#wfh

Work from home is a total joke!
HRBP, GVP, RVP, asset protection, and any other executive positions need to get back into stores 5 days a week ! Put offices in the stores so we can see for ourselves what these folks actually do! Most are making six figures working from home! That’s a disgrace !

This work from home nonsense is driving the company straight into the ground!

Belk has HRBP’s, GvPs, and RVP’S appearing to work full days with the occasional conference call, zoom meeting. when in reality they are at home running errands, watching television, doing yard work, and napping while the rest of us are actually managing the stores!! This is disgraceful and needs to stop!

Anyone know anything about Plano and WFH this next week? Apparently purchase got a wfh notice?

Ok I just quit this he-l hole after being told I was not performing up to exxon s standards. I was told that if I did not step it up I would be placed on nsi pip next year. I have been working 50 hours plus and doing extra work. My supervisor said it was not enough and more was expected of me. I was new to this group and the circle of friends was already set. Several of the other engineers sc--w off all day and talk to the 1st supervisor and the manager. I knew I was sc--wed the day I was moved. One engineer spends all day flirting and talking to the young girls on the floor. Here is the real kicker my supervisor has a psychology degree and the manger has a microbiology degree. I am getting told what to do by people that have no idea of drilling or well completions. My supervisor read off something that was prepared for her to blast me with. She also ki-led me because of my work from home schedule. During my last 1 on 1 f ukig I lost it and told her I was resigning immediately. She was shocked and backtracked her treatment of me. I was contacted by the manager who told me I was overreacting and if there was any thing that would make me stay. I told them both nothing would because exxon was toxic. HR called me and wanted me to sign some bs paperwork. The paperwork stated that I was leaving on my own and would give up my right to sue for wrongful termination. I told that hr a hole to stick it up his ar-e. Goodbye to sick exxon and I suffered 5 years of he-l at it. In all my time at exxon I was always told I needed to do more to perform more. My ranking was always vg to excellent but the constant criticism finally got to me. I think it is just the way exxon tries to motivate and intimidate employees by fear. No amount of money is this constant belittling.

second highest voted question (1st had 102 votes, this one had 96 votes) in Q&A section was related to RTO and got lumped into the rapid fire portion (seems to have been combined with another question about letting local managers decide RTO reqs instead of people much higher in the chain), question was in regards to talent drain in younger employee groups due to RTO, speaker response was essentially nah, you guys are still not showing up a full week, once you do maybe we'll reward you. huh? if the whole company magically starts 5x8 THEN we'll get wfh back? at least stick to the company line and say no way, no debate needed. saying WFH will be restored once we all meet the current policy is a silly answer

If I take one day off in a week, does that mean I get no wfh days that week cuz they said at least 4 days a week in the office ?

…for illness. Lots of coughing in the office. Used to be able to WFH due to illness. What’s the current guidance on this? Will I get pinged if I WFH because I’m coughing a lot, yet still able to work?

The higher salary doesn't seem as important to me as it used to. I'd rather have the ability to work remotely, arrange my day with some flexibility, and not feel that my job owns every waking hour. I know that could mean earning less, but I'm wondering whether people who've made that choice are happier with it?

Curious if anyone knows whether the commercial banking/UW statement spreading team will be eventually forced to RTO? This team's primarily been work from home and job postings still seem to be remote for most part

Any rumors of this group eventually being outsourced to India? Anyone from this group have any insights?

Fidelity is forcing a team to relocate to the city centre, despite the existing office remaining open and the work being perfectly doable from there. Alongside reduced WFH, employees are facing significantly longer commutes for seemingly no good reason.

Why make life harder for employees when a perfectly reasonable alternative exists? Has anyone successfully challenged a forced relocation?

I currently work for UHC (100% remote), and anticipate being let go tomorrow. What is the procedure to turn in the WFH equipment?

Today would have been a good day to be allowed to work from home. It would have been nice for Fidelity to give us the day to do our civic duty and vote. If you look at India, they get the day out of work on election days. Heck, we'll take a work from home day, we don't need the entire day off. That would have been a nice gesture.

Looking to buy a Dell ultra wide for my home setup, but I’ve heard from folks at other banks that their company offers some discounts. Does TIAA offer anything like this?

Bets on us getting ‘work from home because of org changes’ email today?

Our focus is on badge swipes for RTO and building a new campus no one wants because nobody really needs an office anymore. We even sell the service that enables WFH. But don’t worry it’ll be loaded with a bunch of junk that nobody will use because it hasn’t been cool for nearly 25 years. We are always way too late to the game. Starlink isn’t a real threat when you have a multibillion dollar office like this.

