Anyone catch EB’s comment around remote workers should consider moving to a hub city or be performing at a ‘high level’? Was that a threat or promise of what is to come for remote employees?!
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I prefer avocado toast myself.
This company is not worth uprooting your life, moving yourself and/or family, selling your home/finding a new home, only to be subjected to a layoff weeks or months later. I put nothing past USB.
The bank is willing to adopt every insidious McKinseyan practice there is including baiting and switching employees with the promise of keeping their jobs if they relocate to hub locations.
If you are remote and know that there is no path upward at USB, you will stay until the job market improves and once it does you bounce.
Say what you want but them saying move into a hub city aka major city is the New World Order agenda. The controllers want 15 min cities and all employees in it. Not happening in my reality.
Living in a hub doesn't even guarantee you are eligible for all jobs. Actual job requirements aside, roles are often limited to specific hubs. So even people who are employed in a hub might be out of luck if they want to move roles within their business line (or to a different business line).
Once I seen Mortgage was the gray area I was awakened by the company basically to me saying we aren't focused on Mortgage anymore. Now all they care about is payment services or products they can sell.
So i guess I will just patiently await the remote chopping block hopefully with severance.
He just confirmed what we already knew; remote employee's upward path is now a dead end. USB is severely limiting their talent pool with trend, but they really don't care about US.
Remote employees are fine but you are limited with options upwardly. I do suspect remote managers will get more scrutiny vs individual contributors though down the line.
@ak Remote employees are currently being laid off with severance. When is this switch to a PIP supposed to take place? Also, the same could be said of hybrid employees refusing to comply with RTO.
They will work remote employees out through performance plans to avoid severance. If someone has a family, and is well settled, relocating to a hub city is a huge gamble. People have relocated for other companies as part of RTO mandates only to be laid off weeks later.
So if you are remote and outside of the 20 mile radius, prepare to be laid off? Especially if you are not rated as exceeds expectations? Yeah, I am planning my exit as we speak.
Does this mean that those going into a hub location don’t have to perform at a “high level” and can slack off? Asking for a friend.
They do not pay me enough to be able to afford to live within 30 miles of basically any hub location. Sorry we’re not all C level salaried.
Elfio thinks we would uproot our lives and move to a hub because that mo--n said so. He thinks too highly of himself and this broken company. We can’t even get a normal 5-6% raise and we’re going to relocate for the 1-2%? Yeah, okay lunatic. Check him into the looney bin cause he’s delusional.