6-8 hours is a guess that is likely. Retroactive possible. Question is when does the hammer come crashing.
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Many of y'all need to learn to read subtext. It will help prevent you from being surprised about what has already been communicated.
The "Working in the office: In-office attendance and reporting (Global)" article FAQs state "The current dashboard and reporting do not use duration as part of the formula and do not define a set number of hours that equals a 'day' in the office. Any amount of time worked onsite is counted as a day worked on the dashboard. That said, the expectation of working a full day onsite remains unchanged."
Key Word: Current.
Key Phrase: "...the expectation of working a full day onsite remains unchanged."
Translation: You are expected to be in office for eight hours, we are tracking you, and soon we will be using it in the reporting we plan to hold against you.
Also important to note that it does not say they are not tracking hours - it's simply not part of the formula, again, currently. Hourly adherence is being tracked and leaders are expected to speak to team members who have a pattern of working partial days in office.
I don't think it's a question of what counts as a day, right now pretty much anything does.
The concern is that once they bring any kind of new rule they can also choose to make it retroactive. At the end of the day it's totally their right but it feels dirty dirty
This is just from my experience. I have left early or came in late for appointments. I have had days where I only worked 5.5 or 6 hours and it’s counted as an in office day on the tracker. Not saying it won’t ever happen but so far I have not run into the problem of it not counting a day when I don’t work the full 8 in the office. My manager is also reasonable and understands I have a life outside of work and doesn’t expect that we are in 8 hours every possible day for things like this.
@c9 that is ridiculous. I stopped by the office to pick up my nice food storage containers so they wouldn't get tossed out the last Friday of the month. Am I expected to report this to my manager because I swiped my badge and didn't work from the office that day? This is worse than BEFORE the pandemic. This level of surveillance over salaried employees is abusive and pathetic. The MC should be focused on growth and the overall health of the bank. Instead, they waste costly resources on micromanaging and cutting costs at the expense of the longterm sustainability and value of this company.
Arrogance, entitlement and an unearned sense of superiority has become the culture of the MC and upper management. There is also an attitude of "us vs them" and disdain in their communication toward employees. A sad group that has destroyed a once great American company.
@c9 we were told on a RM&C call that RTO isn't one size fits all, but showing up to an office just to work remotely from the office sure feels like one size fits all
Y'all have been saying this for a year. Trust me bro it's real this time bro. RTO sh-t su-ks here no doubt but they're never going to reverse it.
I got in trouble earlier in the year for badge swiping and was put on a three month warning. My manager said that I can come in the office for six hours and that’s what I do. Earlier this year, the updated HR Q&A said that they are tracking our hours and that this could be in our reports later so I assume they’ll pull the rug from under our feet again.
Honestly this system is so annoying since a good portion of the bank doesn’t even work, including me, with our team members in person. This is just a way for them to cut bonuses and pay raises next year as @bd started. Sigh.
There is already an active thread about this.
This company will follow what other companies do. The banking companies that do this stuff will lose so many valued employees but they don't care. 70% of my team is remote based, 4 of us have to drive into a hub, and those that go into a hub are in different locations. What a mess...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article316910881.html
"When I characterized it as commuting to the office to work remotely from the office, the Wells employee replied: “That’s right — exactly right.” Maybe that’s what makes the whole situation so absurd."
I’m going to guess it’ll be after this round of talk to us surveys but before performance review so it can be used to continue denying promotions and raises and further decrease bonuses.