#office

My colleague was fired today, apparently she was coming into the office 4 days a week but only stayed for 5-10 minutes..

Not sure how they noticed but watch out.

Me and the boys completed our first week of the old badge switcheroo. It was a wild success!

We take turns holding everyone else's badges. Then, the one holding the badges goes into the office and scans everybody else in. It works like a charm!

Now, each of us only goes in once per week!

We are already talking about ways to make it better. We are open to your ideas!

Stalked teams and I counted roughly 12% of my ~400 headcount unit with an out of office today. Thoughts?

I used to love coming in on Friday because the office was empty, the manager never showed up, and it was a peaceful productive day. Too many of you are now thinking the same thing and coming in on Friday now and I need you to go away lol. That is all.

PNC implemented a five-day return-to-office mandate this week. This policy requires most employees to work onsite daily. Many employees expressed strong negative reactions on social media. Concerns include long commutes and childcare challenges. PNC states the policy supports collaboration and culture.

Pittsburgh, PA

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/labor/amid-five-day-return-to-office-mandate-pnc-employees-vent-on-social-media/

Did they say any guidance for the laid off associates, about the need to come to office till end of the month

This morning there was a corporate IT Zoom call where it was announced that a new IT center was being built in Springfield, MO. All USA based IT workers will be required to work from the new office starting August 2027. No jobs are being eliminated at this time, but all remote workers will need to move to Springfield, MO by August 2027 to work from the office or their jobs will be eliminated at that time.

Nooooo

Does the manager need to be in the off ice when they setup zoom calls with their team members to let them go? Was this covered in the training this AM?

Approved by CEO, announced very soon (week or two). Target date to transition is Aug 2026.

I heard so far that the head count its actually more than the amount of desk in the “New Miami Headquarter”, Could it be just a simple strategy to get rid of more people? At the end of the day we can agree that the acquisition of Frontier would be just another excuse to clean house.

Was your office busy?

Fidelity Investments will require many employees to return to the office five days a week. This new policy begins in September for staff at its Boston headquarters and other locations. Managers at the vice president level and above are also included across all company sites. Previously, most employees worked two weeks in the office out of every four. The company believes physical presence fosters connection, mentorship, and learning.

Boston, Massachusetts

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/30/newsletters/fidelity-return-to-office-five-days-boston/

came into the office today to find my microsoft account has been disabled… said it should be back in 30 minutes…. 4 hours ago

It's TACO Tuesday...
T - Take
A - Away
C - Careers...&
O - Outsource to India

Hooray!

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Considering applying for a WF role. Been monitoring this thread and there seems to be a lot of complaints around the in office policy, which I understand to be 3 days in office, and they are ensuring people stay for 8 hours on those days. My current role is 4/1, but no close monitoring of actual hours in office (yet).

Want to confirm it’s 8 hours in office they are requiring, and ask if you can come in earlier, for example 7am, and leave earlier if you need to - versus 9-5.

ol boy stank will be in San Ramon, probably scouting it out to see if it can be closed down.

Work for a satellite office, don’t see much of a difference. Are they just tracking badge swipes at worst? I highly doubt this is enforceable across a 50k employee base

Can we not do better here? If you want people in the office, maybe push a vacuum or dust once in a while? Office is so filthy we itch when we come in, cups and coffee are few and far between. No working water dispensers in any floor currently. Reserve space covered in grease from prior persons lunch…Thanks USBank for return to office bacterial frappe :(

Working from home gave us flexibility that so many of us repaid by being available at all times. That's about to be gone. No more working after hours, no more responding to late mails, no more giving extra. If we’re back in the office, we’re working office hours. That’s it.

Can’t believe it’s here. Is anyone planning to skip this id--tic “mandate”?
I have been remote 13 years in this company. Now I have to go sit in a random office by myself and do the exact same thing I would do at home. Thinking of skipping and letting the cards fall as they may.

Hi, I don’t work at the firm anymore. I heard that phone positions only need to come to the office one week a month. I am unfamiliar with what phone rep people deal with, but I know they deal with a LOT of crazy stuff. So, salute to you guys.