Was anyone else approved or in process of a telecommuting accommodation and then got laid off?

People who are being laid off have their badges going inactive on Thursday but are employed until 12/31. So they essentially get to work at home while we have to go into the office 4 days. Nice way to reward your dedicated workers Comcast!

I know everyone is pretty much in the dark but I'm freaking out a bit... I'm an engineer 2 and I've been going through some health stuff and I've been on and off wfh so my swipes are very low for the last 5 months. My managers know and are understanding but idk if the ones doing the layoffs will see it that way.

Tired of coming to the office for zoom meetings! I reserve meeting rooms and people just dial in

https://youtube.com/shorts/6gNYCJma_dw?is=AShP0DnhSXSSJ3jP

How many days are y’all going in a month? Is there anyone who consistently takes Friday’s as a WFH day and hasn’t gotten reprimanded? I am trying to balance my mother’s caregiving schedule/appointments but trying to stay off the watchlist. It’s sad it’s come to this but here we are. God forbid we allow a little autonomy to get both their work and personal obligations done without feeling like they’re doing something wrong.

Has anyone entered a temporary WFH request through Sedgwick? If so can you tell me how the process works? From what I was reading it says that Sedgwick will initiate a dialogue with you about the needs and ask information. It also said sometimes if it’s a first request, they may not need a doctors note. Is that correct? Tell me without details, of course what that conversation was like? thanks all.

I would like to see an audit of the miles expense leaders are claiming. The policy states you must deduct your miles from home to your Report location.

Hope you haven’t been submitting miles for your local commute.Report your directors and Sr managers if you know something.

I keep seeing that pop up in several threads, is that the case?

no more pension, no more work from home, lower pay than competitors, no longer a chill place to work with Joe Park pushing for rapid innovation. Forced to live in Bloomington IL if you want to get promoted.

Literally all of the reasons that made SF a somewhat appealing place to work are gone. if a young person is looking for a place to work they should just go make more at a big bank. SF will just be older employees building up their pension until they retire and are replaced with AI/ HCL contractors overseas.

So for over a year I’ve had a full time accommodation, which you have to renew every 90 days. This time it took them a month to review and with 2 business days left, they denied giving me a bunch of nonsense reasoning, saying your condition doesn’t matter etc. meanwhile half my team has wfh and one just got approved this week, what the heck?

I have been with the bank for a very long time well before COVID. I was just told that if we get sick on our in office day even if that means leaving an hour or two earlier for ONE day, that can put me out of compliance if I already had my WFH day. Before this was ever a thing as long as I had the time I could leave sick whenever and wasn’t penalized for it. What is this company coming to? Why do we preach a work life balance when they sn---h it from us when we have it. Has anyone heard similar to this? How can we protect ourselves and jobs?? I try and work all my office days beginning of the week but I can’t do my WFH days back to back so it leaves me vulnerable if me or my kids get sick

What does it say when you have to force 5-day RTO and then build a new HQ loaded with golf, tennis, pickleball, kayaking, basketball, bowling, shopping, a nail salon, daycare and a mental health clinic?

With all these distractions, how exactly is this supposed to improve productivity? 😂

I thought the whole argument for RTO was that people were “stealing time” while working from home… Apparently that was the problem. Now you can steal time on prem, surrounded by every possible distraction, while still getting credit for being physically at work.

Here’s the question I’d really love to see answered… If every Plano employee were given a completely free choice between working from home or coming into this new HQ, how many would actually choose the office?

I’d bet the overwhelming majority would still choose WFH and that is incredibly telling.

You can build the most elaborate office in the world. You can put a fu--ing country club inside it. You can force people to badge in five days a week. But you cannot force people to actually want to be there. People value flexibility more than corporate playgrounds.

Most people just want to go in when there is a reason to go in, get their sh-t done, and go home. They don’t want to spend their evenings hanging around the office because AT&T installed a bowling alley or a pickleball court.

This is the part leadership seems completely incapable of understanding. The problem isn’t that the office isn’t nice enough. The problem is that people don’t want to be required to be there five days a week anymore.

You can force attendance. You can build the amenities. You can spend whatever you want on the building but you can’t manufacture buy-in.

And forcing people into an office they don’t want to be in while spending a fortune trying to make that office more appealing is about as backwards as it gets.

We are still trying to solve a 2026 workforce problem with a 2006 answer.

