Thread regarding PNC layoffs

The best thing you can do with agoraphobia in an office area is to make your surroundings as inhospitable to others as possible. Personally, I don't have it, but I fa-t at my desk and wear the same clothes and underwear into the office every day.

@1va anxiety is covered, but you have to be able to clearly outline how it’s exacerbated specifically by being in office if you’re trying to work remote. How it creates functional limitations for you to perform your essential duties, why in-office alternative accommodations wouldn’t suffice, how remote work eliminates those functional limitations. Along with your doctor/provider giving their clinical recommendation and summary of your functional limitations.

@1a4 you should have gone through Eric. Your manager cannot approve or deny the request. Your request has to go to HR and go through the approval process. Your manager should’ve told you that.

@1a4 I don’t believe anxiety is protected under the American disabilities act.

Anxiety and clinical depression should be protected under the ADA, and they have to provide reasonable accomodations, and usually in the case for office work that means WFH.

Yeah, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Sorry for your experience. They can’t approve you because of all the liars who would follow suit. This all stems from a ridiculous mandate that never should have been ordered!

@h5 OP should consult a lawyer before saying anything else to management or HR. Find out the options and what leverage they have under the ADA.

@h5 that is not good advice. I’d tread lightly.

I’m sorry you’re going through this but I wouldn’t go any higher in authority. You’re setting yourself up to be displaced. Remember, we are all at will employees. You can be displaced at any given time. They can simply say they no longer need you.

If it’s that difficult for you to come into the office, I would definitely get your resume updated and start looking for another job.

Employees getting approved are for causes such as neuropathy, inability to walk or being in a wheelchair. Things of that nature. Anxiety can be treated. I’m not surprised they didn’t approve it. It seems to be that you yet have documented long standing physical complications. This is just my opinion.

Who is your manager to override what your doctor says? Remote work is a reasonable accommodation under the ADA so definitely look into that route and the laws that are there to protect you. If you've been working remote then staying remote would not cause any undue hardship to the company. I would push back.

@dj it was a huge selling point and they removed what feels like all our candidates.

@d3 i don’t think many external people are even applying to PNC. I know it’s linkedin so taking it with a grain of salt, but every PNC job posting i’ve come across as less than 20 “clicked applied” prior to the RTO announcement they always had over 100.

Go through ERIC, they’re more likely to approve

Did you do a formal accommodation request thru HR/ERIC or did you just got thru your mgr and LOB HR?

We’ll see how much they’re willing to enforce this. I predict people are gonna go in the first week or so, discover it’s a hot mess and people will gradually stop keep coming in. Once they see the aftermath of how it’s impacting their teams we’ll see if they really want to hire new people to fill these roles. Look at all these executives leaving. They see the leadership crumbling. Let’s see what happens.

Unfortunately, your chances of getting an accommodation for this is essentially zero.

Your only realistic options are to go in or find another WFH job.

Have you contacted the ERIC to request an accommodation?

We lost a person in my area for this same reason. Taking it to the CEO or the head of HR isn't going to anything unfortunately.

@OP I mean no ill manner in saying this, but this is the exact outcome they are looking for.