Are remote workers now subject to a negative PR bias?
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No doubt about it. Ford management wants the workers under their thumb and working at a desk. Productivity isn’t important, only appearances.
Management had 5 years to learn how to manage in a remote environment and they didn’t do squat. All the messaging about working differently and challenging your work habits apparently only applies to worker bees. Management is free to continue the outdated management style from the 50s.
Remember, RTO has nothing to do with efficiency or cost saving.
It’s has everything to do with showing solidarity with commercial real estate lenders, investors, landlords and governments.
@de+1jq7x2das just keep sticking your head in the sand!
@dd+1jq7x2das you’re trolling . That would make me be the only one going in while everyone else is remote
Yes. Badge swipes are now a measurable metric!
Don't believe me? Ask about it at the next skip-level.
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How does this make sense if your supervisor never makes you aware of this and you’re also on a global team making you the only one based in Michigan where everyone else is either in a different country or across the United States? You’d just be the only one going in for loneliness. Landlocked like laos
So the direction we got in ET, was that if people were hired in as remote during the pandemic, then that's fine, they can stay that way, but if you were at Ford before, or hired in the last 2 years, then the expectation is hybrid and 13 days / quarter in person in NA. This is tracked and reviewed all the way up to Mike Amend. The dashboard given to LL5+ doesn't have names on it, but HR absolutely emailed us with a list of people that were 'non compliant' in any quarter in 2024 and made it a requirement to have a documented 'short meeting' with those people. Additionally the direction was sent down verbally that the expectation is that people will get a 1 on their 'How' metric at the mid year if they have not achieved the required 13+ days onsite in the first two quarters of 2025
No negative bias at all. Just don't yell FO-E! the next time you conference call with your team or manager. You could always say you thought they asked you to rate your performance on a scale of 1 to 5 as a backup plan too if they asked "what's going on?".