#office

No More WFH Monday. Everyone back to the office. Heard it here first

We all understand that the real goal for the Plano HQ is for it to become a part of the Legacy West. Makes perfect sense. People can't complain about going to work when the office is literally across the street.

But, I heard a rumor that Stank wants to get an AT&T themed Scheel's on the property. Emmitt Smith will be swapped out for an animatronic version of Stinkey and his new office will be assembled entirely from Legos and will accessible by Ferris wheel.

Pickleball courts will be on the first floor between lifesize giraffe and elephant sculptures. Johnny-boy will finally have a circus to go with all of his clowns.

Is it working for anyone?
I tried checking and it only shows my info

In the HTC at palm bay. You would think that bats invading the office space is enough to at least work from home for the week while they sort that out but nope, "just don't touch them".

There were 5

Anyone know how long I can stay home and still fly under the radar? I’m looking to go into the office just enough to not get in trouble.

Ok. I know this has nothing to do with layoffs. I just need to vent.

My 5 year old work PC su-ks. Takes 15 mins to boot and startup my apps. Then slow slow the rest of the day. Need to reboot once in a while. I just want to get my work done.

Going to IT somehow made it worse.

I miss PC refresh.
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6-8 hours is a guess that is likely. Retroactive possible. Question is when does the hammer come crashing.

Rumor mill is churning today. We know they’re already tracking how long you sit on an IP in office. I’m hearing murmurs that requirements are coming soon. I just can’t decide if it’ll be at the start of the year or if it’ll be the next few months so they can use it to sh-t us out of bonuses/raises.

80% of it I've worked remotely and received promotion.

The other 20%, I still work remotely, I just do it from their designated cubical in downtown trafficville.

Any changes ?

I literally can’t find a seat in the office. The Workplace app is useless. It shows the next three weeks as fully booked.
At this point, I just walk around the office, can’t find a space, and leave. If they’re actually tracking hours based on badge-out time, I’m sc--wed.
It’s pretty ridiculous that the RTO policy is pushing people to come into the office when there literally isn’t a seat for them to work at.

Amazing how BNY recently shut down the Cork office, but now they buy the Shipping Office for €165m

Recruitment is failing abysmally, the new recruits seem like DEI hires on juiced up resumes.

However, it's not really DEI, it's desperation!

I have a few observations and feelings on this and in no particular order…

1. Compliance actually feels higher than I thought it would be. I am in MMK so I can only speak to that location, but many people are clearly showing up & ki-ling time by going on walks around the buildings, spending long durations in the cafe, playing games, talking to co-workers, then leaving after putting in however many hours of “in-person”. The productivity despite being in-office can’t possibly be any higher than remote. Fidelity’s gonna stick with it regardless though and pretend like collaboration is up. It’s purely pretend and very obvious at ground floor if they act like this had any positive benefit in the slightest.

2. Piggy backing off the first point, most people seem to do their badge-ins, and the office is full. Nobody is happy about it obviously, and it causes the energy to be miserable. RTO has been the only topic of conversation since the start and it’s clear that people are burnt out. Even if you try to enter the office in a good mood, it quickly gets suffocated away. There’s no choice but to interact with other people who also don’t want to be there, and the feeling multiplies.

3. The FLIK workers are slammed every day. They were already full-time before everyone else came back and so it’s clear they have their own set of frustrations over needing to double their output every day. Some are handling it well and others are not. The ones who aren’t, while I definitely don’t blame them and even feel kinda bad from the collateral damage, it adds another layer to the frustration and discontent with being overcrowded and surrounded by unhappy people in the office.

4. Depending on the time you arrive in the morning, the LAZ parking attendants tend to point to obvious places and don’t add any benefit whatsoever, mostly just funny/useless observation.

5. Like I said earlier, I am in MMK. I’ve heard so much about how nice the new seaport office is and how much money Fidelity invested into it. I’ve only been at the company for less than a decade, but those who have been here since the 90s and early 2000s attest that there have been next to no improvements or changes to MMK. It’s absurd how dated the office is, and I for one am quite jealous over the blatant neglect of locations outside of headquarters.

I (naively or not) hold out hope that eventually we move to something like 3 or 4 days a week expectation instead of 5, but I can’t see that happening with the current people making the decisions. Also, the rumor of someone stealing FLIK food doesn’t shock me given the state of affairs & economy.

This deserved a thread of its own, the OP is @a6+1m3dc6nye.