That being said, assuming what I heard is true, why do phone rep people only need to go one week? What is it about their work specifically that they can go in just one week? Why not all the other positions, like software engineers? Will phone reps continue to only need to go in one week after 2027?

Thanks

RTO - Return-to-Office.

It should be (Mandated) for Everyone (without a Viable Exception) now.

Back-in-the day, employees are (expected) to be at work; not doing other things at home (during work paid hours).

They took away our precovid lives where we had fun going into the office we had colleagues to associate with and life was normal.
They forced us home locked us in and then wonder why we’re adverse to going in after we have proven we are extremely productive wfh. So they created this mammoth paradigm shift and get huffy when we push going back. Going into an office every week every day is so 1980’s the big corps started planning for pandemic scenarios they got what they wanted and forgot they had massive real estate holdings and empty offices.
No you don’t get to keep changing the rules. We’ve adapted and we like autonomy not slogging in with ridiculous traffic and gasoline at $5
This is the modern office HYBRID!

They’ve gone and shut the whole Wex and Cork offices, only to turn around and start hiring again with double referral bonuses. Like, what in the name of God are they at? Did they really ask the lads from those offices to move up to Dub or what?

I have been advised to no longer sign on in the evening to finish tasks as it will log the the time from when I leave the office to when I log in at home as "locked time". Absurd!

I can’t speak for everyone, but this is my take:

I don’t need to be in an office to do my job, but I don’t mind BEING in the office. However, I do mind GOING to the office. There is a distinction. At my location, I have to drive to get to the office. If I take public transit, it adds over an hour to the commute and there are too many nutcases around. But gas is expensive, and I don’t live where the bank has a nice, big free parking lot to park my car. For those of us in downtown metro areas, it’s costs hundreds a month just to park to sit in an office we don’t need to be at in the first place. When RTO happened, it essentially took thousands in take home pay out of my pocket.

Again, once I get to the office, it’s fine. I don’t mind seeing people and all that. (I will not do volunteer activities, however. I’m not cleansing any bank’s reputation with the public when I know they come up with bs excuses for why they can’t even pay their own employees full cost of living adjustments). I don’t know what management doesn’t understand about this. Gas prices are too expensive, parking is too expensive, the mediocre turkey sandwich at the lunch place down the street, that somehow costs $15 now, is too expensive, and if I bring my lunch from home I’m buying groceries that are also too expensive. Now, deep down in my heart, I know that management doesn’t care. But they will someday.

Any news yet on where?

So many of my colleagues coffee-badge or come in less than four days per week RTO. Is this a psychological experiment to see what happens when one groups does not hat they’re told is expected of them and the other does the bare minimum?

Come on splunk, get on Webex already…

Is India affected by any of the RTO mandates? How are they handling for Boston or NH staff the situation in the office? Will these folks not have assigned seats or are they at least dropping that id--tic practice.

;)

Buckle up!

Over hiring in past 5 years
AI is coming
Space is limited
100% in office is coming
RIF coming to go back to headcount 65~70K

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/04/29/fidelity-to-bring-employees-back-to-the-office-5-days-a-week/

Ok folks who complain about THREE day requirement- TIAA continues to be the outlier here. For those who threaten to leave over this requirement - not only is the job market difficult, your options to work from home also seem to be dwindling. So maybe switch career paths as the industry is almost exclusively in office or appreciate what TIAA offers its employees?

thats the post

Not a whine post, just keeping it informational. I just had an org activation touch base where it was communicated that everyone in GT will be expected to work in either PHK or ITC at the current Nike guidance of 4 days per week.

Back in 2023 at an FI all hands in SMT, one of the heads of the BU said “Vanguard makes you come in 3 times a day, we’re MUCH better than them”. Roger Stiles also said in the end of 2022 that the approach for one week in office was fair.

I wonder if those gents remember when they said that lol.

I think it’s time we revisit who owns reserved parking spaces - too many open and not enough general spots