#workfromanywhere

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.

Has anyone heard anything about set in office hours being put into place?

Heard a rumor that the company plans to eliminate hybrid work starting in 2027. Unsure if this is just for folks that are hybrid in Minnesota and DC where hybrid employees are expected already to come in 4 days a week. Anyone hear anything about this?

Timeline of events:

1. Voluntary layoffs (leave on your own accord)
2. General Layoffs (you don't see it coming)

Makes sense if your no where near an office to leave now, enjoy the holidays and find another job? I assume general layoffs early next year would wipe out anyone not near an office?

With winter coming up are we gonna get flagged if leaving early etc or as long as you swipe it’s fine?

I couldn’t land a job and have to move to big city. It’s a painful move with no certainty what will happen after 6 months in this company. Now, I am certain many people moved this way. Have you gotten comfortable in the new routine or actively trying to get out? Did you adapt to 5 day RTO?

I have multiple people on my team who do not show up for work during RTO week at least once or twice.

I want to report them and get them in trouble.

What's the best way? I want to be anonymous. Proof is in the pudding. When they investigate, they will know. They don't need to know who I am!!!

When I first joined Fidelity my team/business unit were almost entirely in one building. We had a small India team but on the whole we were co-located. Over the years with technology and pandemic everything fractured and folks were more and more on little islands. Now, there are maybe 10 people out of the hundreds I work with that are in the same location.

I suspect that the long term goal of RTO is get back to a heavily co-located site strategy and they are trying to figure out how small the team can be to reap the benefits of co-location. I don’t think it will reach the “whole business unit” level, but I think we will see more and more location locks happening for job postings as the move for building capacity strategy to team co-location strategy.

In five years things will look very different.

My director just met with my group about attendance. Seems the 25% minimum in office per your requirement is going to 50%. Not exactly sure when. Also, they are on to people who badge in and immediately leave. I heard some offices require you to badge out. More good times here.

Anyone know why there are now interns but they are contractors?

Think most of them have a title of “early career - x-x” and talking to them they are part of TEKSystems

Seems over engineered to hire interns but do it through a company.

I've been hearing rumors about 5 days in the office starting in January from people in different parts of Ford. Any insights on this?

I see more and more job postings with Houston as the primary or secondary location. What do we think is going to happen long term? Do we really need three offices?

Senior leadership has a metric to review every employees’ productivity across LOBs. They review the metric every quarter. RTO is not about sitting in the office, RTO is about delivering in the office.

I've heard rumors going back a few years that employees will eventually be required to work in the same location as their manager. Is this still the plan?

Next round targets specific groups:
If you are below meets expectations
If you are on a pip
If you average less than 3 days a week in office
If you average less than 7 hours in office per in-office day
If you are sole team employee at location
If you have a history of over reporting to HR

Bye!

I know a few people, and I'm also looking for something else. Still, it looks like it's fewer people than I expected.

I am hearing they’ve changed the tracking for in office hours to time connected to the network. Does anyone know if this is true? So if I come into the office and badge in at 8am and spend the first half of the day on the phone with the help desk because I can’t log in those four hours don’t count? I had thought it was badge in/out time?

So apparently if you didn't average 3 days in the office over the last three quarters, you may not qualify for an Outstanding rating or a promotion.

Is this actually confirmed? And how are they calculating it? PTO, holidays, business travel, manager-approved WFH?

The part I don't understand is how you can apply this retroactively. Someone could have delivered everything their manager asked for and still get penalized based on badge swipes.

Does anyone actually know what HR is using to calculate these averages? Can employees even see their own numbers?

Ok, all you coffee badging, Costco shopping, laptop leaving, anti-collaborating RTO deniers, the con is up. The Stank is going to know how long you spend sipping your latte, getting your steps in, perfecting your golf swing, working on your penalty kick or kayaking on Lake Stankey. The Surplus Squad will not need a name on an office to find you when it is time for your layoff.

That’s what management told us, stop talking about RTO and move on.

NO. We won’t stop talking about because you keep changing the rules and making up reasons RTO is beneficial, such as when RTO started, they said it was for security reasons.
That was an obvious lies about data security because all of our data is accessible by remote employees in India. Then they said it was collaboration, well, many of us sit by ourselves and talk to our team members all over the country, we don’t sit next to them.

Then they changed from 11 days a month to now 13 to 15 days a month, and we have to make up dates to be OVER 60 percent quarterly. And then they have the nerve to lie and say nothing has changed. And they said it was retroactive, so most of us came in 11 days and didn’t meet over 60 percent, now we get zero raise and Lower bonuses because of it.

And now they will soon require 8 days total log in time at the office, retroactive , again.
My manager said I was ok to work 6 hours in office and work the rest of the hours at home and avoid the heavy traffic. Now that is no longer ok in a couple of months, worse parts is it’s retroactive, they have the data, just not displayed for us in workday.

