Anyone else get the email for one of the Charlotte locations? They are doing this for when they move to 5 days a week in office.
There is no other reason I can think of. #wellsfargosh!tshow
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I was placed into org-based seating with about 20 other people who are technically under the same umbrella but in totally different areas. Only a handful of people in the “neighborhood” actually work together in any way. My team peers are all in other states. However, several members of scrum teams and business groups I work with daily sit in the building nextdoor to mine. I’m allowed to sit with them for face-to-face collaboration (the supposed point of being physically in-office?) BUT if I do that and don’t make it to “my” building for at least 4 hours of a day (logged in through that network), it won’t count as an “in office” day!
Nah, it is just meant to spur water cooler innovation.
Floors are already designated this way. Maybe some floors are more lax, but neighborhoods are generally “assigned” to specific groups, with the other neighborhoods on the floor being “overflow” if your “assigned” neighborhood is full.
Unassigned
Does anyone know what the seating arrangement be for the employees at the new Ohio hub? I hear they are hiring 350 new techs.
We must treat those ex-JPMrs correctly.
Once all of tech is in India, people won't make that mistake. Sorry techies.
“I am not in technology so this has nothing to do with Agile.”
From reading this board it’s easy to forget that the majority of this banks employees are not in fact in tech.
It seems like they want all of corporate for each business together from what I read. Orbo and bacos makes sense but does each business actually have assigned CRO and ITV? I guess collaboration by business is needed now?
Leave a can of tuna open in a few drawers throughout the floor.
Neighborhood seating is awful btw. Imagine a room full of toddlers screaming into their Elmo headsets thinking Elmo on the other end cares. All while you try to do some work, it’s super terrific.
This sounds like neighborhood seating. When my building switched to it we had a day when no one could come into the office as well.
OP, it's nothing to worry about. You all will probably have a department wide meeting about this once it gets closer to the switchover date. They will explain everything to you then.
If everything needs to be removed from your desk, that must mean you have assigned seating. Now you're just moving to unassigned seating.
Other floors at 3 Wells already have unassigned seating
OP is a mouth breather. Currently a bunch of folks in that building sit by corporate function (eg, Compliance, Credit, etc) not by business line. This changes that.
they are just making you sit with your team when in the office, this way you won't go unnoticed if you pass away
Charlie & Co are working overtime to cause psychological trauma through inconsistency and uncertainty.
I don't know about you, but it makes me want to fu-k with them.
JC in WDM Iowa has already been doing this so no need to panic
OP here, this is more than just neighborhood seating since it will be granular at the business level. Move happens 11/14 and we are told to work from home that day. I am not in technology so this has nothing to do with Agile.
Everything must be removed from any desk you have been using prior to 11/14.
Three Wells Fargo is the building.
The OP needs to provide more info than just a title.
Are you referring to neighborhood seating? No assigned seats just assigned area to sit? That’s been in motion across the firm all year.
The only business aligned seating I know of is the restroom.
Business aligned seating?? WTF.
"The upper management feels that RTO is necessary for the agile methodology to succeed at Wells Fargo."
Efficiency / Agile has proven they cannot coexist, take one or the other.
What do you mean by business aligned seating? What building?
Charles doesn't give an S about collaboration. He just wants to F with people so more will quit.
Nothing about their hiring practices and offshoring suggests they care about agile colocation.
Wait, wasn't the whole justification of RTO despite geographically dispersed teams that innovation would be fostered by cross-collaboration of people from differing areas of the bank?
This management team is schizophrenic, get them some Haloperidol, Fluphenazine, and Chlorpromazine.
Charlie wants you to collaborate. The upper management feels that RTO is necessary for the agile methodology to succeed at Wells Fargo.
Looks like Charlie is here downvoting posts.