Doesn't count for your in-office attendance, which is all management cares about, then don't work from home. Give them your 7 hours and 30 minutes plus lunch and that it.

I don't want to spread rumors but an Analyst on My team told me that they are asking contractors to work from home full time now. The location/ building I am in was indeed surprisingly empty during lunch rush hour.

So, what's going on here? Also, is that as good thing for contractors (or maybe not) and bad thing for us because now they'll get all FTE's RTO full time in all locations?

Dangerous crime strikes again very close to PNC HQ. A stabbing in market square around 5PM Wednesday (9/23). There was no PNC notification sent out alerting us of increased police activity. A time when many of us were leaving the buildings. In typical PNC fashion do not expect executives to mention a single thing about employee safety in the coming days. Would be really cool to ask the CEO in a town hall about what is going on to ensure employee safety. But nope we get to learn about the CEO’s recent book read. Because priorities right! Take a moment and ask yourself this. Is it really worth risking your safety every single day amongst the unruly teens, crazies, dr-ggies and mentally ill to bust your a$$ to a desk to work in an obnoxiously loud environment to do the same thing you were doing (more efficiently) from home for years. While fighting the ever growing monetary cost of life and commuting to and from. We don’t get executive safety. We don’t get awarded huge bonuses. We don’t get a huge compensation increase. We are lucky if we even get above a 1% increase. We get reprimanded because we made a minor non-critical mistake for the first time in 6 months. Our reviews can be tainted by the timeliness of our time sheet submissions. Guess what, the time sheet is the same as everyone else’s and you already know what hours we will input. Thank goodness the surveys are coming so we can voice our frustration and in three months we can hear “We read the employee feedback and will do our best to ensure ‘fair this’ ‘competitive that’ ‘the latest tools’”. Only for the cycle to repeat itself. This is what morale has turned into.

For the brown-nosers who say that is a city problem. You’re right. But the company mandated us to navigate into this criminal arena. At least give a sh!t and provide communication about increased police activity and tips and discussion about employee safety. Nope! Work from home to avoid this crime and/or at the very least be able to fully defend yourself on your own property.

Been wondering how many people got into a low mileage lease based on WFH & now are like ohhhh fxck!

It’s so nice to pay over $100 to fill up. Maybe we (as an organization) can lead the fight against the current energy crisis and reinstate WFH?

Wanted to provide an update based on what was discussed in an executive meeting this week, given some of the questions that have been circulating.

Beginning in 2027 there may be one or two modest adjustments to headcount. These would be targeted and limited in scope rather than another broad reduction. Any changes would follow the usual planning and review process and would be communicated through leaders and the normal channels. Nothing is being finalized at this stage.

Separately, we are introducing a self directed team hybrid structure. Teams will have more flexibility to determine their own in office days based on the nature of the work and what the team needs to deliver. The baseline will be a minimum of three days in the office for most roles, with two days for IT so those teams can stay aligned with ENGINE. Individual teams will work through the details locally rather than having a single calendar applied across the company.

This approach is built on the FlexYes model that has been in place in the ABU Australian business unit. That experience showed that giving teams more ownership of their schedule can still support collaboration and delivery when there are clear minimums in place.

Further details will be shared with leaders as planning continues. In the meantime please continue working with your supervisor on current schedules and expectations.
Thank you.

Of course I get sick on day 2 of RTO. I don't care anymore I'm WFH like you should. None of this stupid pressure and fear of losing my bonus. If they are threatening to take it away its probably already gone.

Just the beginning of Groundhog Day for us all?! This is the daily grind personified.
I just think after 6 years of ft wfh and then hybrid this is going to be a really difficult slope to scale after a couple of months with no let us except an errant holiday or vacation day?
What were they thinking?!!
I’m exhausted just thinking about how tedious this gets and how arduous it is after a long day.
It doesn’t help and it’s not political because gas dollar for dollar was higher under Carter obamma and even joe much higher but it’s painful at the pump. The average on today’s dollar would be between $5-6 on average.

Anyone know the WFH rules? I would like to maximize while not appearing on any naughty lists.

We care enough to send a generic email about the storm but you better be in the office in person. We are monitoring your badge swipes and WFH activity.

Hearing rumors about a VLO opening up in the Spain office. Can anyone currently based there confirm? Is this connected to the recent Work From Home (WFH) policy changes?

Has anyone else been denied for their previously approved work from home accommodations? I've been approved for two years and now I got denied. I dont understand this push to be in the office, its tanking morale