Would A good compromise for RTO to give anyone onsite fo three Plus days to have their own workspace? We would get the informal collaboration within our team and eliminate to he-l of hotel desks.
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Returning to office is a sure fire way to speed up our return to the top.
A year or two ago, Farly said that Ford was way behind the competition when it came to Diversity.
Since then, we have worked diligently to add diversity throughout our ranks.
It is a proven scientific fact that more diverse teams make better decisions than less diverse teams. By returning all of us to the office, that diversity will begin to shine. Our diverse decisions will speed up our quality leadership and our overall competitiveness. The only way to do that is by being in the office together.
@7had+1r1cpp3P. The pathetic leadership is the problem. However, leadership would be less out of touch if they had more contact with employees. People complain about the FnF plan, but that is human nature. It is easy to dehumanize someone who is nothing more than a name on an IM or webex, and you never meet them face to face. In addition, an automobile is a physical product. Our customers experience them physically. The people developing these vehicles should experience them as they are intended to be used. They also should experience how they are built and maintained.
You seem to believe that the issues with this company are related to people not collaborating in person rather than the pathetic leadership and decision making of the upper echelon of this company
Seems like we have a solution to the housing crisis. Turn these office spaces into affordable housing
“RTO is the best corporate decision Ford has made in recent memory. It is our job to make Ford successful and collaborative behaviors in the office environment is a primary enabler. Don't be a roadblock.
Our metrics will show certain improvement later this year.”
This is just a planted comment from someone who is spouting the company line. Reminds me of planted town hall questions.
RTO is necessary because the management needs to be in a room with a bunch of angry employees. Sometimes that is the only way to keep a POS honest. And we have a large number of POS management.
@3gws+1r1cpp3P
You seam pretty certain about things that make no sense.
Read and learn from this most excellent post shi+1r1cpp3P
RTO is the best corporate decision Ford has made in recent memory. It is our job to make Ford successful and collaborative behaviors in the office environment is a primary enabler. Don't be a roadblock.
Our metrics will show certain improvement later this year.
My people person said that we will be transitioning back to dedicated cubes in April. Rollout will be at ATEO.
The irony here is hilarious.
This article explains the current hurricane facing commercial real estate in the U.S. right now. Ford has to show that they are “part of the team”, and get those offices occupied.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cre-crash-yes-thats-not-typo-it-literally-sold-9-sqft
COVID is still out there. It hasn’t gone away. They still report the deaths if you look for the reports. I guess that since the panic is no longer needed, everyone just wants to forget about it.
I suspect that “keeping us safe” was never really about keeping us safe.
@1paz+1r1cpp3P. Keep us safe from what?
With your logic, you should also be complaining about not being able to use a typewriter for writing your note.
They “sent us home” for our safety, they said. (Although many had been working remotely a few days a week for years before that.) Unlike all the other things they did to us “to keep us safe”, physical separation and not sharing indoor air with infected people was the most effective. It always works to avoid a contagion.
It’s clear that the vaccines don’t stop you from getting sick or spreading the bug. Masks are useless for anything more than just a brief exposure.
So my question is, why doesn’t management want to keep us safe any more? Have we become expendable?
"The only ones fighting RTO are the Slackers at Ford. They never do a day's work at home..." Lots of assumptions here. You know what they say when you assume. Sometimes you make an a** out of you and me.
I told my cube mate, “This doesn’t pass the smell test “ on Thur 3/12/20 when everyone was sent home by Dr. Fauci.
Not a single CEO questioned this insanity and there is no reason to feel sorry for them whatsoever.
I have no issue with RTO, just with the CEO’s whining about it.
If you want RTO, shut up and pay for it.
The only ones fighting RTO are the Slackers at Ford. They never do a day's work at home just as they never did a day's work in the office before.
You Sheep are Slackers and need to be fired.
For the Sheep that moved out of state, thinking you got away with it. You losers are going to soon be in shock because managers are about to tell you sheep to report to the office five days a week.
shi+1r1cpp3P - Spot On
rvs+1r1cpp3P - DownvoteTroll
People here are funny, and that's both sides of this fence. Both of yous should be doing what is best to progress forward the Ford+ transformation plan to the best of your abilities regardless of where. Model e must succeed or all will be lost with Ford's future in modern state of the art mobility.
