracking to determine how many hours a week you are in the office - presumably with end goal to have dashboard like 11 RTO days but now including how many hours your IP showed you in office.

Anyone have further details on IP or any other in office tracking being implemented?

I'm hoping this goes the same way as their development of badge in/badge out tracking which they were too incompetent to implement successfully, which is why we only have the badge in system now.

Current Understanding on Tracking
FTE - Badge swipe ins per month / 11
Contractors - Sapience Micromanagement Software

Personally I would have expanded the comments about the mouse but it was on point!

Anyone else hear that once we get that anticipated email from HR that band 3 and above need to be in office everyday as BAU. For now us band 4-6 or higher will need to be in office with flexibility and limits on that flexibility. I see the future where we are all back to 5 days and have some flexibility as long as it’s not a consistent thing

BoA just signed up to take over all of OBP, making current tenants of 600,000 SF subtenants of BoA i.e. no immediate big expansion but we went from 1.8m SF leased to 2.4m SF total so flex option for the future...perhaps this is to enable the full RTO ?

1. Folks will spend more time finding available seats
2. Will spend more time commuting during peak hours
3. Will log in less at home if 8 hours requirement is met for day.
4. People may work on different shifts like 6am-2pm vs 9-5 vs 10-6. It’s hard to schedule meeting across different time zones.
   What else?

On Employees that are fully remote in claims with no offices? Are they moving the jobs to the hubs or no, and staying fully remote?

I overhead that all senior level grade 9 and above will be required to be in the office a minimum of 5 (count them) five days. This is to role model full RTO before making this mandatory for the rest of the employees.

Is this being reported on? Four days in the office is too much, the low morale in the office is ki-ling me.

We make air, openclaw to be new CEO at next coffe talk. Line of doom still dooming. Coffee badge cleared , just get your a-hole to the office.

Hock has spoken, I obey and thank your sir, may I have another?

It's so incredibly wonderful to have finally exited this dumpster fire of a once great company. The air is fresher, the birds are singing, the flowers smell sweeter. The level of TIAA senior management incompetence, hypocrisy and corruptibility is matched only by that of our nation's current White House administration. No more ridiculous 3 day in office pseudo collaboration. No more glowing annual reviews and high praise that at bonus time still never translate to anything higher than a middle of the pack rating. No more televised circus side shows featuring the queen bee and her inner circle of high paid enablers (Are You Ready to Rock Charlotte!?). Let's see now how everything plays out as I try to get my retirement funds out of the company. There's a lot of great people that I'll truly miss. And no small amount of individuals that I most definitely will not.

I’m hearing mixed messages. Does y’all have the facts?

Has anyone heard anything lately on if/when they are going to push for us to return to office again

Anyone else concerned about reporting to office with Iran threatening to attack US Banks?

Has anyone heard anything about potential layoffs at the home office? Specifically on the merchandising organizations as supporting teams?

I smell a blood in our office but nothing here...

Anything spicy to share? Aggregator model is an epic failure...a bo-b must be dropped... The only questions that I have... when and how big is the bo-b this time?

1. Never explain yourself under pressure

   • Being forced to explain yourself often places you in a submissive position.
   • If a question is framed this way, point it out directly.
   • Example: "I don't think you meant to, but that question puts me in a position where I have to justify myself, and that is not a role I am going to take right now."

2. Never argue about your motives

   • Do not engage in debates about what your intentions supposedly were.
   • Call out the framing instead.
   • Example: "The way that was said puts me in a position where I have to defend my character."

3. Never take the bait on character attacks

   • Avoid engaging with accusations about who you are as a person.
   • Do not argue over identity or character.

4. Never apologize simply to de escalate

   • With a manipulator, the apology they push for is often meant as an admission of guilt.
   • It usually does not resolve the underlying issue.

5. Never match emotional intensity to prove your point

   • Do not mirror someone else's anger or intensity.
   • Escalating emotion rarely strengthens an argument.

6. Never accept someone else's language without precision

   • Words like disrespect, abuse, or betrayal can shape the narrative.
   • Accepting those labels without clarification lets someone else define the situation.
   • Clarify what they specifically mean before engaging with the claim.

7. Never accept binary traps

   • Avoid being forced into yes or no or either or answers when the situation is more complex.
   • Seek specificity.
   • Ask clarifying questions such as:
     • "When you said that, what specifically are you referring to?"
     • "What outcome are you hoping for here?"

