#remotework

Virtual here asked to relocate, But what’s with the layoff talk in June and July, when asked to relocate by October? Why will they layoff when they want you to relocate?

Is it on Michigan's unemployment website?

Dan and other leaders have mentioned closing locations and that locations shouldn't matter for hires but when will we see that in job postings?

If Abby is making us go into the office every day, then, maybe that’ll let people not have to go into the office sometimes? Like if someone has to see a doctor, they can be allowed to work from home that day? Eventually, maybe they’ll realize they NEED to give remote work exceptions, like to people who are primary caretakers or have illnesses?

Just a wishful thought. Probably not gonna happen. I don’t know, man.

Where is everyone? I thought we were all 5x8 RTO. Maybe all took vacation.

People are posting the same question all over the public channels: How is having Teams in addition to these other products saving us any money?

The answer is that it's not. First of all, Teams will replace pretty much everything eventually, but the reason Dan wants it in right this second is so they can effectively install spyware on every employee's computer.

Teams has insanely detailed tracking on keyboard/mouse usage, activity, time spent on computer, etc., and more importantly it rolls all that information up to people managers in nice, easy to consume dashboards.

Yes all of these things already exist in some form or fashion. But the information is fragmented, and managers don't currently have access to all of it. With Teams you get one centralized spyware platform that managers can easily access and consume.

I believe that the ultimate plan is to start culling remote employees by terminating for cause based on activity metrics to reduce headcount. Many other companies in the industry use teams to micro-manage and track remote employees, and many people are posting on forums like reddit about being terminated or written up for "7% decrease in activity levels".

USAA is trying to align itself with how the industry is controlling and targeting remote employees, and if I were one of them I would make sure I had a backup plan.

In the office alone again — just me, my badge, and the hum of lights that definitely don’t need to be on.
If I miss a day, I get put on “a list,” so I’m hanging on like a badge clip that’s one tug from snapping.

Meanwhile, the remote “leader” who is well within the RTO distance — but somehow got reclassified as remote — will probably need to set up a Teams meeting to talk to me about the importance of in‑office collaboration.
Peak corporate irony.

And the highlight of the month: after six months of coming in four days a week, I finally had my first in‑person meeting.
Pretty sure someone got forced to schedule it.

At this point, I’m basically the last survivor wandering an empty office park, trying not to end up on a list. But don’t worry leadership is listening, if we are lucky maybe some are thinking as well. 🙏

Have a great weekend and remember the holiday doesn’t count as a swipe next week.

I need to get back to work since I was asked to hire more remote workers for my team, who will never come in this office.

I work in the credit fraud department, where overtime is often offered. However, today, they announced that overtime is no longer available for stateside employees, but the contractors in India will now be able to work overtime. We inquired about the reason behind this decision, and they simply stated that overtime is not a guaranteed benefit. Furthermore, on March 20, they laid off a few remote workers from my department. All of these events make me feel uneasy. Anything like this going on in your department?

I am in a location that is not one of the "big 3" and have been turned down for job after job after job after job bc I cannot relocate and "must be in one of the listed locations"...

THE SUPPLY CHAIN SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT IS LOCATED IN LONDON, ENGLAND BUT I CANNOT BE IN A DIFFERENT US BASED LOCATION.

WHAT THE F*%K IS GOING ON WITH THIS COMPANY.

Specifically in tech? Cyber? Systems analyst? I've heard of a few but not sure if any specific team

After more strict changes for RTO (Thrive Together initiative) It seems remote people are being targeted more than office people in RTP and NANE locales, anyone else seeing that?

Does anyone know if it's possible to be approved to work remotely to care for senior/disabled family?

Is anyone being granted an accommodation to work remotely 100%?

These id--ts remove remote work and expect software developers to work a lot for 75% of the average pay. They also expect you to do POCs and come up with all the solutions and lead new efforts like a software architect at a director level pay lol.
The expectations are delusional and ridiculous.

1. They hate their wives
2. Work is their identity
3. They hate their families
4. They love to gossip
5. Control

Found this on Twitter, and it looks really appropriate. Those are truly the only reasons I can think of why somebody would be so staunchly against WFH, and it's incredibly sad.

It's been interesting seeing where these newly hired people are located.

Multiple positions currently open at Paramount are listed as fully remote. What's the deal? Are these teams that have always been remote/have been grand-fathered in to stay this way?

New comprehensive data shows -

Millennials: who currently power our business and economy - prefer fully remote roles.

With AI, etc. there is zero reason to sit in a loud environment on teams calls - this pertains to majority of roles.

Wake up. This preference and need isn’t going away.

Lack of talent will prove this. Watch.

A monthly aggregate means that we don't know about any data problems until after the fact. And since this data is tied to performance and possibly bonuses, we should on a weekly basis if any of our in office days didn't track accurately. Fix this please MC!

Comment your hot takes here.

Ideal US Talent Worker OpCo LLC will lay off 9,891 remote gig workers. These layoffs are scheduled to begin on July 1. The company cited business restructuring as a primary reason. Its contracts are being transferred to a third-party partner. Affected workers are encouraged to apply for open positions with this partner.

Minneapolis, MN

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/nearly-9900-remote-gig-workers-to-be-laid-off-by-minneapolis-company/ar-AA22mF5u

Bill’s talking about how RTO will help teammates further their careers, etc, but that’s 100% NOT TRUE if there are no advancement opportunities in your line of work in your geographic location. I was hired to work remotely and at that time my advancement opportunities were open (or at least more open than they are now) because Truist was OK with remote work. Now I have to go into an office that has nowhere for me to grow, OR I have to move to a more expensive city that will eat up any difference in salary I might get with a promotion. The lack of leadership’s acknowledgment of this impact is so disappointing.

