WHY is the RTO policy only enforced to certain teams in a location? My boss, who lives in another state, has three employees on his team at my location but only 2 of us are being asked to RTO 3x a week. The one person that is not required to RTO actually lives less than a MILE from the datacenter too! Other departments in same location only have to RTO 1x every OTHER week and another team is fully remote! My team is comprised of TWO people and the other teams I spoke of have 10+ members. Rules for thee but not for them!!! Just wish they would have ONE rule for everyone!
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If you're more than 60 mins from an office is such a lie, it doesn't mean you get an exception. It means you're automatically on the layoff list regardless of your contributions. If you're still WFH at this point your days are numbered.
For those like me who were forced to return to the office in September 2021. My desk at home is bigger than the one I get to use at the office. My internet at home is faster too.
@1rcl+1hWd950i, WELL SAID!!!
Thank you for stating this so eloquently!!
RTO, vaccines and the "site strategy" aka FB Ivory Tower of Innovation are three specific examples of a senior leadership team who managed to abuse, confuse and continue to push tone deaf policies on the nameless, faceless masses. The lack of thought, clarity, honesty and just basic communication or change management around these three highly impactful initiatives and the residual business and people damage left behind is shameful and points to an executive suite made up only of dysfunctional order taking and reaction. The variations on a theme, reversals and exceptions prove out there is a serious gap in sound decision making and execution. The MC members are quick to rush to implement directives to curry favor with the king and are shamed when they delay. Other than the restoration of 401k matching post pandemic reactions, which is so often cited here as an example of positive people initiatives (it was restored folks, not instated...ge-z)...there has not been a single policy implemented in the FB era which has NOT shown a total disregard for the people doing the work. The new and improved MC talking points of "the future is so bright" and "stop talking about the pain and realities of the after effects", is even more off-putting. It's not putting lipstick on a pig even, it's trying to gold plate a tu-d. There were at least six iterations of how to draw the circles around associates addresses to force them into office locations from remote status...or RTO...and each iteration got more punitive to focus on maximizing butts in seats...solving for a single metric...not any business context. People are grudgingly forced to sit in a Fiserv office location populated mainly by folks from other non-directly related BUs--which doesn't foster collaboration, only resentment--but "saved" that person from a forced march to Berkeley Heights, or more likely out of the company. All teams are forced to manage to the dashboard and push down the % of the offensive "remote" associate--no other nuance comes into play, like business need, business continuity or logic. But, hey, Clover! Right?
Please kind sir that mentioned 60 minutes, where do you hear that? It takes me more than that and I’d like to quote the 60 minute policy in my full time remote request.
Unless more then 60 min from an office.
Great question - you should ask him. Policy is be in the office the majority - meaning 3 out of 5.