#rto

3 days per week, working 8 continuous hours a day. I heard it. Did you?

I have been coffee badging ever since RTO started and I have never heard anything from my manager about time spent in the office. I am the sole person on my team at my location so I never see anyone I know when I go in. So I typically take a few calls at the office in the morning then head home to finish up.

Reading all the posts here about managers cracking down about number of hours in office makes me curious if I’m the only one who hasn’t had any related time tracking guidance yet? I don’t see myself changing up my in-office routine unless I hear something from my manager directly.

Look what’s happening in tech - irrelevant stats being used to stack rank people because the people in charge don’t have actual strategic ideas. Measuring keystrokes and then showing “improvement “. Lol. Butts in seats. If you don’t trust your managers to manage and your strategy to measure what matters you have more problems than coffee badging. All the mistakes people made at their old banks are coming here.

• Silent and regular layoffs! Fired and rehired new employees for less for the holidays.
• Took a peculiar dump on the principle of Customer Obsession.
• Mandated RTO with apparently no planning.
• Pushed gross profit to AI data centers.
• Violated rights of disabled workers.
• Dismissed Microsoft and Google AI as ‘hype cycle’
• Forced people to uproot their lives, relocate.
• Gave $8B treat to Anthropic.
• Took cumulative compensation of $500 million.

Any for non compliance?

Has anyone heard for sure if exempt (professional and managers) are part of the 8 hour RTO requirement? It’s odd that exempts are not paid for working a specific number of hours, yet they’re requiring it by proxy through this RTO policy. I see that becoming a labor issue.

You folks need to go like Stankey said, plenty of hybrid and virtual. They say a hub but San Ramon is what, what about Missouri, etc and why are AVPs not all in Dallas that was the big press that went under the carpet to which they are not even in hubs, why how did they get the pass card. The company is going to the 1980’s punch card style basically and they don’t care. This SBC style outsource and project managers is underway., you do know ATT was basically bankrupt and SBC bought the name. FACT!! The glory and fixing some locations is a fools game otherwise they know folks would leave in bunches, so out with old and in with book smart maybe that. They hire someone that’s says they have a bachelor degree from a third world country that’s behind armed guards but it’s an accredited school but not USA credited since cost is cheap and so are getting degrees by sliding some local currency to the professors. What has happened to your company and who is really running it since most leadership are less than 6 years from other companies so they left or booted out

Have you heard any locations or organizations that are only required to come in 1 or 2 days a week? Shout them out so those of us that are required to do 3 can look for job openings.

To be announced to certain groups on Friday.

Constantly new changes, every few weeks there’s another round of layoffs, now this RTO cr-p... You start to wonder if it’ll ever stop. Most of us are exhausted and anxious, and are just waiting for the next announcement. That can't be good for productivity, not at all.

Just got out of a meeting with a couple members of leadership. Announcement to come towards the end of October.

It's disrespectful to both the remote workers and those of us who need the desk space. Remote is remote, we allocate and budget the space for a reason ffs.

Hard to stay engaged with so many changes looming.

random team meeting scheduled for next week, no context given. curious if anyone has heard rumors

Are we ready to call RTO a failure and change course? Or do we need to see new lows for the year first?

Sell all the real estate and make wall st happy

The chatter is escalating. Is there actually something to it, or is it just based on reasonable expectations?

I appreciate people sharing what they’ve heard but this is all so vague I’m really struggling to understand how valid this is. Is it RTO for remote? Is it layoffs like in 2015? Has anyone actually been told anything or is this just phone tag at its worst.

Some questions about NewTown Square

Do colleagues still go into the office?
What is the vibe/scene like?
Are customer events still taking place?

Is Cafeteria still very good?

I haven't been there since leaving in 2019 and was curious about the campus.
Always remembered very friendly front desk staff and security guards

Wishing everyone the best

To get people to quit at first, then fire the rest that don’t follow the rules.

