Why waste hours of our lives in LA traffic? Why make everything more expensive for us? Why drain people of their time and energy just to tick some box? It won’t make us better performers. It won’t make us more creative, harder working, or more efficient. If anything, the quality of work will drop. Exhausted and demoralized people are the worst employees you could possibly have. Is that really what they want to achieve?
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@kj 100%
@f4 if they reneg on the RTO I'm pretty sure some folks who opted in would have a viable lawsuit. Makes the email from DE false and misleading. Not a lawyer but have spoken to 2 different ones regarding the opt in.
@f4 This is what I'm hoping for as well, which is why I have not opted in. I DO NOT plan on returning in January; I will be taking this time to search for another job and if I happen to get caught up in the November layoffs, I'll be looking forward to my severance, unemployment and LTIP. F-ck you, pay me.
The layoff numbers won’t be impacted by those who take severance. Severance is in addition to layoffs and have nothing to do with what happens in phase 2. Plus they will probably rehire to cover some important functions lost to severance. But none of that will probably happen until phase 2 and/or they figure out and
@f4 because they plan to do this, kind of. They are going to get their number by having people quit on their own terms. Then, they perform their layoffs in November. Now that they’ve got their figure, it’s highly unlikely they go hard on Phase 2.
I’m more interested in what their layoff strategy is in November. Do they target low performers, redundant roles, etc, combination of both?
@f4 it makes a ton of sense to me. this really seems like a way to get people to leave, not something they can actually commit to for long.
There’s no world in which this would happen….BUT putting out there in case the universe is listening. What if they are just weeding ppl out to make the layoffs slightly easier and then they drop this RTO or modify it to 3 days a week. Then they can release some real estate and work at getting any semblance of morale back. Just sayin it would be nice.
@bg Clearly you don't work for Paramount because your post is stupid. Why are you comparing Paramount to any other company? It's irrelevant. The fact is, we have been remote hybrid for years and have had a lot of success.
Guess what? There are people that work every holiday. As soon as you start doing so, in solidarity with them, I'll agree with your stance.
But you'd never even consider doing it. The line you've chosen to draw stops right at the point where you'd be inconvenienced. How coincidental.
"I never stopped going in."
So because you decided to be a foolish bootlicker, you think we should all follow along?
Idiocy.
Seriously? There are people at every company who have had to come in everyday due to nature of their job. They may make less money or be more educated and experienced than you. What gives you a special right to stay home and benefit from being at a company where others have to come in everyday? Good luck finding that new job where you continue to make the same paycheck but stay home. Thats not the direction things are going for almost any company unless you have some really rare skills.
@a4 So you either have no life or family or a bad boss and everyone should be happy because you go to office. Lol. Absolutely no reason to be sitting in an office 5 days a week. It’s a joke
I am so sick and tired of hearing people whine about having to go into an office. I never stopped going in. A hour commute if not more. Not even during the pandemic. I know this all su-ks. We are all afraid for our jobs. Just stop crying about having to go to the office.