Thread regarding BD (Becton Dickinson & Co.) layoffs

@OP tp is long over due to be fired. His general lack of a coherent business plan, support for destructive pro DEI non merit bases policies, continued push to hire and move critical roles to an inefficient and incompetent offshore R&D organization and appointing leadership who's greatest accomplishment is creating more bureaucracy then the federal government.

To the company plant who replied below. Let me tell you what is happening when associates are working from. Please read, understand and report back to your overlords with the facts.

Myself and all of my team and colleagues are routinely taking teams calls beginning at 7:00 am to accommodate EMEA and India time zones. We rarely take lunches because associates in other time zones schedule meetings at midday ignoring our lunch hour. Most days someone schedule meetings at 5:00 and 6:00PM. We routinely put in 11–12-hour days and are more productive working from home.
This is what we intend to do on January 2nd. We will be commuting from 7 am – 9 am and will no longer take the early morning calls. Since it has been said to us, we must be in the office for better collaboration, taking the calls over our cell phone while driving isn’t an option.

I’ll be damn sure that I go down to the cafeteria to purchase some food and have a nice leisurely lunch. I’ll log off religiously at 5:00pm so I can sit in traffic and won’t be joining meetings. And when needed to join at any time during the evening, I’ll politely decline and spend time with my family enjoying that fabled work-life balance that T.P. and BD like to mention but never allow.

Finally, be sure to report back that morale is at an all-time low and will be much lower after January 1st.

As someone that has always been in office, I think everyone should be in office. Nothing is more annoying than having to adjust my office hours to accommodate those that can't seem to be available during the normal work hours cause they are running errands or picking up kids etc. It doubt those working from home are putting in their full work day. Meanwhile those in the office are having to meet late in the day after work hours or over their lunch.

Employees need to stick together and let management know we won’t be coming in 4 days a week!

Is this a company wide rule like Amazon?

What an absolute joke. So happy to not be at BD anymore.

Where else do you think TP can find money to pay for the $1 billion settlement for the Hernia lawsuits…something they were made aware of when negotiating to purchase CR Bard.

This has nothing to do with collaboration or creating a better workforce. It has everything to do with control and having empty real estate. How collaborative and efficient is sitting hours in traffic to sit at your desk in some office to hold meetings over teams with your coworkers offshore? BD has lost its cognitive thinking along with its soul! This is plain unproductive stupidity.