Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Better yet, OP, we should break the leases of buildings that cannot be fully sublet and stop spending on any office space at all outside of corporate (and draw up plans to downsize on office space there to further reduce costs).

Offices are a waste of space and money, convert them into apartments like we did old factories when they stopped being useful and other office buildings.

The money saved by dropping useless office space would outweigh any costs from reduced productivity (if any, since evidence for remote work reducing productivity and value delivery is completely lacking for workers not doing data entry).

For people who think offshoring is the future of remote positions, you are kidding yourselves. Almost all office jobs in every single industry can be done remotely, and so can in-person positions like cashiers. There is no way government (state and federal) would allow corporations to totally gut their tax bases - a new tariff (labor tariff) would be created to artificially inflate the cost of offshore labor so that it was uncompetitive with labor done within the US, tax penalties would be imposed on companies that offshored too much (or tax incentives created to encourage work within US borders), and all other developed countries would enact strategies like this too since their workforce would be mostly offshorable too.

The office as a concept has already died and is dropping to the ground, it just has yet to hit that ground. People who are advocating for a mass return to offices are standing athwart history, crying, "Stop!". But history does not care, and it will bulldoze those who stand in its way.

You people refusing to come to office are why they are offshoring. They can Zoom with someone at half the cost.

You can tell the people posting that they love WFH due to watching TV all day dont work at State Farm. You would be on a report by the end of the week and in a coaching meeting the next monday. They track everything, and even if you do watch TV, they are tracking how much work you do. Everyone working here knows that, so the question is, why are you here posting? This is directed at the OP, whos language is very obvious across this forum, who is also the "i love watching netflix" poster and the "cut their salary poster" You are not as smart as you think here. Its very obvious, and has been the whole time. Find a new hobby.

Just saw an email about reorganizing spaces for in office. It would be absolutely astounding and mind blowing, after 3 years of employee feedback, to ignore anything the employee wants, and go back to a "lets sit in traffic 5 days a week and commute" setup....all so executives can have watercooler chats while the rest of us stress one minuet over on a lunch, with zero downtime in the day to enjoy anything about being in the office.

The office su-ks. Dont force people back more, unless high turnover is the name of the game. Still waiting after like 7 years of promises to fix that....some action...any....WFH as a permanent option is a step in the right direction.

@6tob First of all, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect. Watch your mouth and help me with the claim.

@6byp-based on your nomenclature you are obviously not employed by SF. Go away troll and get a new hobby.

Either cut salaries of teleworkers or provide an adjustment to those willing to work in office

We’ve been working from home just fine. Ignore the record losses, high turnover, increasing complaints. It’s going great!

Would make even more sense to not renew the leases, since no one wants to work in a congested area office, and weve been just fine with mostly WFH since 2020.

So I guess the question for executives is: whats more important, what the employees want and what costs less, or, egos of managers/executives who want to be in office.

Last i checked we werent short staffed at the executive level, but VERY understaffed on all productive roles. Maybe its time to cut those expenses, widen our available labor pool, and make everyone happy?

Yi is an inside joke. Former exec.

Why would you post your name! Lord. And to the people watching Netflix. Shut up. I cam promise you the people in injury busting tail as a CS don't wanna hear it. We don't have time for that sorry. We also don't have time for people to not do their jobs

Agree that we need to go back into the office but I think there should be a remote option. Everything should be at management’s discretion. Someone not performing well but wants to stay remote? Come into the office or get your sh*t together. Someone performing well but really needs to stay remote for kids, no car, disability, etc ? Let them stay fully remote. I think we need to put more trust in our employees and let our managers figure out what works for each person.

We also need flexibility. Give me a cubicle and if I’m doing a good job, let me decide whether I want to work from home or come into the office. If you need me in the office, let me know. I am an adult and I will figure it out.

People will quit

No cost of living allowence

But make us pay for commuting?

What about remote employees?

Close the hubs is a better idea

No way. I have too much fun working from home, watching Netflix and playing on my phone. Most of us do. And management won’t do anything about it.

I’m willing to bet the person who trolls this site all day is a white male agent. He claims to be a retiree but I think that’s bullsh-t. The only people who would sit on their ar-e all day responding to themselves are agents, their staff or someone bitter about losing their position. Any takers?

They already control your freedom of speech. You are nothing to them.

I think they should require all employees to wear heart rate monitors too, so that they can monitor our stress levels too. Would probably help improve productivity.

And adding to the above, let’s cut pay 50% and have the women go topless.