Two employees outright fired today for non-compliance with the RTO policy. Company was well prepared with legal and HR. They had been warned twice, and apparently on their calls HR had a lot of data around badge swiping, interviews w office snitches, log in detail. Zero severance. Looks like then you get two warnings.
Be aware.
Hope to find a remote only role soon can't wait to leave this sh---y company
@ev Most of the senior leaders like Directors and VPs are in locations not close to an office. I doubt they’ll be forced to an office.
@dy ummmmm....;)
If you are required to work from an office, make that your only work time. I would set my work hours very clearly on my calendar and teams and then show myself as "out of office" for all other time. I would include a note in my TEAMs that anyone who reached out to me sees "My in office work hours are x" . I would not log in from home including on my phone until I was back in the office, sitting at my desk. Have an out of office message for your email that runs the same.
Wait until January when all the targeted virtual employees who have never worked in an office suddenly have to show up every day. Other than a brief stint out of University I have always worked virtually and have declined offers with significant comp increase because they were hybrid. Office requirement is life altering and it is awful for employees here faces with this new enforcement.
Makes no difference since they are not offering severance and rather managed you out or use RTO as an excuse.
I was given a final warning several months ago despite doing what my manager and their manager said was ok. They were subsequently fired. All the time a director in the office was well aware and rarely stays in the office for more than 4 hours. All of my team were essentially doing the same thing but I was singled out for some reason. So many others in the office are here for a few hours and never to be seen again for the rest of the day. I am fully awaiting my call with HR despite following RTO fully after getting a warning. I'm hoping for a severance but they will find one day that I left 1 minute early and use that for cause.
@av Oh but most of them are happily virtual !
Lol...every exec has an office. I am going to start timing their entries and exits. Please ask me here. I will share the details and then, you can put the proof in front of the HR
@a7 I am more interested in which roles.
If you're shitcanning a senior engineer for not badge swiping enough, Fu-k you're stupid.
If you're getting rid of random office staff, that is still stupid cause they have institutional knowledge, even if you don't know it. But is slightly less stupid.
@a7 Two different US offices. Different teams. Literally 10 minute call. Likely more employees but these are the 2 known to me.
Which office?
No sympathy, warned twice what did they expect.
We all saw this coming so no one should be surprised. RTO su-ks. Unemployment su-ks more. Not a chance I’d take.