Effort doesn't equal results. RTO doesn't necessarily address most of Fords current problems. Ford has had quality and cost issues for a lot longer than the remote work policy. RTO is primarily a knee jerk reaction to persistent problems combined with local, state, and federal government pushing it for economic reasons. It's basically the equivalent of a manager walking into a work space and calling everyone out because of one worker that's sc--wing around. The biggest problem at Ford is management - the lack of leadership. Constant reorganizations, creating jobs to protect the top-heavy management teams jobs, and Ford is so busy reacting to it's competitors they can't possibly chart their own course. The overzealous investment in EV's and significant scaling back of ICE products followed by the current full power reversal is a testament to that. That's absolutely a leadership problem and no one else's. Ford needs to get back to doing what it did when it became a company - lead the industry.
You won’t get your own assigned cube, you wanna know why? Because they couldn’t care less about you. Think about it. Let’s use the analogy of a farm. A humane farmer cares for their livestock, each cow gets its own pen, maybe even the farmer names the cow. Now let’s look at industrial farming: hundreds of cows, crammed into tight quarters, all sh----g on each other, one gets sick, a .22 the head fixes the problem, send them to the glue factory. You get it now? Anyone who believes they care is foolish. My hours will be counted after the badge swipe; when I was wfh they were not. You want to treat me like a child, I will act like one…
Can anyone clarify the verdict for employees that are remote out of Michigan my entire team is spread across the USA please be respectful in responding I’m just asking for clarity on what has already been communicated in that instance for remote workers
Ford will find as many companies have found that people simply don’t want to RTO and many don’t need to for the work they do. Forcing people to go into the office when it isn’t value added will always be seen as a negative. Clearly companies have their own agenda for wanting people to RTO. Most likely it is political or to reduce headcount. I’m simply not buying what they are trying to sell.
I see all the haters saying get back to work. You must be the UAW. You come here to tell us to get back or leave because someone else would do the job. Well how about you babies crying and going on strike wanting 40+% wage increases along with COLA etc. I wish they would have locked your as--s out and given those jobs to others that would be happy to have them. You are nothing but a bunch of primadonas that whine about putting bolts in fenders. Just because we have educations and can do a job from anywhere, if you want that go to school and change. But you won't because you want everything handed to you or you'll go on the picket line and pout until you get your way.
@fgm...you are wrong. Lots of offices were not converted to open space prior to covid. Some pilots were done but there has always been grumbling about it so complaints have always been there. Open office space rolled out in quantity after return from covid about a year or more later after 3 collaboration centers were completed and facilities were closed. LL4 sat in open spaces during the pilots but because of their position of authority they assumed conference areas or claimed specific spots even though the policy was schedule spots daily and no one assigned to a spot. Who lower than the ll4 is going to challenge them and risk ramifications later?
How about concierge service too?
Get back to work.
Shut up and get to work. There is no more negotiation on this, if you don’t like the conditions, get another job, there are others that are willing to do what you do at Ford.
I'm lucky, there's a nice, quiet lab that I can work out of. Haven't used a cube in ages, never been to a collab center.
@fgm+1r1cpp3P You can't assume average attendance like that when people are being told specific days to be in the office. With current requirements the office will be over capacity on Tuesday-Thursday.
Lots of offices were converted to open space layout prior to Covid. LL4 sat in open space too. Would this be the end of the RTO complaints if you are given the open office setup?
Why hoteling? Because many of you were already doing some 4-1 prior to Covid. You gave the facility business planner a 20% saving opportunity by doing so. This has always been your choice if you can see through the possible end outcome before you started the 4-1. A 3-2 with assigned seat implies a 40% spare capacity.
I agree. While I don’t want to RTO and find it unnecessary for what I do. It would be more palatable if I had my own cube with some walls so I could have an illusion of my own space with a monitor, keyboard, etc. What they have going now is awful and makes RTO even more painful.
Need assigned cubicle, monitor, keyboard, etc. I don't know why the leadership team thinks hoteling is a good model when everyone is being required to be onsite the same days.