I've had to pick up the work of two other people who left within a few months of each other. It was supposed to be temporary, but here we are over a year later, and still no replacements. Before somebody points out the obvious, I know this is my fault. I'm wondering how many others got suckered into doubling or tripling their workload like this.
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Tough to answer objectively since I've changed jobs multiple times here. Compared to the first job (call center) I work a lot less, but I handle much more important things with far greater impact.
Less, because of RTO. I can work, or I can drive / get distracted in a building full of people I don't work with.
More tasks and general nonsense from folks who left, yes. Nauseatingly more.
But more work? As in value-add activities that benefit customers and/or shareholders? Zero increase ==> none before, none now. I reside in one of the numerous grey space groups, floating in the fog between operations, risk and compliance. There's a line of demarcation in the group; everyone below it is stepping through processes and procedures handed down and patched by nameless waves that preceded them or by some consultancy, such that they no longer know why they do them, but do them they must. While everyone above the line is essentially engaged in justifying the group's existence in the current org structure or assumed, upcoming reorg.
So busy-ness has definitely increased, urgency increasing and tempers shortening every day. But is any of it true work? ---absolutely none of it.
ZERO - I quit one year ago and have zero regrets.
I am doing less work than I did before Agile. They eliminated many tasks - some were necessary tasks. They also hired new Agile resources and moved some tasks to them. The company hasn't saved money because they're still paying the traditional workers and they added a bunch of Agile experts.
Hopefully you are traveling around the world with your work laptop on business related travel. It is against corporate policy to leave the US with your work laptop without permission.
They can and do track your location. Before it gets to your manager, multiple teams, including HR, Legal, ICS will be having meetings over this and evidence gathered for a while before they lower the hammer.
And you'll be looking for new employment without severance.
Things in ICS are mint.. less than 5 hours a week.
For all those still employed and hardly working, enjoy the nice break while it lasts. when the economic pendulum swings back in the other direction, you’ll be busy, again.
What’s even better, for those of us who live in obscure locations and RTO is not feasible, go travel around the world.
I am in mortgage.. I am doing about 2 hrs per week.. thats right 2 not 20, 2... mmm rethinking... on a good week, maybe 4
First, I’ve been with the company for multiple decades. I began with a self-employed type mentality. To my surprise, I discovered most of my colleagues were there just to collect their biweekly paychecks, and do no more than was required of them. To that point, it was easy for me to excel with my diverse skill set. I became a star employee as I was doing more not just for my own department, but other departments within the company. It was fun at first. Didn’t realize the company provided token awards and annual vacations to those star employees, too. Nice incentives. Needless to say, the big wigs took notice of my skills and moved me to where they were located. I soon became a national star employee up until the Wachovia merger And the fake account scandals story broke. This is where my career at WF peaked. The current leaders began leaving the company. I got moved around. Policies changed. DEI took front and center. I got to thinking that I’m not leaving the company. I’ll just wait them out. Hardly anybody knows me now. Projects I was involved in are now deemed unimportant by new leadership. These days I’m lucky to be given one hour of work to do per week. I decided that I’ll continue my fat biweekly paychecks and huge annual bonuses while postponing the Inevitable. I’m somewhere Between being quietly fired and quietly quitting. You ask, am I miserable? No. I’m traveling around the world with my work laptop. I’m now living the good life. Just waiting for when work realizes they need me, again. What’s funny (or sad) is that I have to keep reminding myself that I still work for this company. Direct deposit makes you forget as opposed to the physical paycheck that needs to be deposited. Know what I mean?
So, you ask why I don’t apply for other positions within the company? Why? I already know what I like to do, but not interested in going through the interview process, again. The company can come find me. As a matter of fact, they do have several decades of manager reviews about me. Not to mention, free vacation awards and enough token awards to fill a wall.
Maybe 15 hours a week
More, a lot more. We have been re-org'd several times. We have roughly a person a week quit. There are huge gaps. We just do the best we can.
The same here. We are in the same boat. Shorthanded for a couple of years.
It happened to me. People were let go, others quit. The load was tremendous. Then some replacements were finally hired, at much higher salaries. A manager was hired who had never done the job. I left. This was in commercial banking. It was awful.
My team keeps losing people, a third were let go, several more quit, so all the work was distributed among us, so we have quite a bit more work. We learned in the past couple weeks that a portion of our job, which includes approval and credible challenge, requiring experience and process and policy knowledge, will be moved off shore.
Same here. After two re-orgs in the past two years, the org is barely functional, but we have great metrics - doing more with less. My manager will do anything and commit to anything with the goal of looking proper in the eyes of our clueless leadership. It's a great show when you sit back and watch tech implode all while doing it in Agile fashion.
I’m actually doing less. My manager quiet fired me a while ago.