With companies offering more buyouts and SF associates currently WFH; this would be a good time to close all non-hub locations. For associates still needed allow them to WFH for others give them a severance package.
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uhhq - Its starts at home!! Apparently your parents had no degrees or designations.
All the people who had the CPCUs and CLUs left so no surprise there.
Its real easy to produce results when your team apparently is doing nothing when they started. Maybe that is why SF will be #2 or #3 next year.
Good Luck.
Boomers want you to believe millennials are lazy. The only people with CPCUs and college degrees on my team are millennials. The 50 year old guy we have just got his bachelors online. The 60 year old woman is lazy, entitled and after 7 years still can’t figure her job out. The fresh-out-of-college kids just got promotions before COVID because they were kicking a–. Yet “this” generation is entitled, lazy, doesn’t have any work ethic. I, and literally every other millenial,remember how my parents had to have me, as a teenager, teach them how to use basic electronic devices. Now boomers are the generation keeping Facebook afloat while ironically also pushing the QAnon fake news conspiracy cult. So if you want to talk about my generation perhaps you should consider all variables and unique qualities we’ve experienced that your generation didn’t. Growing up during the 60s and 70s with the nuclear family unit in tact, white privilege unquestioned, nothing changing. Yeah, you had it good alright.
People do not have the work ethics as they used to. This starts at home. They want to show up and expect to be the VP of the company in no time.
The problem is the way we taught our kids. Everyone expects a trophy or a prize if they are on a team, even if they don't contribute to the results of the win. Parents do not know how to say "No" to their kids since its easier to just to give it to them instead of having the conversation.
So you are asking why are we bringing this up. That is why this generation needs to be managed in a different way from the old days. They are not accountable and responsible.
Newbies - Grow up and take some responsibility. If you would get your work done we would be fine.
I work in a non-hub location (Murfreesboro) and I wish they would do this. I’m within a few hours of Atlanta, and my family’s goal is to move farther from where we are now (which would be even closer to Atlanta). I would have no problems with WFH and even occasionally driving to ATL if I needed to be in-office. I worry constantly that they’re going to close my office, even though we are constantly hiring.
Doesn't make sense not to allow people to WFH when it's working out well and the offices were already crowded why re-open?
It's just a matter of time before more people test positive for COVID-19 if they try to re-open. Are you willing to get COVID-19 and maybe have serious complications or even die from it for State Farm?
Perhaps when the leases end in those hubs everyone there will be WFH?
There are a lot of married couples at State Farm because a lot of couples met at State Farm. It’s been a big, long term workplace for generations.
Won't happen. Don't dwell on it.
10 years or longer. Let em all go. Especially those married working together in the company and all relatives. Cronyism will go away.