I met someone (director at Fidelity ) yesterday in Boston location who said FMR will soon announce 4 week return to office starting September. Not sure how true this is but they sounded very confident. They also said the HR and management is not concerned about offices overflowing.
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Ironic. The Investor Centers do not have enough office space and asking more of us to work from home. I need the office as I have many face to face meetings with clients.
This won’t be the ruling for every BU, as space is limited. Leadership will determine which BUs “benefit” from being in office full time and which don’t. Most sites will be 100% call centers.
Albuquerque, New Mexico could double their capacity. They shut down an entire half of the center 2 years ago.
You do know directors are just barely above senior managers right? The only site with enough capacity is covington. Westlake would probably probably be at max capacity. No other site has enough space for all 4 weeks.
Go back under your bridge
For the comment about tanking Pulse scores, it's very obvious they do not care and it doesn't matter. Abby wants butts in seats and that's that.
Director’s don’t know jack. trust me.
A director, woo
I can’t imagine 4 days in office unless they really want to tank the pulse survey worse than before. I think a VBO is more likely.
If they do it, you know these sc-mbags will announce it an email sent at 4:30PM on a Friday next month.
Not sure how that is possible without adding more real estate as the locations currently seem at capacity. Adding cap ex just for the sake of having more face time with employees hardly seems worthy of the expense. Fidelity already is behaving as if earnings are shrinking by withholding annual salary increases & shares so that would not seem prudent. I'll be curious to see how this shakes out if true, they'll probably commit to added leases just in time for the next pandemic.
I have a fly on the wall in HR. Let me check.