I normally work in a call center but take calls from home now. Do they intend to have everyone back in the office after COVID?
Also, I was just put in a training group for “new hires” which makes me think they are less likely to lay off in our department.
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The Bank has actually seen increase in profits in some work from home positions, during COVID, like bank branch workers. It’s cheaper and more efficient to have certain roles remain WFH, and the Bank will make WFH decisions accordingly.
I have been WFH for 5 years. I’m in mortgage. We’ve not been told our wfh status will change.
Medical professionals are doctors and nurses who actually are working with COVID patients. They might actually know something.
Don’t believe the id–tic things the press tell you, especially ones with an agenda.
The current white house resident's own people are saying front line people will get the vaccines first, of course,
The rest of us staring in Q2 andQ3.
As of this morning on the Sunday shows.
And some of us live in Phoenix, in Q2 and Q3 it's over 100 degrees here, we do not have massive refridgeration available for temps that low, and neither does your town.
This is 20 years of tech experience talking: If Slaoui says it’s going to be May, best case, Fauci is saying July is more likely due to vaccine compliance, and the CDC/FDA is saying they still have decisions to make, my money is on the more conservative estimate. There are still a lot of ways this can all go sideways. Most of them nontechnical in nature. Most technical problems are nontechnical in nature.
@aak+187VshKJ there are avenues being pursued right now to reduce call centers. Check out Nuance technologies and other customer automated systems. B of A already has ERICA in place. WF won't be far behind.
@1jsa+187VshKJ not sure where you are getting your information, nor whom you classify as 'medical professionals', but it's been widely accepted that vaccines will be available for high-risk groups starting in December, and everyone else that wants one can have one by May. Your delusions do not change reality.
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Refrigeration is probably even going to get to your backwoods town in the next few months. Enjoy your vaccine, I will enjoy mine. It was beautiful to see a modern Manhattan Project to get government, military and great science together to put together 3 great vaccines 4 years ahead of the best projections.
This is a thing of beauty for the U.S. and the world. God bless our leadership.
A dose of reality to anyone talking vaccine.
Two of the vaccines have to be stored at below zero temperatures. So only places with those facilities can do that and the others will need the infrastructure. Then you have to give well over 300 million people two injections 28 days apart. CVS isn’t everywhere, what about rural areas?
Before a vaccine can happen, it needs to be approved. Did they cover enough people with pre existing conditions, auto immune disorders, pregnancy, enough variety in ages, etc. If not, more trials or limited distribution until they do.
Medical professionals say the most optimistic time frame to get enough people vaccinated to get back to somewhat normal is late 2021 at the earliest. So don’t get excited yet.
I visit this website for the covid vaccine information.
I suppose the CDC or The Lancet or the New England Journal of Medice are probably 1000% better sites, but I like to get my medical and science information from internet randos who get their information from people with "alternative facts".
@1gav That’s c-ap and you know it. Or maybe you don’t if you believe state TV.
Vaccines starting on December 11, 2020
Hired as WFH over 12 years ago.
They said in IT we're all going to be in an office for at least three days a week prior to the pandemic. Saul wants people "rubbing elbows".
The people I work with are scattered all over the globe, so I don't think Saul knows what everyone does for a living here.
Now they keep pushing that out, while other companies, including big name tech firms (like the ones Saul says we should imitate) have told thousands of workers to WFH permanently.
The COVID is driving the bus right now, we'll see what happens in fall of 2021, but I'm not going to an office.
Not have a commute and exepenses lile mileage on the car, dry cleaning, lunches, is the only good thing about working for this mega-mis-managed crime syndicate these days.
If you actually work here you’d know wfh has been extended to 2/1/20 as of the latest Corp communication. Read your email once in awhile..
I find the agile collaboration thing funny because no one on my agile team works where I do and I am in a hub. So that excuse is a load of steaming excrement.
Our manager said we'd be back in the office in Q2. I don't know if that means the beginning or the end of the quarter. A while back they said it would be Feb, but it sounds like they pushed that out a couple months.
Lot of people in our group were WFH before COVID. We were told that all WFH agreements were now void, and everyone will have to work from an office. Reason given was "agile collaboration" whatever that means.
Exeptions would be rare and involve an escalation process with approval from somebody 1 or 2 levels down from Charlie. They told us as a practical matter that there simply wouldn't be any exeptions.
If I have to go back to the office they can stick it where the sun don’t shine because I am disabled and have an accommodation agreement.
Every news source I have seen says Q2 is the best case scenario. I am not sure anything in the first response is factually true but the first two lines are not. Pretty much any expert quoted on the subject has mentioned various logistical challenges with getting approved and rolled out to the general public in that kind of timeframe. The 20 year old contract that you think you know about almost certainly does not include “and you must roll out injections for the entire country within a month of FDA approval, otherwise the money is gone! Gone! Muahahahana!” I’m out of here, I am not going to argue over an amorphous impractical contract you have produced no evidence of, which has contract stipulations straight out of Scooby Doo.
The military will be assisting with distribution of the vaccine; the 3 companies creating it, were already contracted by the Federal Government long time ago to produce vaccines based on 18 month turnaround for any virus that may arise. They can either get it produced it based on the urgency of COVID or lose all that money the Federal Government payed them
What do you think they will do?
I disagree that we'll be back by end of 1Q. As noted, they won't announce anything until February 1 at the earliest, which does not leave enough time to phase everyone who previously worked in an office, back into the office by March 31. While progress on vaccines is great, it remains to be seen how smoothly distribution will go. What % of the pop will need to be vaccinated, before it's considered safe? Also, since it's a 2-shot vac with ~ one-month wait for #2, I'm assuming you'll need both shots before you're considered vaccinated. My guess is May or June, but who knows.
I have worked from home since 2010.
Currently CSBB is to remain WFH until at least Feb 1 (announced via email this week).
If you're in Charlotte or San Antonio my money says you're fine. Any of the other contact centers are not really in "centralized" locations.
Personally, I think we should take a page from the other industry play books and work for a long term solution. Especially non-phone channels (like email, chat, watch, etc) really have no reason to be in a building.
WFH like I have been for years.
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Operation: Dry Layoff back in place
I don't think we're back in the office until next spring, 2021 if even then.
Vaccine starts distribution December/January; everyone will be back to the office by end of Q1, vaccine is available in mass from 3 different companies. This contract was already in place a 20 years ago through the Federal Government, so nothing is new, nor is Covid.
These dates were on news all week this week. Looks like work from home will soon be over.