Come on Comcast!! Folks are more productive when they can work office closer to home rather than commuting. Shall we start submitting gas expenses. Put your badging system as one system
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@dt you sound very much entitled, which is not surprising when you have someone deliver Starbucks to your bedroom.
I understand what you are saying about RTO is the policy and thus it should be followed. The issues I have with that mandate are the following:
1) For me, personally, it was not the agreement I had when hired. I took this job because of the flexibility I was looking for and offered. Now that flexibility has been removed. I hear you saying, if you don't like it get another job, but you have to admit it is easier said than done. Maybe if this was before COIVD and AI, but the job market isn't what it used to be. And, there are benefits to tenure.
2) It isn't a fair practice to force some into an office X days a week while allowing others to be fully remote. Though I hate the idea (which Amazon implemented) of telling all workers, remote or otherwise, they have to report to their home office 5 days a week, and if they had moved during the COVID times, they need to move back, it is at least fair.
I just wish it would go back to pre COVID arrangements and not pre 1995.
@dt talking to people and being in meetings isn't a real job, the ones that do the actual work should focus on doing the work instead of commuting
COVID altered the reality of "Work" in a bad way! Get your butts back into the office, five days a week! Deal with people, situations, stress, f2f situations, commutes, meeting new people and solving problems on a white board. Life is NOT a flat screen in front of your face while you sip on your Starbucks whatever in your bedroom slippers.
@bq how else will you get to experience the Comcast CULTURE. I swear to god the only people who love this RTO cr-p are the b-ms with no social life of their own or they hate their family.
News flash - I'm here for a paycheck. The early 2000's office culture is dead but still so many "senior leaders" who think having an a** in a seat will make a difference. It won't - they are just driving away more talent.
@OP read up on The Rise of In-Office Remote Work. that's all i do . all day. every day. my manger sits close to me . and we teams meeting . 🤔
@OP if Comcast is enforcing a back to office 4 day mandatory, then everyone employee must be in office ! No more remote for some and not others!
There is nothing I hate more than having to go into the office for teams calls, teams meetings. Just sit at my desk with a podcast on and go home. Thats the "culture" and team work that we just HAVE to be in the office to get. Just lost another coworker because of 4 day in office enforcement. Lovely.
Including you, who "didn't care" your way right into posting?
@OP no one cares.
@bg why are some vps and seniors leaders remote? that's unfair . us peons have to go to office 4 days
@b0 You are missing the point. The 4 days per week has been the policy since 2022.
That they just enforced 2 days is a different story and poor management. I don’t understand why they now enforce only 3 days. People will calibrate to be in the office 3 of 5 days and later when they enforce the full policy (4 days/week) everyone will whine again. Go all in and say 4 is 4, period. Max 1 day from home per week.
The problem is weak leadership that can’t stand up for their own policy. That’s what’s causing all this friction.
They said 4 of 5 days in the office, but enforced only 2. So, some employees heard “2” because they will only enforce 2.
If the speed limit says 55 but the police only stops you if you drive faster than 70. Everyone will drive 69.
agree. but when leadership is remote and we all peons have to come to the office, its quite unfair. actually very unfair
@ay agree. but when leadership is remote and we all peons have to come to the office, its quite unfair. actually very unfair .
@ay bug off. the expectation was 2 days per week average, or else performance rating impacts. they decided to pull a fast one on everyone and switch to 3 audited days well past mid year, then claim more performance impacts on that. with no time to adjust or compensate for your annual tally. mess with people’s lives, mess with people’s expectations, mess with people’s performance ratings, mess with their job stability over modified expectations - expect negative impacts. the new update is fine for next year and beyond, not OK to apply in any way this year, magically, retroactively. hope someone with the risk appetite and financial padding can spin up the lawsuit this deserves. HR has intently avoided questions about it too. shame on leadership. they’re looking for easy ways out. and i didnt even touch on how they’ve fired people who work remote. comcast used to be a safe place to work, free from sadistic corporate overlords
Can you all just stop whining about RTO! How hard is it to understand that the company has a policy that we work in the office. Period. If you don’t like it, find another job. It can absolutely be debated if our policy is good or not or if a remote work policy would be better. But that debate is over for Comcast. The leadership has put down the foot and said clearly over and over again: 4 days per week in the office. There is a little flexibility built in for unforeseen events so we accept a little less (3 days on average).
Accept it or resign.