Im tired of wasting so much time, money, and energy driving into the office for no benefit. It's such a struggle to find parking and then a desk, let alone nearby your team. And then its a noisy, chaotic environment thats difficult to focus in, but told this is somehow a more productive environment when it just isn't. This clearly isnt about collaboration or productivity or there would be better implementation and feedback routes. The current RTO model is implemented so poorly its doomed to fail, yet employees are paying for bad leadership. I'm tired of adding an extra work day to my week in commuting, only to make it harder to do my real job. RTO is a bubble waiting to burst and I wish it would happen soon so we can figure out a better way forward
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Our failings and massive warranty issues are due to our mind-numbing PD processes that do not contribute to engineering quality.
As for RTO, no one has given a reasonable explanation as to why we cannot have a dedicated desk.
Done at the end of the year or sooner.
RTO is so messed up. The upper management has blinders on and no clue what they are doing or what they should be doing.
I would like to know how collaboration between your team members works when you have no dedicated desks, no organizations in one spot, everyone not knowing where anyone else is sitting, and no place to leave your stuff and lock it up overnight.
They also go after people who have to be at suppliers and or plants who can't badge swipe, you know the people who are doing the real work.
Thank God I retired in 2022. I thought things were messed up then, but stuff is at least 10 times more messed up now with no help in sight. Sad
@fb ford beats traffic because paper defeats rock
Pre COVID was the same. Only back then parking was better and longer lunches were more common.
When the weather gets colder you’ll see people pushing the limits again. Heck, by 3pm the parking lot is pretty empty, no way are people working 8 hours in the office, they aren’t there by 7am either. Maybe they leave to beat traffic and work from home? I’ll optimistically think that.
@a3 Hopefully some wacked out trans nut takes you out soon.
@ab Farley's private jet pilot works on a plane and his personal driver works from a car every day. Why don't we make them work from a plant every day?
stop already, it is done, won't go back, deal with it
Fantastic insight. Not shallow at all.
I'm sure you extend your philosophy to people like police, firefighters, ambulance, hospital workers who have to work 24/7/265, right?
You just truck on in on Christmas Day because other people have to, because you certainly aren't a hypocrite. No chance that you've drawn the line just at the point where you'd be inconvenienced.
@ab You’re right. We should all have to stand up all day as well, since some plant people have to. And, we should all get UAW retirement packages, since people in the plant get them. And I suppose we should all be in the union, since that’s what the plant people have to do. And, and, we should have to wear PPE at our desks, since that’s what the plant people have to do. And since we can’t all not have our degrees, all of the plant people should have to get bachelors degrees to make things fair. We should all be the same, regardless of whether it makes sense or not.
Explain why there is a shortage of space when Ford has laid off 70% of its US work force according to the info on this site.
Oh, that’s right, no one on here works at Ford.
You are getting paid. Stop whining
@a3, I agree with you. Ford should be working 5 days a week in the offices. Plant people have to work 5 days a week at their plants.
@a3 you are a real Horses behind. I bet you are the poster child for that application.
The plan is working.
@OP, I hope they make it five days per week.