Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

@b6 Shut your mouth Elfio or we will do it for you.

@b6 I am in my 50s but even I know that times must change.You are an id--t.

@bm Same. Manager and skip asked if I would consider RTO. I asked them to go pound sand as I was hired remote over a decade ago and do not see why that should change now. If it were not for the FU money and low expenses it would be a different story.

@b2 I know people whose commute is over an hour in one direction, sometimes it can be 1.5+ if traffic gets ugly. That's THREE HOURS commuting. FOR WHAT. It's manageable-ish with 3 days a week, mostly. 5 days a week would not be manageable.

The ONLY solution is to get into a position to not have to sell your time to a corporation for money. Salary slaves think they are free, but they are in debt and controlled by top execs.

I am rich by the grace of God, investing aggressively over the years, and discipline. And yes luck. All this RTO and cube stuff is just noise. I am free to walk anytime.

No other way folks

@b6 not even true. Most banks are not 4-5. Some areas are five days a week but not all.

Do any of the complainers out there read the news about every other bank that is 4-5 days a week in office?

Oh good I hope they are prepared to lose even more talent with this nonsense. People don’t want to commute to large cities from suburbs and definitely are looking for life balance which 5 days a week will not provide.

@ac Nobody said anything about flex seating going away. Flex seating was designed for short intervals for meetings or focus work, not for people to camp in day after day (which has been happening) because they don't want to sit at their desk.

@a9 got it!

@aa I find it hard to believe we won't still have some flex areas or open seating options. Isn't open seating needed for COLLABORATION???????????????????!!!!!!??!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!

@a7 Complaints about the costs of commuting, seating arrangements and coffee badging have led to a sort of monkey paw management style. Instead of reasonable solutions, the MC has addressed those squeaky wheels by pushing pay inequities, assigned seating and rigorous surveillance/micromanaging.

@a8 Yes, you have to sit in your assigned seat. It's assigned to you, you sit there. Flex Offices are not intended to be treated as personal offices or desk replacements.

@a7 No, I'm saying that the people who chose to pick a bone about assigned seating topic, instead of zipping it and focusing on the bigger issues because the rest of us knew what the result would be, should give themselves a big pat on the back for creating a catalyst to make everyone's lives that much more difficult. They gave the MC exactly what they needed to force full-time RTO and avoid fixing what actually needs their attention.

Do we have to sit in our assigned seat? Does this mean that flex spaces and flex seating are going away?

@OP not sure what you mean by congratulations complainers? Are you saying we should shut up and just take it all until they have stripped every thing that makes us autonomous salaried employees?

When will this start?

@a3 The hubs with seating to spare are the ones getting assignments. The ones without enough seating will rely on the reservation system until our wonderful MC gets to invest in more real estate holdings to accommodate everyone, yippie!

@a1 Emails sent to leaders yesterday.

@a2 Is this for sure?

Which hubs are being updated and how will this be enforced? My hub doesn't have enough people for assigned seating to matter

@a1 it’ll be on insideusb tomorrow. “Some, not all” facilities will be renovated/updated and “more to come in coming months”

Where was that announced? I haven't seen anything about assigned seating. Is it across the bank, or just certain hubs/orgs?