Employees asking about RTO success shouldn’t be all “about the numbers” according to admin but beware you’ll face consequences for not meeting your office visit quota aka a number.
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Everything is ready to go.
They need to fix the tracker before they can enforce anything. It is up-to-date up through Feb 21st only. It's March 11. It is 2025. There is no reason this can't and shouldn't be real-time if they are making major business decisions on it.
Oh, and it has to be accurate. There are many on my team who have mentioned missing dates.
RTO to where??? There are HOW many offices in North America now?
Former NetApper checking in on the goings on. I'm sure I'll get downvoted, but, 2 days a week is wayyyy better then many other companies. At my current gig we have 3 days per week but how they count 3 days is a complicated as doing your taxes. We don't get graded on 3 days/week we get graded on weeks of compliance. 13 weeks/quarter and we need 11 compliant weeks/quarter. We have to declare our standard work schedule, which 3 days/week. If you are TWR and work remote MF you need to be in TWR even if something drives you in MF. For a day to count you need to be in 6 hours and they assume an hour lunch, so it's really 7, if you leave and take a longer lunch it's tracked. Those 7 hours need to be between certain hours but most of us have calls with EMEA and Cali multiple times per week so we have hours of calls outside office hours. If there's a holiday on a day in, it must be made up that week. If you take vacation or are sick that's a non-compliant week (although they're reasonable as long as you inform management), but it still counts against complaint weeks. So if you're sick a week and vacation a week, you better be compliant every other week that quarter. If life stops you from coming in 3 days so you have a non-compliant week you best come in because if they see you working from home it's a separate ding. Two quarters of non-compliance is termination for cause. We also have nanny software for monitoring work from home days. We do get emails once a quarter that declare x people got cut for non-compliance.
Net net 3 days/week is rally more like 3.75, and your days are just swiss cheese. We have quarterly sit downs with management where we review compliance trackers. They also track dozens of other metrics like emails, meetings, etc. I don't even know what to compare it to. The funniest thing is, so few functions are in any 1 office, and many people have remote work authorization for medical and other reasons, or they live outside the 40 mile ring. We only really have 1 real everyone in a conference room meeting every 2 months.
@rm+1jnpa8cb1 - so what? Then we're back to pre-covid. And?
Meh.. it starts with two times, then its 4, then 5. You sheeple.
Whoever asked that stupid question about the financial benchmark on RTO should just quit. If you cant come to the office twice a week you are full of cr-p. You missed the points, and again you missed the points by complaining on this board when the CAO gave you a perfect answer.
The majority of employees visit the office less than 21 times a quarter.
We were told the attendance is a combination of badge swipes and connecting to the corp network.
The bad part is NetApp has the upper hand. Job market still hasn’t recovered and finding a replacement job isn’t easy.
An attendance rate of less than 21 visits per quarter means you will be fired by the end of FY25.
While nobody is thrilled about RTO, 2x a week is still far better than pretty much everyone else I know who have to come in between 3-5 days where they work. Grass isn’t always greener.
They spent the whole hour talking about making and saving money, then when asked about financial benchmarks with other companies regarding being worth the cost to RTO on not, answer was, it’s not about the money. Two faced hypocrites.
NetApp are unable to collect door entry information at my site, but then they send me a dashboard showing that I've never attended said facility. Genius. Now I await the harsh stick for my obvious non-compliance. This seems bizarre. Maybe I should fix this issue by never coming into the office, that way at least the dashboard is correct.
They never answer the budget question. As someone outside the 25 mile radius my manager keeps saying there's no budget for RTO in our section. I bet I'm not the only one running into this. That probably has to do with why the compliance numbers went down.