Any word or rumors on the fate of the 10,000 employees who don’t have an office to go back to? I’m sure the plan is still to replace them with new hires in the hubs. Hoping they might start offering severance the people who want to voluntarily leave.
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Good luck, only things that matter are what tippy wants.
Look at the hands of those VP's. Never put a hard days work in their life. Look at their bottoms. Plenty of roughness there from sitting on the bahinds doing nothing.
The company is doomed, listened to 2 VP level employees talk about their unconscious bias when they expect hard work from their subordinates. I guess they are pandering to the hubs if hard work is now considered a bias when expected from our employees.
Company will sink even faster if they rely on hubs and eliminate the LOC 10k. The LOC 10 out performs the HUB 50 by far! Good luck 🍀
Only if they have the SMART goals in place. Some do....some dont...
Ha! What full day of work do you think you are doing in a hub that everyone else is ducking?
It’s still pretty easy for management to measure productivity of WFH employees. Actually, it is the exact same as if we were in office. The only thing we get to avoid is a commute, and I’m happy to have that extra hour of my day.
Easier to hid behind a computer. Work = Results to Company Goals.
What a clown below. Employees outside the hubs are working full days full of work too. It's not like you don't have to work if you're not working out of a hub.
Move to the hubs..but warning you will actually have to work hard and put in a full days work.
They are hiring high school dropouts in the ATL hub? In what positions?
3oct
The call to move into the hubs started in 2012. Those that were willing/able to move have done so already. You guesstimated 25% of LOC employees would move - way too high IMO. I'd be surprised if 10%, given the option of a paid relocation to a hub, would take it at this point.
Don't count on them!
@3rfg - No, they don't care if you are good employee or not. You are number and if its up your out the door!!
No question most will opt not to move and that is certainly something they are banking on. I would guess 25% of those LOC employees choose to stay on or move.
People are not inclined to move for the company anymore unless it's for a promotion. Just the way the farm wants it.
Even if they get some to move, they can't keep people in the hubs. What makes you think WFH people are going to move in those kinds of numbers?
Pretty sure if you want to stay on, are a good employee, you will have the option to move to a hub.
Outsource it!!
@2uxe if you read the LOC docs they have put out there and stated "it is our intention to have most jobs in the hubs". So it is not if but when they decide to let the people from LOCs who are WFH go. With 10k of us, this is a multi-year process. They cannot hire and train enough people in claims fast enough and with our double-digit turnover rate in claims that just compounds their problem with replacing steady and stable employees working from the luxury of their finished basements with the HS dropouts we are seeing hired in our ATL hub.
I guess they could tell us all jobs that were in the LOCs are now going into the Hubs and there is no more WFH, but it might be tough for them to set a timeframe for this with the uncertainty of the pandemic. The pandemic might buy some time for those of us who need another year or two and have no plans to ever work in the Hubs.
We should know about future plans for the LOCs employees by the end of 2nd quarter, if not sooner. As someone said earlier, be smart...get prepared now.
Here's a cookie! Now sleep on the ground in the parking garage and shut up! There's inclusion for you.
Last time I checked, executive was primarily run by light coloured people. Stop crying and do your job. Welcome to the real world Neo.
Any news will not be rumor. It’s simple, wfh until we say so, or until we have sufficient staffing I. The hubs to do the work. More automation fewer-people needed. Remember, it s a business , only a business was.
Less gas, less coal, less energy = less cars = less jobs = less insurance.
You know what their mission is. Be smart. Get prepared now.
I feel that the original road map projection by end of first quarter was hopeful the pandemic was nearing a close... as we know, it’s not, so expect them to drag it out longer with any definitive news. They cannot afford to announce an end to WFH for LOC employees and risk losing a copious amount employees before they can re-enter the hubs and hire replacements.
In previous post, I meant to say they told us we will know "more" by end of first quarter. That's an important distinction, as we may not have definite answers even then. Sorry for the typo.
They told those of us in the LOCs to continue working from home "for now" and we will know by end of first quarter of 2021. So its wait and see. Hopefully it's a long process and we still get to work from home for awhile before they move everything into the hubs. Or, best case scenario, they decide to keep some WFH jobs within the claims operation. But I am not counting on that.