Why they continue to treat us salary exempt employees as hourly employees to be monitored to the seconds we are in office? What does this have to do with our job performance??

I don't have any co-workers at my office (or state) but am required to come into office 4 days per week. My co-workers in India, who do have other workers at their sites, are only required to come in 10 days per month. Is this discrimination against the US workers to get them to quit? When I ask AI, it says yes and gives online fed agencies to enter in complaints to. Has anyone done this? Which agency did you lodge your complaint? Even if it goes no further, I'd like to enter in a complaint about this company's H1B and offshore Anti-American worker policies.

Any changes ?

Is an extension for a few months possible after one gets the RTO letter? Whom does one go about asking on dire need?

In my manager is remote, and I just stopped going in and was working from home, how long until they get the reporting?

When there is no space to assign, why these leads asking to come to office. App shows all space is booked.

Are agency workers needed to be in office? Not sure why managers keep mentioning about coming to office whereas contract mentions remote

biased and unfair policy of only a few locations having to be FT RTO is because Boston is crushed economically and Maura is demanding of business leaders this mandate.
Look no one wanted it, being asked to stop coming into the office during COVID. I was ready and prepared to do it but everyone lost their minds.
So we all hunkered down and with massive profits thanks to us we showed wfh was not only viable but beneficial.
Ok I get it they’re paying utilities rent etc but a balanced system is what we had in place.
Win win for everyone.
But once again the imbeciles blew it up and are forcing us in.
I’m tired of being a pawn in the communists tactics.
This state is cooked people are leaving in droves it’s a too expensive “commonwealth” and this only adds to the desire to get the heck out of here.
I don’t really want to move or find a new job but unless Maura stops with her pet projects and abusive taxes fee and regulations she’s driving it into the ground.
She knows nothing she takes her marching orders from others.
I’m super disappointed Abby succumbed to this pressure and wonder what taxes Maura dangled over her head to force this inane and stupid policy.

Weds night, I laid in my bed thinking "not only do I have to go in tomorrow, I also have to go in the day after"

Traffic, office buzz, constant distractions, lack of personal space, zero ability to focus.

Just give us at least one day a week to work from a place where we can actually get work done.

As a reminder, due to lack of funds, few available personnel, and the spiritual holidays, we will be working with a skeleton crew in late October.

Make of that what you will.

Just gonna leave it here:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/17/barclays-staff-return-to-office-travel-working-from-home

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlym1n9kpyvo

Ever since they rolled out this pos seat booking workplace app, I often wonder the brains behind this. The problem was bad earlier with people just booking (and blocking) even if they are not coming. But with RTO, there is no space left to book. What to do? Anybody encounters this? This is in Canada btw

I have a question. Since we are a Global Bank and I am based in NAM but deal globally, would I be able to go in the office on a holiday and have that counted towards my 3 day requirement. For example, we have an upcoming holiday in October. If I go into the office that day would that count?

TRP is finally requiring groups that have been working fully remote to return to the office four days a week, bringing them in line with the rest of the workforce. For once, the company’s talk about treating employees equally appears to be reflected in its policy.

Will the new $1.3 billion campus have any lodging for those who have longer commutes. This would be great as it would provide an option to stay on campus during the week.

Here in Poland, at the Łódź manufacturing facility, the workload has been quite low lately—I would even say there is practically no work, especially on progressive lines and Line L1, where the vast majority of components are routed upstream to departments L3 and L4 (server production).
On Wednesday, a massive wave of layoffs hit two shifts, letting go of a significant number of agency workers. As a result, the total headcount was cut almost in half. To retain valuable personnel or certain individuals of interest, management is reassigning them to other departments where work is still available.
My question is: Is the situation the same at other Dell sites, or is it different elsewhere?

The MN location I'm out - keeps getting areas reserved for group 'xyz'. And the tool to reserve cubes is never updated to reflect that. The notion that 'you can work in any office' that's close to you..... is a farce.

Are IPs really being tracked I have been doing the four hours but only see mac 2 people , curious if there is ways around this and I’m missing out on this? Doesn’t it matter for bonus or am I just wasting my time?

Why it’s always empty .
Everyday, every time I go there, it empty. Rows upon rows of empty desk.

No one comes to work in this office. Yet they say it’s full and booking is hard.

Based on Slack numbers we're down like 450 or something actives, beginning with around 26,000-something.

I guess maybe the 20% is over the course of a couple years but IDK

Anyone still around in US timezone after the latest round is executed, be prepared to work during IDC timezone in addition to the regular hours that you already do as you all will be reporting into IDC.

IDC VPs have figured out there are no jobs in US . So IDC experience and work hours can be rolled out to every one left in US.