I am based in Houston and my entire team has been replaced with employees in Buenos Aires and Manila. Does anyone have advice or strategies on maximizing the benefits of in-person collaboration the upcoming RTO changes will offer?
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What I think is genuinely funny is how because of the open concept, productivity will be at an all time low. I’ve worked open concept and I’m a HiPot….it’s a productivity disaster (at CVX and external).
I have no problem coming in every day, but management has no idea what’s about to happen with open concept, it’s going to be incredible to watch!!!
Let me see if i understand this ..you went on a layoff website. For pointers on how to run a remote team? Boy does Chevron deserve you
Its all BS. We as a company want to prioritize in person collaboration!! But we will offshore to India on a diff time zone and to BA. BA only go into office 2 days a week. Productivity has now plummeted even more which was foreseen. I dont think there is coming back from this.... No motivational BS will ever get productivity back up when leadership treat employees like children and expect them to believe lies. 100% for control but they cant say that.
Conversation I witnessed: female inquired whether she would be required to do m-th in office because she has coverage issues for one of the days. Mgr basically stated that the policy is this but essentially negotiable in a case like this. This implies we’re willing to give preferential treatment to employees with young kids. Either apply the policy to all in the same manner or don’t require folks to show up m-th.
The enforcement is at the manager level and if you are someone’s pet, the enforcement is different.
4 people on my team were work from home on Thursday this week including my 2nd level manager but I have been pursued with malice for a similar infraction. Can’t hive the details because it might out me on this forum with my manager and the HR Business Rep that is crawling up my @ss.
Same ole “do as I say not as I do” cr@p.
Get a helmet and find a foam wall.
“Fly to your team”. Lol
@a8 Good idea, all those flights sound expensive though! I wonder if MW will lend me his private jet if I tell him its for cost efficiency reasons?
RTO 4 days a week is not based on logic. Keeping a hybrid schedule with everyone working 2 days in the office on specific days would be the prudent choice. Hybrid would also keep work life balance which makes a happy employee. RTO is not about working together. RTO 4 days is about control.
There is nothing to make it worth it! Its Wirthless
Duh! Get on a plane and fly to your team. I mean, we gotta meet in person, right, and there is one of you and multiples of them so cheaper to just have you go to them. Then you can enjoy being up close and personal with your whole team.