Since we did a full RTO the energy amongst team members had become truly incredible

I've never seen such eagerness to get to work as there is at the moment, people just dripping cars outside the door and leaving them running so they can get to their desks to start working

Meeting rooms are booked out for the next 2 years

The markets love us and our stock is strong

why I see workers in their offices staring at work computers, lights off from 8-5 (long hours) What are they working on? Anyone know?

How is it fair that everyone is required to return to office 3 days when some are still eligible to work remotely. It should be the same across the board. There is a manager in TA who is remote and her employees are in office. Lots of favoritism. There is no way someone in a manager role should be remote.

Looks like there are talks about being required to be in the office of YOUR assigned BOA location as it shows in Corporate Directory. If you must go to another building that you are NOT assigned to you may have to start signing up as a "Visitor" and no longer may have permanent access to multiple locations for which your LOB is paying for assigned building for each employee. Thanks to those who have been abusing and finding away around the misuse of drop in spaces at Ballantyne. I hope this doesn't occur because I don't want to have to pay $150-$200 a month for parking uptown Charlotte. Anyone heard anything about this possibly rolling out across the bank?

Grab a spot at JBS to witness the first ever lap around the lake in the buff. I am all set ....

These people are losing out on the incredible energy in the office, positive atmosphere, everyone working together doing high 5s, meetings rooms and car parks heaving with new hires

It's unbelievable

Just curious - How long are y’all staying in the office each day?

I could deal with the RTO, but having to fight for a place to sit every single time? Is it the same everywhere?

When there is no space to assign, why these leads asking to come to office. App shows all space is booked.

Just a random thought since Burlington is now back at the office after the infestation... Did anyone notice the flag at the entrance is at half mast? Just curious as to why...?

Are agency workers needed to be in office? Not sure why managers keep mentioning about coming to office whereas contract mentions remote

:(

Are all groups now on Teams? Is Zoom
Now becoming disabled ? When will it be required to use Teams? I heard in a meeting that they are starting Teams up mandatory for SLOD first on 10/1 is this true?

Yael is coming to the Charlotte office this week. Office tours have actively happened… Office closure?

collaboration.
we work better together
it’s important for the company

all bs because the company is in dire trouble and it’s clearly made zero difference

it’s all just smoke and mirrors so they can use badge swipes to fire the best round of people

I’m not aware of any other companies that do this, low to employees about why and have been so ineffective regardless

moral is in the toilet and the company is in deep trouble

would 1 day a week remote hurt them or help them.

I think we all know the answer.

there’s no better together

Genuinely disgusted and disappointed with Goran’s leadership. He’s one of the few old C-suite/board people Sanoke kept around, and it increasingly feels like he’s sold himself to protect his own position while everyone below him deals with the consequences.

There’s absolutely no transparency. People are worried about layoffs, pay, promotions and rumours of 4/5 days back in the office, and his attitude seems to be “who cares?”. Snarky comments by him in the London office about things that directly affect people’s jobs and lives are not leadership. It’s blatantly detached from reality.

Nobody expects him to have every answer, but people should at least expect some honesty, empathy and respect. Instead, he comes across as completely detached from the people he’s supposed to lead. Really poor.

Do better Goran. You’ve sold everybody out to keep daddy Sanoke impressed.

Hello, fellow job haters. Some of us have survived almost one full month this 100% RTO. Now now obviously many of us are mad about it, and things are playing out as predicted. But what have been some issues or other surprises that NO ONE predicted would happen when having to go into office every day? (Example: the rumor of someone stealing food from FLIK).

P.S: RTO also means really terrible operation.

Got the email end of day. Nashville office remotes meet on the 6th and Round Rock on the 8th. Any guesses?

Anyone knows anything about how the actual move to Edmonton will look like? I mean..will there be any force date when everyone is expected to show up there..or any staggered plan based on departments? Giving it was announced as of 2H 2028 but nothing has been cleared since then

Shell discussion in Bangalore. Shell started their office years before ExxonMobil

https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@OP+1m27yw8gc

Ever since they rolled out this pos seat booking workplace app, I often wonder the brains behind this. The problem was bad earlier with people just booking (and blocking) even if they are not coming. But with RTO, there is no space left to book. What to do? Anybody encounters this? This is in Canada btw

I've seen the police car each time I'm at the office in Cary. I've heard that it's there when there are layoffs. Is this true? How come it's always parked there?