Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

@a9 1 week in office is 17.5 hours of my week in a car 😡

We've been warning you people this was coming. This RTO thing wasn't a knee je-k reaction. It's been in planning for over a year.

What changed was realizing Corporate and ILOC needed too much work to use them. Corporate has some serious unfixable structural issues that will be a problem at some point down the road (10+ years but still). ILOC isn't even up to building code. Blessing in disguise that Amazon backed out of the deal to buy NPR buildings, I guess.

So they spent millions of our policyholder's dollars moving everyone and everything out of South only to, in a matter of months, reverse that decision and now spend even more millions of our policyholder's dollars to move everything back into South.

What a joke.

Rumor has it there is a Spirit Halloween sign hanging on the building already

Another evidence of the incompetence of the leadership. Before Tippy got caught in an affair with another exec and had to abruptly exit, he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on totally refurbishing Corp. Now, they decide to totally blow that and move back to the rat infested Corp South? What incompetent leadership.

Do you think 12th floor will move to Texas?

Bro, they have the surveys, they know no one wants this.

They understand fully this will uproot a lot of lives and cause a lot of talent to walk. They want this. They are looking to get rid of people, and are too cowardly to fire bad performers. This is an easy way to reduce workforce, and executives can still pretend to be legacy state farm that cared about its family, as they are not firing people.

This is what weak, incompetent, management looks like.

Hope they’re willing to work with the folks that moved. Management made it seem it was okay to move as long as you could make your in office days. But 50% we’ll be two much if your an hour or two hours from blm.

Yeah in office week deletes about 6hrs from my life per week, all for the benefit that i sit in an office alone taking calls for 7.75hrs a day.

I get higher ups like strutting around an office in a nice suit but why make your grunts suffer for that?

Id actually be excited for an in office day once a month where i can actually interact with my team and people.....but even when it was full time in office, there was no time to socialize...you are too strict on time efficiency for it.

I was only passively looking for new opportunities but with this its now time to apply and interview aggressively. 1/4 the pay of any other company and they want people classified as hybrid to come in office and waste time lol
I'm leaving without doing any handovers, no promotions since I joined and this is literally a slap in my face. Sc--w that.

Time to resign if they do it beyond corp south. I'm too underpaid as a hybrid employee to deliver value when they can't even give remote status.

@a4....spot on, i feel like an absolute id--t moving to a hub, had i just stayed where i was id be 100% remote no issue.

also its much more expensive, and the traffic su-ks at the hub.

Why are they so against having a happy workforce? I dont get it.

Yeah looks like they are realigning the bloomington offices, and hopefully it will only be that area doing more in office.

I think any more in office time and a LOT of people will start looking for 100% remote roles that are out there with competitors and brokerages. I certainly will.

Just more of the 100% tone deaf and out of touch with the workforce decisions from bloomington. Its a great idea to lose a % of the workers , executives seem to want nothing but AI and offshore people working under them.

But hey, this not only will keep their workforce unhappy which seems to be a priority, but also shoot themselves in the foot with staffing in the future.

the decline of SF carries on unabated

Amazing. And yet we have remote folks still getting promoted and wfh 100% of the time. It’s certainly feels a little deflating for those that uprooted their lives to be in a hub only to have the same opportunity but now spending dozens of hours a month travelling to and from the office.