https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/gm-delays-return-to-office-mandate-after-employee-backlash.html
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Bring back the Pontiac Aztek for "intangible benefits" even though the tangible drawbacks will include substantial financial losses to GM. See how "intangible" just doesn't work in a business setting ?
Coordinated move to push the narrative. GM as chosen as the lead to make it known, these f*cking corporations want their workers back inside their buildings. Covid hoax is over, it was only and event for something mroe. It was obvious.
Send the message, pull it. It wasn't backlash, it was a tell that others will follow. Our corporation is following suit. They took the bait, and pushed their bullsh-t the same week GM pushed out theirs.
Just like all these f*cking companies pushed you to work at home, to muzzle up in sync, to shoot up, to muzzle off, to back in the office on the same week or month, it's ALL one big coordinated effort among all companies. Ask yourself, who's the ring leader orchestrating this all.
If you haven't figured this nonsense out at all, then you are the joke. The largest scale mass coordination effort has taken place across the globe. Who the f*ck had the power to orchestrate it all - where all corporations, nations, and people, followed suit in lockstep. Bah, bah, goes the sheep.
This is an existential crisis for Mary. A consequential and a decisive response from GM salaried employees will result in GM becoming more of a pariah than it already is. Tangible benefits trump intangible benefits:
Environmental Impact
Bigger Talent Pool
Cost Savings
Save Time
Improved Co-worker and Manager Relationships
Higher Retention
Flexibility
Physical Health
Mental Health
Productivity
The floggings will continue until morale improves..
I had a 37 year career with GM, both in product and mfg engr, participating directly with many vehicle launches. So, I know from 1st hand experience. It’s hard to do any Red X project, separating “Bobs and Wows,” while working from my household desk.
"intangible benefits" means they can't be seen, measured, or tested... so why do you even think they exist?
How are things going to speed up if they still can't get parts to build cars?
@1npf+1iV1G7ow "Everyone knows"?
So prove it if it's something you know to be true
Launching products requires "hands-on-deck," from product engineering to manufacturing engineering. This is fundamental in the auto industry.
Everyone knows that face-to-face is far more effective than virtual. Not to say virtual doesn't have its advantages in certain circumstances.
Time to lace up the boots, make necessary adjustments to your personal situations, as the company needs to produce products. It's a business, like any other, at the end of the day. Know that many industries around the country have been back at the office for quite some time already. Time to return to the real world.
So General Motors effectively said they need more from its employees because things are going to speed up.
Dang, I hope they give the UAW janitors full pay and benefits to stay home.
Mary Barra is back on her heels. Organized dissent works! Now is the time to form a salaried union. Who is with me?
"intangible benefits" means "delusional belief in magic"
someone needs to tell them magic isn't real
“the intangible benefits of in person collaboration are going to be a critical success factor as we move into a period of rapid launches”
Engineering has been executing accelerated launches throughout the plandemic with great results. This improved “collaboration” that management imagines will take place in person is a stretch. I think management knows this, so it’s a little insulting to hear again and again that we aren’t already collaborating effectively.
“Intangible benefits” - you mean like spending a couple hours in traffic each day or not being able to concentrate with all of the noise present with open seating? There’s some disconnected thinking and poor planning going on here. I don’t think they can achieve the effective in-person office dynamic now that the office workers know a better life. Redefining “new normal” won’t cut it. People have rearranged their lifestyles. Come January, expect people to have bad attitudes as they come in from the cold snowy roads only to do the same work they were doing on laptops at home. What is the point?
Time to reduce the workforce, perfect receipe forcing peeps into the office. What a shame! They were proud of “appropriately” last year, now they see storm clouds ahead, economically