Took a new role in CSO based in Charlotte. Anyone here work in CSO? How is that part of the org? Anyone in Charlotte? My understanding is it’s a CSO hub (or rather is becoming one). I understand lots of things are changing, and there’s a lot of frustration around RTO but other than that trying to get a feel for the CSO area.

I haven’t. And God knows what that means. Judging from the rumors, relocation offers seem to be just an easy, cost-free way to push people out in most cases. I mean, who would uproot their life for a job when job security is practically an ancient concept? I really hope this gets clarified soon. Honestly, I’d rather face losing the job than deal with this confusion and anxiety dragging on.

That’s all.

Seems like that’s the plan

https://fortune.com/2025/10/09/in-office-mandates-new-hires-employers-are-sneaking-in-a-hybrid-creep-after-your-offer-letter/?utm_content=socialShare_null&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=social_share

what's your department like? Any word of 4-5x/week back in office?

they are going to ask employees to shift near to the office staring march 2026 ?

I can only imagine many others are in an even worse predicament than I am. And for what? RTO has been rolled out across the country for quite a while now, and there’s plenty of data showing that none of the things they talk about, like collaboration or efficiency, actually improve by herding us back into the office. The only explanation is that they want to make a lot of us quit.

India of course, where else.

Meanwhile in US, we continue to shed. That’s what happens when you don’t like coming back to office. Still empty offices, folks pretending to be “working” from home.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/analytics-india-magazine_bengaluru-is-now-home-to-chevron-indias-activity-7382290414483128320

Finished another week some how. State Farm is just a horrible excuse for an employer and represents all that is wrong with corporate America. For my first 15 years at State Farm I can honestly say I looked forward to going to work just about every single day. These last 10 years have been an absolute clown show. I thought it was bad but it is accelerating at an alarming rate. Everything they do sets you up to fail and ultimately sc--ws the customer over. I'm embarrassed most days to go into work. If we didn't have soo much money State Farm would be out of business within the decade. Please let it be known that 2026 will be the year of a huge exodus (voluntarily and involuntarily) for most people at State Farm. They are trying to get as many people to quit over stress leave. Horrible changes are coming at every turn from the pension, time off, health care benefits, return to work mandates and more unadulterated pressure. They are too cowardly to treat people appropriately and will just continue to destroy lives and careers. There is a special place in h-ll for these people making these decisions. Sold their souls to the devil. Run away as fast as you can, it gets worse!

No, Absolutely not. If I have to drag my tired butt into the office for eight hours, I will not be wasting my lunch time learning anything related to Wells Fargo. I will also not let people schedule meetings with me for eight hours straight. No way. I will be blocking time out for me and my mental health.

I get that many employees just don't care any more. Fraud at ATT used to be something you would hear about through the grapevine. Now employees put little effort into hiding it.

September 13th we went to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. I saw an ATT car in the parking lot and the woman driving was loading 4 children and some muddy digging tools and buckets. All of them were muddy from digging in the Park. Presses the boundaries of personal use.

A guy from another team sits near me boasting about using 6-8 full days each month for Caregiver time so they don't have to pay for childcare. Not working from home, just taking a free day and not logging it.

A guy on my team had hip surgery about 3 years ago. I've never seen him at work more than 3 days in a row in the past 2 years. Not gone to a medical appointment for a couple hours or working Remote, just out of office.

How is this possible? We've seen too many good people be let go. Are there no more checks and balances? Has anyone else noticed an increase fraudulent behavior?

Looks like The Barn staff count is down to 372 ppl on Workday. Anyone here recently laid off from hillsboro?

Does Fiserv require 5 days a week in the office ?

It was not completely egregioius. There was only one significant error in one day that shorted me about 2 hours. Why is it that every error is in AT&T's favor. The system never over-estimates our time in the office.

My manager is full remote and has no issues tell us how nice it is for himself and his family He's able to get to all his son's games. Able to start weekends early. Able to take cae of family tasks on his schedule. How long is this going to go on while we doing the work forced in the office have non of this?

For the same job role in the same group, some are remote, and some are required 4 full days.