The B levels in my dept all got fully remote status a year ago. And the C levels got an increase from 2 to 3 days in office. Anyone know why this is? I thought at some point C levels would get remote status too.
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Given all the pressure from government and banks holding leases on commercial real estate for RTO, I'd guess that working remote makes you a target for a RIF.
Employees who have a hybrid option but voluntarily choose to RTO 5 days each week and/or are in the office very early 6am or 7am, and leave the office later than their peers are probably escaping or hiding from their home life and/or spouse.
They do NOT want to be home!
NO one in their right mind wants to commute or drive, waste money on transportation/petroleum, be exhausted from commuting 5 days each week unless they're running away or hiding from something or someone in their home life!
As you said maybe he has NO life outside of the office and so, he's running away from that situation. Being IN the office makes him feel like he has "friends" or "companionship". LOL!
Prior to Citi at my previous employer, there was an MD who was in the office 6am or 7am, and didn't leave until 8pm or 9pm everyday. The only reason I know this is because his direct reports told me.
He often had yelling at the top of his lungs fights on the phone w/ his wife everyone could hear through his closed office door, and see his reactions through the glass wall of his office. These I heard myself. No one had to tell me about the yelling.
Everyone heard and knew about his personal business and problems about....his wife, children, house, in-laws, maid, gardener, cars, etc..
@f4 Everyone at the Roy, UT site was made remote when the lease was not renewed last year. Closest site to Roy is 4 hours away in Idaho and they are oversubscribed already. I work in RES and there is no rhyme or reason to who get's to be WFH and who is RTO.
@e7 Interesting, must be peon robots doing menial jobs that aren't worth a seat. RTO is huge and everyone knows it. New sites are being allocated and there is a heavy demand for RTO and it's being tracked. Guess there is a small pocket of tech worker bees that get to do it from their couch. Everyone else is required to be in the office. It's been discussed ad nauseum on here. I was remote. My site closed. Of 40 of my peers, despite a 2 - 2 rating, I was the only one cut due to the lack of an office to report to. Makes no sense if all these people you speak of are being made remote.
@e4
Don't tell anyone that No one else, No other employee knows how to do your job.
Else your manager will force you to "cross-train" your co-workers and force you to divulge your techniques and trade secrets under the pretense of "just in case you're on vacation or out sick" other employees need to know how to do your job.
Divulging how to do your job and trade secrets makes you fungible, replaceable and Fire-able.
I had a manager @Citi do the above to me. I absolutely stood firm and used every excuse in the book to NOT divulge info, trade secrets, techniques and NOT train my coworkers. At most I gave the bare minimum info that can easily be found or asked from other employees.
This is the Citi Hunger Games and a game of survival. Employers will throw employees to the wolves if and when the tables are reversed!
@aw This is blatantly false. I know of hundreds that have been transitioned to fully remote.
@b9 - Coffee swiping worked great for me until some je-k-off, who is in the office 5 days a week because he has no life, decided to take it upon himself to rat me out to my director. I got a call from my director that it was reported I was "not living up to company expectations for on-site work and collaboration". I do one thing for Citi and I do it damn well, I don't need to go into a packed facility in a bullpen environment and hear 30 people on zoom called talking at the top of their lungs. If I get rif'd, nobody knows how to do what i do and some dominos will fall. Can't wait!
Tomorrow a (necessary) Citi 388 coffee-badging challenge. Mission is LIRR into Penn before 8am #2 train to Chambers, tap in, make it back to Penn and use the same 2-hour window peak ticket home by 930. My secret safe here? Nobody notices nobody cares. RIF me whenever you are ready.
Same reason why most agents are remote, Citi can’t find employees that want to work at the office for the offered compensation
@aw how do you know
@b4 ill do you one better, been coffee badging since 2021. Not a peep from anyone about it
Saw that 2 week in August memo today. Better, 1 day a week until August, none then whatever in September. Our 388bxz is full of newbies, they need me more than I need them and nobody is RIFing me. I didn't come in this week, FIFA excuse....
@aw this is so inaccurate bye lol
No one is being made remote. Everyone is RTO. It is however based on site and seat availability. Those that aren't near a site will be RIFd. ask me how I know.