Frank was a miserable little criminal troll. Mike had the personality and warmth of a snow pea. Takis is pretty personable and has said the right things. I don't like the idea of not automatically replacing attrition, but nothing has changed in that regard. Having been in meetings with him, he's so curious and inquisitive. I hope we are in good hands. Time will tell.
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Very vague on flex. Tells me they haven’t landed on what it will look like yet. Doubt they will even go as far as reinstating Flex Fridays though. Probably expand number of “work from anywhere days.”
People at other companies think I’m kidding when I say I need to fill out a form when I need to WFH due to appointment or having a contractor in doing work. At the very least that needs to go, should be just a casual email to your manager “I won’t be in the office tmrw but I’m working.” “Yeah whatever no problem.”
The message being sent right now is we don’t trust you and that has badly hurt employee morale at all levels. Takis this is an easy fix.
I'm still using my 20 wfh days this year... They better not update the policy mid-year.
Pre-covid a lot of people were full-time remote. Outside of that I believe it was up to your management how often you had to be in the office. Frankie B was the one who made the change to make it "one size fits all" approval by only him policy.
@am I wonder if Takis misspoke there because he referred to having flexibility we had “pre-Covid” like what? What flexibility was there? Unless I misheard him.
@a2 that rolling the clock back to 2019 bullsh-t didn't sit right with my colleagues. You can't put back the genie once it's out. Remote work is here to stay.
@aa yeah and I understand teams have different responsibilities that require different flexibility. But I was more hopeful of a company wide policy on flexibility. Like sure leave it to manager discretion but signal to the company broadly “I hear you on needing more flexibility, less time in office etc so let’s try and do those things”. Even if it’s just optics, it matters because it tells me what kind of CEO we have. Is he going to be a hard a-s like Frank with the RTO nonsense or different.
@a2 He said it was up to the managers. I guess I am lucky that in my area, managers are mature about it. We come and go as we please, generally, but we work.
We're an in office company....tells me what I need to know.
Personable does not equal trustworthy or good at your job. A lot of people are very personable/charismatic and also awful. Maybe he won't be worse, but I wouldn't trust him to have anyone's interests in mind but his own.
Still a bit too vague on the flexibility though.