#workfromanywhere

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2026/02/02/att-to-hire-400-bilingual-employees-with-1500-sign-on-bonus-for-hybrid-work/

Make this make sense.

We lay off people by requiring them to move to a Hub city at their own expense and reapply for their job (or they are declared surplus/laid off). Then, a year later, they are back as a contractor, and RTO doesn’t apply to contractors.

If it is so darn important to have everyone in an office, why aren’t we ALL in the office? Why doesn’t AT&T thrust their own employees, but is happy to let a third party person have access to the same systems and networks remotely full time?

Just read that Home Depot did a layoff and had an RTO of 5 days a week.......do we think Fiddelke will announce an RTO? I could see it happening as a way to continue eliminating roles rather than doing mass layoffs????

RTO is the industry standard---Live with it

Just found out the hard way that they cut a lot of people and made others but not all go back to the office

I'm virtual in Europe, do I have a number on my back ?

How long have I left realistically

This company is cooked almost as much as this administration. Layoffs can't come soon enough. Free me

https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/kevin-oleary-loves-why-his-companies-will-never-force-a-return-to-the-office/91291726

I haven't heard anything beyond recent rumors, but that means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Was anyone from this org able to stay as a remote employee? Seems like this org’s layoffs really hit remote workers hard. Some very talented and hard working people were let go from this org.

In my team, some people ignored the whole hybrid thing and come to office once a month, why should I come in 5 days a week

Note : nothing happened to that person, they are still working away

What is RTO policy for non exempt employees? We don’t have access to the average hours dashboard, do we still have to RTO 5 days?

Get ready for the RTO email and the chaos that will ensue

North America right away but it will be the same for rest of world shortly once the company has spoken to work councils

Get ready for 5 days of coughing / spluttering / loud noise / body odor / alcoholic breath and fun !

I am considering joining Chase in the US, but is it full 5 days in office? I am coming from another company that is not fully 5 days in office. Do they track attendance here strictly?

Heard from a reliable source, that managers will be required to do 5 days a week in office from Sept this year and everyone from March 2027. Anyone else heard this?

Fired? No consequence if they go for some days?

What does it show? Does it breakdown hours by day? Or does just show average or a bucket you fall in(7+ hours)

Typo fixed.

With Pune announcing they will stop working at 11pm their time around 12:30pm EST,
NYC teams are scrambling as the teams do NOT have appropriate staffing to perform the job or experience due to all the layoffs over the past years.

Doesn't affect me I'm in the office 5 days already.

They will be tracking our badges for compliance. Also told that more of the old buildings are being opened up to accommodate.

Question for those that didn't RTO 4 days, what is for status?

Hard to believe how much things have changed. What used to be a busy, collaborative place now feels like a complete ghost town. Empty floors, no energy, barely anyone around. It honestly feels like The Walking Dead, people just showing up, wandering around, and ki-ling time.

There’s not much actual work happening here anymore. Teams are gone or spread out, roles eliminated, and a lot of the real work seems to have moved elsewhere or just disappeared. So what exactly is the point of RTO when you come in and there’s nothing to do?

Curious if others are seeing the same thing. Is this just a slow fade until the site eventually shuts down?

Considering moving from Wells to BOFA. Is there any talk of going from 3 days in-office to 4 or 5? Or is there a required # of hours per day you need to be in office? What else should I know?

https://x.com/The_TUC/status/2008145671535116525

The last few times I have contacted IT, It has been very obvious that they are at home. For instance, one guy was having a party at his house and angrily did everything he could to get me off the phone to return to that party. The last person to help, I could hear an actual rooster crowing in the background. I thought we built these overseas buildings and spent billions of dollars, why are they at home?

Does anyone know if the in office reporting is working correctly for cloud users? Does it show 8+ even if you didn’t stay that long?

I don't understand what anyone will achieve by reducing work from anywhere days from 10 to 8. Like wtf company will benefit from extra 2 days a year in office work. Like it's not even vacation just wfa.

It's just feels like RV personal hate for all BNY employees showing up. It's bitter and vindictive and servers no real purpose. What even is the point of this.

What a nonsense.

Keep seeing that we are going in firmwide 4 days starting April 1. Can anyone confirm?

The branches close at 2pm on the 24th but our dept is staying open until 5. To make matters worse they said we couldn’t work from home that day and had to report to the office. I’m just curious if this is just our dept or are all internal depts working all day on the 24th?

Don't forget! Don't end up on the naughty list

Or is Office First policy being quietly ignored now…seems so many folks have reasons not to come into the office that the whole policy is not really being enforced

There are rumors that something is changing in current work model. For example that work from office will be more strict - not like now where no one is checking this. Do you have any other insights?

I have recently joined the MSR team. People talk about using JAR for RTO. Can someone explain what that is?

These a--holes have the audacity to force people to wfh full time and are now asking if you will relocate so when you say no they can fire you

Hi my manager told me that the bonus decisions are made by HR - they have their own policies..

I got an overall year end rating of 2/2/3..wondering how that will look for bonus time.. I have not been going into the office regularly too some weeks i go in twice some weeks i go in once, some weeks i go 3x..

will that affect my bonus?

We received 9 inches of snow yesterday and the streets and walkways are full of ice.

There will be many falls, injuries, and lawsuits as a result.

A responsible and reasonable corporation would have advised their employees to stay safe and work from home.

At least I punched the clock!

All future home office hires will be within commutable range. 4 days a week starting June 2026. Previously grandfathered home-office arrangements will end (minus those granted under ADA). Associates on campus are expected to be ON campus and associates working remotely are expected to be logged in and engaged during normal business hours for their specific work schedule - AT THE SAME LOCATION FOR THE ENTIRE DAY. HBA people leaders in grades 13 and up will be required to work 1 full week per month on a home office campus (4 consecutive days).

Info from @f8+1kc1xe1v0, reposting for visibility.

Why are they giving us computers the equivalent of chromebooks? We need better computers to do our jobs.

What a Chromebook is best for
• Web browsing, email, schoolwork, streaming, Google Docs
• Simple, fast, secure tasks

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/att-ceo-john-stankey-says-made-mistake-when-told-employees-to-return-to-office-5-days-a-week-or-leave-but-the-message-was-not-wrong-instead/articleshow/125891727.cms