Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

my guess is they needed the extra 2 weeks because they are about to announce a vaccine mandate and it will give them the appropriate time frame for folks to get double jabbed.

Here in the Premiership League, if you keep making unforced errors and scoring own goals time after time, you are bound to be relegated at the end of the season with your coach and his staff fired.

Frankly, the leadership of this company is beyond being incompetent. This embarrassment is becoming too much to bear.

@qsa+1cCUMf3F
You scare easy. Settle down.

@rio+1cCUMf3F - The "neighborhood" approach is likely to make this even more prevalent across the company. From a BCP perspective, it would probably be smarter to have people from the same group scattered around different buildings and floors. But then that would be too similar to working from home, so probably not an option that leaders considered, since we supposedly all have to collaborate face-to-face to get any benefit. D-mb as--s!

OP has the best quote of the day... "Chinese water torture of micro RTO delays." How accurate!!

from a NYTimes article today

Is it safe to work in an office?
The answer depends on the precautions your workplace has taken. Does the company require proof of vaccination to come into the office? Are unvaccinated people tested regularly? What percentage of people in the office are unvaccinated? What steps did your company take to improve indoor air quality? (Upgrading the filters in ventilation systems and adding stand-alone HEPA air cleaners are two simple steps that can reduce viral particles in the air.)

Offices that mandate vaccination will be safer, but vaccination rates need to exceed 90 percent. Even an 85-percent vaccination rate is not enough, Dr. Jha said. “It’s not going to work because one of those 15-percent unvaccinated is going to cause an outbreak for every single person in that room,” he said. “You do not want a bunch of unvaccinated people running around your offices.”

The World Health Organization is monitoring a new coronavirus variant called “mu,” which the agency says has mutations that have the potential to evade immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination. (From CNBC article)

Yikes!

OP is spot on about BCP. We are in deep discussions right now because 2 key members of our ops team have COVlD and one is on a ventilator. We're realizing that early RTO could cripple key areas. We were vocal before, but really concerned now. I understand WF wants employees to be miserable and quit, but this is ridiculous and a sign of awful mgt.

Health care workers are at the breaking pint because of all the ant-bad mularkey. Sad thing is they are cutting their throat because when they break, and it’s sooner than you think, it is they who will suffer most from the lack of health care to go around.

How do I know. I have a spouse in health care and have experienced their struggles with them the last 18 months.

Just stop following yourselves. You only look like id--ts.

“Better to be thought an id--t than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” I think Mr. Twain had something there.

@qwb+1cCUMf3F - This is complete bu-----t!

Agreed. If management has no confidence in or ability to motivate/engage their employees remotely, the issue is (obviously) bigger than RTO.

Please stop with vaccinated/non-vaccinated rhetoric. The issue is within leadership not even covid.

Yet another sign of a lack of understanding. Wells wants people in the office as there is more production and therefore a faster track to recovery and all other business successes. For those of you who believe the propaganda that we were just as productive outside of the office as in, that is not true. Some people are, but they are the exception. On average throughout the company production is down. Actually look at the numbers published over our recent quarterly reviews. Factor in economic conditions and we are not performing at an acceptable level.
Many companies are struggling with the RTO strategy as the environment is not stable. So you cannot create stable planning around it. Go deeper than the obvious if you want your opinions valued.
Everyone has opportunity for the vaccine now. We should RTO and get moving back to what our new normal will be. The reason for the instability in our world now is the non-vaxxers. Let's all get back to work and things will take care of themselves.

@mnp+1cCUMf3F

The OP makes a very valid point, why bring people back to the office right now who are vital to the operations of this company. No matter your opinion on COVID, it can easily wipe out an office floor in a matter of days. It just doesn't make good business sense.

Pushing back a RTO start date 2 weeks, when we ALL know they're going to extend it again is pretty asinine. They're sending a clear message and insulting their workforce.

@mnp

The difference is that many companies have gone permanent remote for jobs that work for that.

Wells wants people back so that they quit from fear of death or serious illness.

Stop carrying water for Wells. No one above you knows you exist, let alone cares about you.

SOLUTION: JUST MOVE IT TO SPRING 2022. SOLVED!!!!

while not a wf issue, the way they handle it is.

Give it a break. Every large company in the world is grappling with how get people back to work without ki----g them. It will probably keep going until the pandemic turns into an endemic in early 2022. I'd hardly describe it as a WF issue. We just need more people to either get vaccinated or catch it and become naturally immune.