Why are we still dragging ourselves in three days a week when nearly 80% of the workforce is fully remote anyway? Make it make sense. Moving it to 2 days would literally fix half the morale issues in one swing. Easy!
And can Chicago offices please get mandatory remote weeks during Taste of Chicago or other local gridlock "natural disasters"? Navigating downtown during major city events is a full-contact sport, and doing it just to sit on useless teamscalls in a cubicle is absurd.
I know people get pissy when employees come on here to vent, but where else are we supposed to go? The employee survey feels like a black hole where feedback goes to die. I’m putting this out here with the naive hope that someone in leadership actually reads it, gets it, and decides to care for once.
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@cb you do not want to work under Donna.
@14m You are misinformed. This remote grandparent works hard all day every day. Am I fortunate to work from home full time now? Yes. Am I working less because of it? No.
The remote grandparents have it easy. They "retire" to their countryside or kids towns and basically do no work and collect a paycheck. No need to retire now
Same situation - only one in my group to come in. Somehow it is very vital to the HR Gods and my horrible manager that i come in but my co worker attends meetings in her bathing suit and loudly tells us all so
@cb my situation exactly. Manger and other coworkers get to live anywhere and are fully remote yet I am still dragging in three times a week and no one will say why. Shameful management from top to bottom.
@gv "good will gesture" and it's literally slashing all bonuses for a large chunk of the company, makes sense
@cb Donna who?
@nr after Covid- prices at the cafe really went out of control. And the quality went out the window.
@h8 There is literally a supermarket next door to the office, nobody is making you buy the overpriced Flik cafeteria nonsense.
@hm never ate at the cafeteria at 300. Packed a lunch everyday.
@h8 no one had to eat at the cr-ppy and overpriced cafes. Pack a lunch.
@gv this is probably fair given the total cost the workers that have to commute in and eat at the cafe have to spend. I am ballparking it at around $10k per year
My whole team but me was sent home because my title was not eligible. Building closed and now I commute farther to sit in an empty floor. I don’t really get it honestly. Manager sent home as well because there was no close office to them. They don’t know why either.
@e4 one way to solve this issue is simply to reallocate all bonus money that would have gone to the people that now and have been working from home to the ones that are required to come in.
This serves to bridge the difference in the crazy gas prices we have had all year.
It would be a good will gesture from leadership to the workers
@df customer service. Provider relations. Network.
They could explain to everyone why certain groups can work remote that are not part of healthspring
Capa
IT
Project managers
Unfortunately the president couldn’t explained this. So how would directors explain this as they have to come into empty offices as well. Maybe it’s time to leave the company and have season talent elsewhere.
They took Donna back for a reason. All her team is remote. No one could tell me why directors and managers in the same team could work remote. It is so exhausting to travel a 1 1/2 hr to an empty building while I have coworkers that are now grandparents working at their children’s states homes to be there. While I’m commuting and get punished if I’m not in the empty building 3x a week. How is this fair? It’s just time to look work under Donna or another company,
@bj agreed. They WANT people to quit. They actively want work morale to su-k. Remember- do more with less. ( except the butt clowns- they need more money to do less work. )
You fail to understand. No one who could make these changes cares about morale improvements. In fact, just the opposite.
Every worker who voluntarily leaves is one less layoff, one less severance. Less going to us, more going to the c-suite.
Expect no improvements, ever. The best case scenario is that things don't get even worse.