If your role permanently allows you to work from home, can you share what you do, salary range, what skills/ experience is required and if you foresee any changes to that in the future? WFH these last few months for calling center and avoiding a 1.5 hour commute this year is not motivating me to go back to the offices once this is all over.
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Operational risk is not allowing new telecommute agreements, unless that changed recently?
If you work anywhere under Saul good luck with telecommuting in the future or for any new roles.
Operational Risk and ET/Audit
Permanent WFH options in mortgage. Wide range of skill sets and salaries. Everything from entry level on up.
IT here
Pay s—s here, about 70% lower than other companies, even banks. Pretty cheap. This is only company i hav seen with tech that has never been updated. That is a good sign not to work in a place as they dont even put a little money into keeping their tech current. Only supporting obsolete c-ap.
Many of the workers are way beyond obsolete
Unhh... l log in and think and work my butt off for 10 hours on what I need to accomplish today and any spare minutes go to required training, resolving issues raised in emails and attempting to deflect “required” corporate initiatives hat wouldn’t even rise on my radar in any sane work day. Often I wake up in the middle of the night, log back on and resolve issues that percolate to the top of my subconscious as I try to sleep.
God help us with this hell on earth. Our CEO certainly sleeps well... soundly and peacefully with dreams of an ever compounding fortune, dancing in his head.
Yeah, seem to a few gaming the system. Read some of the posts from your teammates under incredible psychological stress from picking up for you. What team players.
: @1syy+188cMENi Sounds like a super short day, late to work and early to leave for a 9 to 4 and probably a long lunch as well. Like a bus to work doesn’t come an hour earlier and a bus from work doesn’t leave an hour later. You’re proud of gaming the system to avoid work and probably the first to complain about leadership.
Besides IT- what else do you all do ?
@auv, can't agree with you more. I WFH and have an excellent work ethic, work much longer than 40 hours a week to keep things going smoothly and I (usually) don't mind because I feel my compensation is fair, I have good colleagues and enjoy my work. However, if I get told to relocate and go into an office, I will be one of those that will no longer be available for 6am meetings nor 6pm meetings because I'll be in the office by 8:30 and leaving by 4:30. Oh, and taking a 60 min for lunch for colleagues and probably a couple 15 minute breaks. I never take a lunch or other "breaks" while WFH but that will certainly change and they will be in theory paying more for less output.
Another IT person here.
Yep. Worked in the office, been working from home for over 10 years. Gotta say, in the office, watching the clock. Gotta catch the bus you see. Can't be late, so no meetings after 4. Otherwise, the bus will leave me behind.
And, in the AM, can't be there before 9. Its when the bus drops me off.
Oh, wait, I have to drive my car? and pay 200 for ramp fees? Uh oh. Not sure that'll work. Besides, I'll still be leaving by 4 to beat the traffic. And, getting in by 8:45-ish, again depending on traffic.
Oh wait, feeling sick. Can't go. Gotta call in. Hmmmmm....doesn't sound like a really good deal for anyone after all does it? WFH, no one cares about traffic, can work while sick, can work without getting sick, and no bus schedules to cramp the schedule. I guess CHAINSAW CHARLIE - taking his helicopter ride to work every day from the Hamptons.....doesn't get it.
Just another opinion on this matter.....
IT person here.
I'd make a lot more money somewhere else. Banks give us all AVP titles instead of money, banks are known for low pay but job security and a title.
But I save money, and time commuting, by working from home 100%. And the commuting part is huge, If I had to add two hours to my day, that's time I'm not going to be working.
That would be a 20% increase in my time, with out a 20% increase in pay.
And most of us WFH folks work longer than 8 hours a day, I don't log out at one minute to 5 to beat traffice, or stop off at the coffee machine on my way to my desk and chat with Barbara from accounting for ten minutes.
I log in and go straight to work.
Sure, I can get my oil changed during working hours, but I'm putting in 50 or more a week, and sometimes much much more, so Wells wins overall, becuase I stay online until my work is done, not until my shift ends.
So if Wells wants to make me go to an office, they're going to need to up my compensation.
Otherwise the market will solve the problem when someone else hires me for more money.
And in the interest of transparency, oh yes I am looking for another job, not because WFH is ending sometime next year, but becaues the reason their ending work from home is really, really stupid.
I have been 100% WFH since I was hired two decades ago. It has been the ONE reason why I have stayed with WF.
That's a lot of gasoline I haven't had to pay for, A lot of parking fees I have not had to pay. A lot of work clothes that I have not had to buy. A lot of colds and flu's that I have not caught from sick colleagues. And a lot of hours where I have done productive work for WF instead of sitting in traffic. A lot of "tribal knowledge" that I have that has not walked out the door over the years.
WF wins, and I win too. It works.
But now? I won't go back into an office. No way. I'll just go dark and they can fire me when they eventually figure out that I'm not working anymore.
WFH people get paid about the same as someone in the office doing the same work.
WFH isn't a mystery, and a few thousand of us were hired as full time WFH.
I've been to the office maybe 5-6 times in the last 12 years or so, usually just to get a new laptop.
If you can work from home, I hope they let you stay there.
But working in an office has some benefits careerwise, though, more direct contact with your manager (I'm having some distance issues with mine right now) and there is something to be said about having your peers nearby to partner with, or whatever corpspeak is for cover for each other.
sorry to say but they're not offering FT telecommute here anymore. Those that have it will be asked to go to an office at some point in the future. CS and others are not fans.
Search “work from home” or “remote” in the job search. This will help you see roles Wells is looking to fill that will be remote. If I remember correctly, most will want you within a two hour drive of the main office.