8. Never try to win through logic alone

   • Arguments are not always resolved through logic by itself.
   • Emotional dynamics, framing, and intentions often influence the outcome.

#gold rules

I’ve been noticing a lot of new jobs it’s requiring in office work. They just opened up jobs for MDU and SMB. These jobs have a state requirement. So, it seems they might be pushing towards in office work and not remote. I’m just curious what will happen if you’re not in a business office area and they require you to “return to office” when you’ve never worked in an office and do not live near one.

I'd hate to be paired into a desk where there's no divider. Why not make them all consistent and the same

If leadership insists that work is most productive within office walls, I’m happy to lean into that philosophy. Moving forward, my office hours are my only hours. The 'after-hours' emails and evening catch-up sessions from the couch are over. If the goal is a strict office environment, then the work stays at the desk. Naturally, my output will reflect the loss of those extra 'home hours'—my metrics are already showing the dip compared to last year—but I’m simply following the new standard set for us.

With the average cost of gas is $3.32/gal , and no end in sight with the war with Iran, will the RTO be loosen especially when gas prices continue to skyrocket the longer we stay in the war? We’ll soon be losing money just to go into the office to sit in our cubes on teams calls.

My boss said there is chatter that Microsoft Excel/Word/PowerPoint will be removed from everyone's computer. Google will be the new default.

https://youtube.com/shorts/zidJDw00ZYo

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Rumors in the leadership chat are that large layoffs are to begin tomorrow and go through Wednesday. Most groups won't be affected but from what I have heard it's primarily ISG, CSG, IT, and then small percentages throughout other groups. Those who have been consistently lacking in office visits are also being HEAVILY targeted, as well.

What happened to ‘we’re better together’? Where are all the working from home crowd? Why are they still at home? There is plenty of space (especially in my building) to bring folks in. Seems like this was just a bunch of lies. For those of us that started going in two days, then three days, and when that wasn’t enough to shut them up, it went to four. Now WE are in there five days a week, but where is everyone else?

Return to office policies feel disconnected from how many teams actually work now. A lot of teams are spread across different cities and countries. Even when people sit in the same building, most of their meetings are still on video calls. The day ends up looking exactly like a remote workday, except people had to commute to do it.

It creates a strange situation... Now, peeps spend time and money getting to the office just to log into virtual meetings anyway. The actual work process does not change much. Communication tools, documents, and collaboration ALL still happn online. At that point the office becomes more symbolic than practical, and people start questioning what the real purpose of the policy is.

Looks like all hybrid workers are going back into the office quarter by quarter. Next will be telecommuters.

Ceiling tile looks like it’s about to burst open, drip has the sound of a faucet left on. Return to the office and expose yourself to mold and wastewater.

I took all my personal belongings home, because tomorrow is Thursday and the only question is which Thursday (or Friday) is it going to be in the next couple weeks to get laid off in?

For those of you who go to the downtown office all the way from up north near McKinney has anyone tried commuting through Harry Hines Blvd? Is it faster than taking the normal highways? Do they have an express lane? I am going to try it one of these days.

So I was previously located in another area of campus in a flexible seating space. Over a short period of time all of the flexible seating became assigned seating and neighborhood pods. Of course those neighborhood pods and assigned seats were the preferred seat seating near windows, quiet spaces, etc. and the only options left were in the noisy busy parts of the floor..

Our group just moved to building 600 pod C and it’s happening again.. seriously don’t understand the purpose of flexible seating if teams are going to start going through the process of making assigned seats. It’s so obnoxious to get stuck with the creepiest seating options just because I’m an individual contributor and not in the position to throw a trantrum to secure the preferred seats. So here I am once again being faced with having to sit next to the door where everyone enters and exits all day long. This whole thing is so obnoxious and ridiculous… even comical to some degree.

I’m sure most of you noticed there is now tracking of your badge swiped available in Workday.

When you open the report, there is a column labeled “Office Designation”

What does everyone’s say for that? I was told I have to come to the office but my designation says “Out of office”

The President can start a war from his resort club and talk to his year in his home.

There is no reason why we need to go the office

I am following the president lead by working from home

Get back in the office for collaboration better results. Head of US business segment, ELT member that doesn’t apply to you. You can live in a different country.

i am from out of state ad i wil be in mi next week. i have to turn in my computer and get a new one. in the new building where is IT located I have a disability and ca't walf far so i am trying to plan.

Retired for awhile just wondering if that addrtrss is still an AT&T facility? It was pretty lousy but convenient to train station.