Allowing associates to work from home - 1-2 days a week! Very nice move! Thank you!
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Thanks for the link. It certainly explains why the management of a company seeking to be part of the program would be so adamant about WFW/RTO. Employees may start to wonder if that rigid position is based on management's sincere belief that WFW increases collaboration/teamwork/whatever or the investment in NJ commercial real estate that the program requires.
There's a lot of other good information in the link, but this thread is specifically about WFH/WFW policies.
https://www.njeda.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FAQ-V1.pdf
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Not true with SMEs able to work from home. Management has sent the word down that “butts in seats” are required; there is desk sharing, scheduled days. If you need to come in one day, rather than your scheduled day you have to switch with someone so a “bu-t” is in a seat.
Make up R&R time in office to offset WFH? That's hilarious. Already d-mb that it counted against utilization.
Another check in the 'Reasons I'm Glad I Left' column.
50% for the month. If the month starts or stops in the middle of the week, you may need to account for that.
So in a team meeting the other day my manager brought up the "being in the office 3 days per week"...no surprises there, but the next comment about "making up your in office time if you on R&R". So, if you take this week off for R&R, you need to make those 3 days up being in the office sometime during the month.
Seems that every time I think "that's the most asinine thing I've seen/heard" this group tops it
As mentioned in this tread flexibility in where one works is now a given NOT a perk.
From Grant Thornton tax firm research:
Nearly 57 million people have quit jobs during the so-called Great Resignation in search of something better.
Some of the top findings:
Four in 10 job switchers received pay raises of 10% or more. Of that group, 13% said they got salary increases of 20% or more. More broadly, U.S. hourly pay has risen 5.6% in the past year to mark the fastest increase since the early 1980s.
Two-thirds of job switchers had two job offers or more.
One in five workers changed jobs last year.
Nearly 30% of employees are now looking for new jobs.
51% of employees would be willing to switch jobs.
80% of workers said flexibility such as remote work was a priority.
25% of workers — up from 15% a year earlier — said “they ideally would never work on site.”
Just 38% of workers were looking forward to returning to the office.
21% of workers turned down job offers from companies whose “values” did not “align with their personal beliefs.”
34% of job hoppers took jobs that offered a better balance between work and personal life.
“Flexibility in where you work, and sometimes when you work, is no longer viewed as an extra benefit,” said Angela Nalwa, a managing director and HR Transformation practice leader at Grant Thornton.
where is everyone getting this information?
Sapience is used in some companies….BUT it is used to enhance productivity of phone reps mostly. Here it was rolled out to everyone. It can’t increase productivity of IT. And it isn’t widely used in major companies. Most companies don’t have a trust issue like we do
@ohu+1g8yzSGm you're delusional.
These comments aren't "trolls" its what everyone thinks and knows, we just don't have to pretend to kiss @$$ here.
The communication email was so poorly written that people had to infer that working from home was allowed. They tried hiding it in the middle of a paragraph for some reason.
Goes both ways. The truly bad things about the company are pointed out on these forums, like Sapience, and YOU reply with "All S&P 500 companies do it" as if that makes it OK.
Amazing the trolls who show up here to try and badmouth our great company…. We could give out gold bars and someone would come here and say “every company gives out gold bars, that is nothing”. Talk about pathetic!
How are they enforcing this? I thought they stopped monitoring badge swipes recently. Are they back at it again?
What a joke.
1-2 days a week? That's pathetic. Some people will think this is some amazing reward and privilege but it's just a standard part of working in this day and age.. Would you be excited if your company gave you your paychecks, 401k, and PTOs? You shouldn't because those are very basic things. The fact that they label it as a "perk" is just insulting everyone's intelligence.
I was originally WFH so I'm not impressed.
If your are an sme you can work from home.
wish If I could give @wsy post a million stars, 100 percent dead on the situation we are is too far gone to fix with this gesture. Hybrid while good to have still requires relocation.
An announcement went out in March. Stated that associates are expected to come into the office the “majority” which means 3 days.
Ask your manager if they don’t respond tell HR.
So is this coming in a official announcement. Or is it all hush hush which some managers fail to tell their employees
So exasperated. What did it take to get to this point? The mass exodus of talent? Or, was this the plan all along? Let's take away WFH, force moves to hubs, and spy on responsuble adults. Someone had the bright idea to gut the company of talent and knowledge to save a few bucks. There is no credit where credit is due. The company is putting a smiley face band-aid on a wound that requires a tourniquet.
Give credit where credit is due, don’t get the peas or carrots thing…
Flexible. Like asking my toddler which one she wants, carrots or peas.