#rto

Rumor is that SM is going to be firing people who don't comply with the mandatory RTO order in Palm Bay the week after the mandate begins...

Welp, there goes my raise. Gone before I even got one payment.

With tensions in the Middle East pushing oil prices up again, gas is likely heading higher. For those of us forced to commute five days a week, it’s money straight out of our pockets.

Do the math. A pretty normal commute is 25–50 miles each way, or 250–500 miles a week. In a typical car getting about 20 MPG, that’s roughly 13–25 gallons of gas every week just to show up and badge in.

If gas jumps from around $3 to $5 a gallon, that’s about $25–$50 more per week, or roughly $1,500–$3,000 per year in extra fuel alone.

And that’s before tolls, maintenance, wear on the car, or the second vehicle many families had to buy because five-day RTO made sharing impossible.

At the end of the day, five-day RTO isn’t just inconvenient. For a lot of people it’s effectively a pay cut for work we’ve already proven can be done from anywhere.

Big F-U to the “leadership”. I hate this place.

Been working for years at T and not able to crack interviews in other companies due to technological shifts and not enough preparation. So the only choice left is to RTO and keep the job to put food on the table. The sooner the better.

i still can't comprehend the reality that there were people in a room deciding this is a necessary idea, are high level meetings just a bunch of sanitized robots? is there a culture of treating people lesser than? what has it achieved im still doing individual work plus teams meetings and not a single in person meeting

night and day difference in quality of life for the worse, just why?

Looking to apply at this location, please give me scoop on RTO. Current schedule is currently 3 days- is there any talk of going to 5? Thanks.

Who even believes that anymore? It's been about attrition from day one.

I got sent screenshot of my office report after I was told I wasn't making it in the required amount of time. (I had an approved exception for some time January, which wasn't factored into the report making it look like, I haven't been in the required time).

4 hrs of pto counts as a day in as do holidays.

Ask any questions you may have!

Has Amit hinted he might enforce a RTO…?

Checking in on the global RTO rollout: I’d love to hear from colleagues in the UK and EU offices. Has your local leadership confirmed a specific Phase 2 start date yet or are local labor regulations still being navigated? It would be great to compare notes on how the transition is being handled outside the US hubs.

RTO is absolute insanity. I have 10 people on my team. None of us are in the same state outside of two people in Texas who aren't in the same city. We have to go back to the office, surrounded by employees we dont work with or collaborate with in any way, so we can join the same remote teams meetings we would while home. Now I find out from someone in cyber security that they are monitoring our key strokes, web searches and Microsoft apps.

RTO was about the executives leveraging their control over one of the few bright spots we had working here, flexibility.

I'm in a location with RTO mandated Tues-Thu. I'm complying when I can, but I need to maximize my productive work time to control the impact this place has on my life. That means sometimes I work from home and I appear on the list for non-compliance with RTO. Could they use that to deny my severance if I'm laid off? I don't trust this organization.

RTO = Bad

What a world. The president started a war at his home resort club, meanwhile the bank is going to fire anyone not working 8 hours in office and now they are tracking in office time.

Meanwhile, Mortgage people were given their notice.

What a cold place

What happened to this once great bank

Someone recently commented here they were hearing some orgs might be going from office to fully remote. Any more details?

I can’t believe how overcrowded and busy this branch is now. AUS3 is packed to the brim and it’s an absolute joke how messy this process was. So ecstatic to have my headphones in 8 hours a day while I work with people scattered across the country and the WFH contractors. Amazing returns on RTO for me, I still don’t need to speak to a single person in office since I don’t work with them! Thanks for the massive pay cut via commute time, gas, and vehicle wear and tear!

Just an FYI. Our division head was told Friday, IP address tracking and log in times are now being used to cross check FULL days in office. The reporting has always been around, senior management is now reviewing on a monthly basis.
There is discussion regarding adding a dropdown when logging in as well. Attesting when you are logging in, In Office or Remote.

I’ve never worked at a place where they put this much effort into trying to punish employees.

Read here that a tiny group might get to stay remote, at their manager's discretion. Any real criteria behind it, or just who you know?

Am I the only one thinking about this? Is anyone else concerned we have to go into the office every single day… in time square…. After ellisons buddy Trump started a war with Iran….. commute in the busy subways to the office IN TIME SQUARE…. so now on top off thinking about layoffs survival I have to think about ACTUALLY surviving life just to get to work where I don’t actually have to sit in the office to do my job? Anyone else?

This is the "woman" who went MIA when her workforce was being gutted with 15,000 layoffs. Now she is holding up post it notes suggesting that employees should love their employer to make the company successful.

Are other employees so delusional they buy into this nonsense? Is she that far removed from reality? Is she still smoking the same stuff that made her think employees said they wanted to return to the office and stated that in their employee surveys?

Do these executives do this stuff and then meet to laugh at how gullible their employees are?

Has anyone heard of any changes to in-office expectations from 4 days to 5 days in office?

My director told me the other day that execs are only looking for a minimum of 45 days/quarter of in office visits. A quarter is 13 weeks which c ums out to be 65 business days. Which is basically 3-4 days/week and is also the same as what it was when it was optional 2 years ago. PTO and holidays don't count against you so, at least you can plan your RTO visits now. I sure af will anyways.

I also asked if they have plans on monitoring IN OFFICE time and he said no but if they ever do, then it has to go through legal and HR first, then be made an official policy.

FYI, those of you who are going in 5 days/week and working 8 hours IN office... technically speaking, your orgs execs can't hold you to being in office for 8 hours as that is not an official policy.