I wish I knew who I could rant to but I'm way too careful about sharing my work-place political views. RTO has totally uprooted my life from cost of childcare, time wasted on commute, routine, and even my work itself. Talk about being more efficient, eh? Literally cannot get the same amount of work done if im being pulled in 12 different directions each day just to make sure im doing my work from one spot and not another i.e my home. What a super cool and awesome thing this all is. The only thing that motivates me more than getting yelled at for "non-compliance" is SPITE. You want me to quit? No thanks. However, with my flexibility now gone, there goes yours as well. Taking calls after hours? No. 110% effort? Try 50. It's been said before but dear lord what are they thinking? THOUSANDS of employees with FOUR MONTHS time to get read for the dreaded RTO yet ZERO MF GUIDELINES?

The guidelines are vague by design, because they want us to assume what the rules are. I dont want to tell others what to do but please dont make this easy on them. Most of our positions were originally based around a hybrid schedule from the get-go.

Abby will be begging people to work from home. If you think this isn’t a possibility for another pandemic get yourself educated

Was anyone given this offer as an alternative to the layoff? If not, why? It seems like that would indicate a performance or other reason than just someone being remote.

Besides medical accommodations, does WF give case by case exceptions for other reasons to be able to WFH? For example, person no longer in strategic location but their experience is needed to close out a time sensitive project. I know some who work remote but I am afraid to ask them their reason , though the two who volunteered their reason it was medical related each time

Anybody noticed something suspicious interviewing people remotely during Workday?

On TikTok, they show videos of someone under the table of the person being interviewed with a second monitor and actual keyboard typing the answers using AI while the guy being interviewed pretends to be typing in front of the camera.

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.

My team is in a different office, and I’m the only one at another site. With full-time RTO, how are people approaching this when it doesn’t impact team collaboration?

To Fidelity only, but are you all aware all the professionals in many huge multibillion dollar companies their employees are as pi---d off as we are for FT RTO?!. They have all stirred the hornets nest! No one is happy, if they successfully did their wfh massively productive employees have proven they can be trusted to wfh and be flexible with coming into an office. It just shows we are completely off their radar for loyalty or respect or for their MASSIVE PROFITS they’ve enjoyed. Maybe just maybe there’ll be infinitesimally small reductions in productivity by naturally being back in a distracting office and I hope they see an overall decline because of RTO. Nothing evil or malicious just a natural decline because being in a busy noisy office lends itself to more distractions. Be careful the powers that be you may be cutting off your nose to spite your face. WFH was a long planned situation and it worked fabulously well and they’re still unhappy with the workforce . Give the professional adults in your office the due respect they deserve. Allow flexibility.

WFH already proved it works. We did it for years. Output didn’t drop, and in most cases it actually improved. Turns out it’s the person doing the work that matters, not the chair they’re sitting in.

The irony is we sell global connectivity, yet don’t trust our own employees to work remotely on the very networks we provide. It’s a “do as I say, not as I do” situation, and everyone sees it.

If the goal were cost and efficiency, the answer is obvious… let people work from home. Less real estate, no commute drain, same or better output.

Instead, we’re spending more to force people into buildings to do the same work… on a screen.

So what’s the real objective here?

Toptal predicts growth in remote tech roles. These jobs demand extensive prior experience. This trend happens amidst broad technology job cuts. More than 150,000 technology positions were cut by April. AI integration increases demand for expert workers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/toptal-sees-remote-tech-hiring-growth-despite-sector-layoffs/gm-GM25F0E534?gemSnapshotKey=GM25F0E534-snapshot-3&uxmode=ruby

Share the wealth.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000119312519256649/d813177dex10a.htm

FTFA: "In connection with your position, you will not be required to relocate or engage in travel that would result in a change to your current state of residence. "

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlotteobserver_wellsfargo-wfh-workfromhome-activity-7448405383771222016-iAIY

Went in-office for work today, and thankfully no one showed up so I can conduct my virtual meetings in peace. Happy Mental Health Awareness month!!!

Last week I found out that they're doing an RTO mandate for all of tech. An absolute cluster-fck of infrastructure to get 700 roles back in office. I'm sure this will make less driven employees more productive and the shoe designers who cry foul about fairness happy, but for those of us who actually cared about sh-t getting done, all it tells us is that it's time to hit the remote-first market, where there are no haves and have nots, only fair, trusting work models for competent people.

All of your most driven employees are now in the process of self-selecting their way out of the company. Velocity is going to sink as the people with the most initiative start using downtime to send applications instead of make up for their colleagues' deficits.

Just remember this the next time holiday readiness falls apart or you're dealing with unmaintainable copy paste AI slop. You are asking your best to leave, and a lot of us were perfectly content with your sub-par compensation schemes and nonexistent promotions before this because we didn't have to put up with 699 other guys trying to take Zoom calls from an open office with no privacy or hour long traffic slogs.

But at least it's fair now, and you can backfill those roles in ITC, and AI/ML will print infinite money for you any day now, right?

WFH was a success during COVID and could be at any time, it's the person doing the work, not the location. We sell global connectivity yet we do not want to connect employees who are also customers. We all know right now it's a 'do as I say, not as I do'. I'd respect honesty; yet that is not what the top brass offer normally; it's usually smoke and mirrors.

If AT&T wants to reduce its footprint, what better way than making the employee provide their own office? Case closed!

@rw+1kqf86bry is 100% right.

https://hrexecutive.com/remote-work-doesnt-break-company-culture-poor-measurement-does/

Enough said.

Rumors are that some companies (mostly west coast) are returning to Work From Home due to the dramatic increase in gas prices. Any local confirmation of that?