Chainsaw is about as creative as a steaming pile of bull p-o
He tried the same tricks at Bank of NY when he short-timed over there.
A hatchet by any other color is still a hatchet. And what did not work there, he thinks we will put up with it here?
Let him try to force RTO - lawsuits are expensive for a corporation. It will be fun to see fed up employees all pile litigation on this company at the same time.
Maybe then he will take a hint.
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2019/03/07/BNY-Mellon-work-home-Charlie-Scharf-layoffs-England-email/stories/201903070119
Employees in England reportedly were so distressed over the matter that several were considering legal action, claiming that flexible working arrangements were part of their contracts.
One employee there slammed the move as a “massive step backward for diversity and inclusion, which hits our most vulnerable demographics including careers, working parents and those with mental health issues,” according to a story in the Evening Standard in London.
The financial services giant employed about 7,000 people in the Pittsburgh region as of Sept. 30, but has undergone layoffs since then. The company declined to provide an updated employment figure.
BNY Mellon, with some 51,000 employees worldwide as of year-end, will take the next several months to reconsider its approach to working at home, Mr. Scharf said in his email. In the meantime, employees can revert back to their previous flexible work schedules.
Mr. Scharf — formerly CEO at Visa Inc. who took the reins at BNY Mellon in July 2017 and has made cost-cutting one of his key focuses — had backed the decision to curtail working at home as a way to increase collaboration and enable quicker decision-making.
But some workers pointed out that as part of a global company, staffers routinely interacted with colleagues remotely.
“While we believe that it is enormously helpful to have as many people as possible physically together working collaboratively, we also realize that changes can affect personal lives in many ways,” Mr. Scharf said.
“To be clear, we did not intend to eliminate the ability to have remote working arrangements,” he said, noting that management’s “principles” hadn’t been communicated clearly enough, resulting in “inconsistent implementation across the company.”