The policy is that they monitor badge swipes. There is zero mention of time spent in office, however. Heck, even my director told us with a wink to do with that info as we wish - aka badge swipe and go home, if you want.

Long story short, there is NO policy that demands ANY employee stay for 8 hours a day, or any set amount of time. Those of you who are, are being taken advantage of by your loser executives.

Companies left and right are using AI to justify mass layoffs. Our leadership is peddling AI all over the place. We know Stankey is probably foaming at the mouth at the opportunity to ax tons more people and use AI to justify it like they use RTO as a cover for mass layoffs.

So explain why the he!! we are spending over a billion dollars to build a new playground that requires a specific number of people to be there in order to get Plano’s bribe? Shouldn’t someone maybe ask this question?

Just saying.

Has the RTO threshold changed? I am outside of the 35 mile distance to RTO but learned today I am on the 2nd wave of teammates to RTO. I am 38 miles from a designated Truist office.

Does anyone know if managers can see times we come in and how many hours we are in each day?

Does a “badge swipe” count if you only badge at the front doors, or do you have to also badge at the turnstyle? Asking for a friend

I am anticipating my time to relocate (not sure where) might come anytime. My product has a lifecycle of a few years, but many of team members have relocated and many experienced leaders retired due to age and RTO. My motivation to work is low and minimal human interaction is gutting me.

Should I relocate and hope to switch projects? My spouse is under stressful situations at work too with tons of work and wants to quit if I relocate or become stable somewhere.

I am unable to find work outside T due to various factors (skill gap, unfair RTO demands)

If I relocate,,we will take a major financial hit. What to do? Leap of faith of faith RTO or should I quit?

Will there be layoffs in 3rd or 4th quarter after RTO attrition and after-bonus retirements? I’m thinking the aforementioned won’t be enough to avoid layoffs.

VPs and above are not going into the office while others are forced to go in 5x a week. These “leaders” have excuses like they’re at an offsite or their car keeps breaking down. There is even a VP who takes a flight from Florida each week to go into the NY office but does not go in every day. Meanwhile its been sparse at the office with anyone below VP level and people come in for just a few hours. There’s even some talk between senior leaders about only coming in some days. Some teams go in everyday while others on different floors don’t seem to be going in at all. There’s no work, people scrolling on their phones all day, and people on the same floor slacking each other because they don’t want to walk to their meetings. And looks like they’re still hiring remote positions.

This place is a sh-t show, pays like sh-t, and we get treated like sh-t. Meanwhile “leadership” gets paid more than 6 figures, have people cook and clean for them, people to take care of their kids, while we have to slave away in traffic and do nothing at the office. DE said RTO was so successful, but what is even the measurement? The guy talks out of his a-s and the so-called “leadership” covers for each other but not for the people who are actually doing whatever work there is.

Make it make sense!

Anything worth sharing here?

How many of you are planning to no show next week and continue working from home? The more of us that do it, the harder it will be for them to punish us. Who’s in??

Looks like last year was a very good year. Bonus should be good this year, cannot wait. RTO is working. Thank you all for doing the needful.

It's recently come to my attention that any remote employees that live close to an office they are able to travel to will be told to go back to office again. There are teams that are remote only that will be told the same thing that do not live anywhere close to an office and will have to either move, or will be let go.

Yes, I know it's been a year and change but it's pointless for some of us. I get the RTO for certain teams I suppose but for those who are on teams/orgs that are literally GLOBAL it makes zero sense.

I drive an hour to work daily only to "collaborate" IN PERSON, with ONE person whom lives 15 mins from the office. What do we collaborate on, you ask? Absolutely fkn nothing! Unless you count gossip, and bi--hing about Dell as collaborating, anyways...

Oh but then, we have to join VIRTUAL meetings because 99% of the team is... remote or in fkn Europe, or other parts of the USA!

I just love driving 320 miles/week and tolls to go sit next to a coworker for 10 hours/week, though. If I know he's not going in or is on PTO, I don't go in. At the very minimum I make the drive and coffee badge because f that bs. I get every bit as much work done at home while playing video games all day than I do sitting in the office watching netflix on my phone.

So, they waited until 4:20 AM to send a text to announce the office was closed due to 18 inches of snow, yet last month when we were already working from home due to office renovations, they sent the alert out at 7 pm Sunday night, and that storm was about half the size.

I think most people were out shoveling snow instead of working online, can’t blame them lol. I know I snuck offline for a few hours for that very reason, barely did squat today. That’s a big middle finger to SK. You could literally do nothing, WITHOUT taking a personal day, and nobody could give a flying fadoodle.

With that being said, I’m guessing this stupid three in-office day rule applies this week?

Has anyone tried to use WFA days in 2026? Does the system force you to input 2 consecutive days, and does Friday/Monday count? Thanks.

With the peanuts netapp pays, who can afford to live close to office ? With RTO you will just lose young talent and not the ones you are aiming . Don't forget about the burn out due to commute. This is just d-mb.

Does anyone know why some Sr Manager and above still are WFH while IC has to come 3 times a week. Also, many IC are WHF upon manager and director approval even they are less than 50 miles. Not sure what is company rule.

Hello, can someone in this group help me answer to this question please my life depends on it. I am hired as completely remote employee now with these new polices will I be removed from job if I choose not to go into office ?? My manger collected nearest Hub from my home which is 300 miles away and I have to turn my life around to make that happen meaning leave my freinds and neighbors everything that I built socially

More information coming out about the devaluing of WFH by corporate America. Su-ks, we all know how much more productive we all are, why don't the corporations see it? This makes no sense other than... corporate always wins!!!! RTO or GO, have a great weekend everybody!