First they want us back in the office in the spirit of ‘collaboration’. Now the message is ‘ limit your time in shared spaces.’ Sit at your desk with your headset on, but you can’t just do that anywhere. SMH.
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Generally, across corporate America, I'd agree with that assessment, but WF is dumping buildings cheap and breaking leases waaaay to often for it to be seen as a CRE prop-up. Hudson Yards wants voluntary attrition the most.
Our location has a big “quiet zone “ sign and says please keep conversations and noise to a minimum.
So I guess we were too successful in building relationships, connections and now we must cease the collaboration immediately.
Can’t make this s-t up if I tried!
RTO is for one thing- to prop up commercial real estate. The banks customers are pushing back and saying they are taking losses because people aren’t in their buildings so the banks better get people in seats. Notice how they aren’t pushing sustainability anymore? Because the most sustainable thing is work from home.
The only purpose of an office in 2024 is to house a$$holes, and we're surprised there's a$$holes in them? Complete waste of time and money. Worst downsizing scheme ever.
The email could have said “when in the office don’t be an a@@hole”. Just be a considerate human being. It’s not hard to understand. It’s not some nefarious RTO plot, just be a nice courteous person. I know that’s hard for some.
@nzu+1rheLXQ9 More like this thread along with all the others as well as Wells on the whole are saturated with self-absorbed cucks who have to be re-educated on what it means to be a reasonable human.
Slags with your mindset think it’s your coworkers fault you’re poor at your job and are currently disgruntled so time to make their life difficult also. Meanwhile could be someone with no other choice who’s just trying to make that buck and survive, but FCK EM RITE?
I’d agree with this except why have the banks that are already at the “efficiency ratios” we’re trying to cut down to match also forced all of their people in?
I lean more toward the explanation that all the c-suite execs from our and other industries got together and decided “we need to collectively prop up CRE for now so that doesn’t all collapse at once.” A lot of them are likely personally invested in CRE dependent corporations and securities , after all, in addition to all the ways the companies they actually run are tied up in it.
Looks like we have a couple of RTO cucks in this thread.
You can hear their lips chapping on the rear ends of people that only look down on them.
Not in the office long enough to worry about limits on shared spaces or noise levels. FHY and FRTO.
Our area isn't on the core list, yet we've been told we may have to RTO also. Very conflicting information.
The time limit on Shared Spaces has been in place for awhile. Basically 2 hour limit in huddle rooms, focus rooms etc. People were basically claiming them as offices and sitting in there for 8 hours.
Nothing conflicting here. Be in the office, if using shared space (conf room, huddle rooms, office for private conversations) limit the time. Otherwise be in open space and be respectful of others around you.
Life isn’t that hard
Narratives tend to shift when you're lying and getting caught repeatedly.
RTO was designed, from Day 1, to drive voluntary attrition as its primary objective. In some specific buildings, there may be tax breaks as well, but WF has closed down many such buildings and terminated such agreements in the past, so that's more of a fringe benefit than anything else.