Some folks obviously have flexibility. Do you?
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This is being done to make people quit. Hold the line. I know it's hard every day to travel for hours to sit in on zoom calls. I personally may have 1 or 2 face to face conversations a week. I could have done those in 1 day onsite and worked from home rest of the time. Instead, everyones morale is in the toilet and that's by design. They don't know how to cut strategically. You have to understand who does what and what is important. No one knows that. So this is the way - make everyone miserable and let them quit.
Just don't quit. Do the minimum to not get fired.
@ks be sure to come back here and whine when you don't get shares or your full bonus
@f0 so true! I also shifted from being extremely motivated to now just badging in and out and do minimum -- only motivation is to do the right thing for my team.
My laptop activity is half now. No more stretching, striving, working late nights or weekends. Anything to increase productivity is pointless. No more suggestions to do improve processes or products. Just grind away, slowly like a donkey. Bare minimum to not get fired. What a way to work in 2026. They have ki-led all motivation. We might as well bring desktops back. No reason to lug around a laptop that just stays off when I am not in the office.
AI makes it so easy to dig through the badge data and pick this month's targets. You're double sc--wed if the AI sees activity tracker data showing that your laptop isn't productive.
@bz 90% of days you are supposed to be in. So if it’s every day and you’re wfh 3/20 days you’d be out of compliance
@bz with all the switching around of everything the last couple years, my whole BU's KPIs have been invisible, so it's actually kinda on brand.
@bt 90% of what though? I know why they won't tell us, but I wish we weren't trying to guess what the bar is. it's ridiculous to be graded on invisible criteria.
@bk - boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I p00p on company time
Forget patterns. I’ve heard from teams that names appear on a list for anything less than 90% compliance. PTO is excluded. Do with that what you will.
@b8 yeah I agree them looking for patterns is stupid and I wouldn't have forced people back into the office if it was my choice. But unfortunately all we can do is try to protect ourselves from their tactics, which means it's ill-advised to be working off site consistently on the same weekday, at least if you want to avoid punitive action.
I fear that bonus revocations from last year were their idea of being light handed. It wouldn't surprise me if this year some folks are terminated due to on site compliance issues.
this is all just a guess from me but I would personally take HR's severity about this very seriously.
@b8 amen to that. You're not far off on the chips in seat theory, as the new badges will track you throughout the building. Which is why mine comes off my person and onto my desk during the work day, so that my biological needs are not part of my employee file thanks to big brother.
@ac the fact that HR is spending money to “look for patterns” in WFH is a551nine - how about they actually spend money on improving the products for the customers. Next they will be putting chips in the seats to see how long you have been at your desk. This place is exhausting.
100% of my PTO is on a connect week Monday or Friday.
Your analytical skils are underwhelming as it is so obviuos that this is the case with almost everyone.
Duh.
Best to assume it's gonna be pretty strictly enforced. HR's official statement is they're looking for "patterns" so consistently working offsite/leaving very early on Fridays multiple weeks in a row will likely put you under their microscope.
I think they want things like working off site for personal appointments or illness to show up as statistically random noise, maybe once or twice in a quarter?
Obviously PTO is protected and your right to take. They can't and won't penalize you for using your PTO allotment assuming you have it available to spend.
Flexibility is an illusion. If your people manager is communicating that to you, just know that they have no power in determining who's year end bonus and salary increment is taken away. The powers that be are just looking for a reason to cut costs. Either don't give them one or if you value your mental/ physical health or time with family more, be prepared to take the economic hit.
I know it sounds harsh but you can't have your cake and eat it too. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
@a2 So much for progressive discipline.
80% of all PTO days are taken on a Monday or Friday. With RTO we'll definitely be seeing a lot of this while people adjust their family lives.
I noticed the same… I still show up everyday albeit some times I come in later than 8 because I’m so tired :(
I’ve not been communicated that but it does seem very light on Mondays and Fridays. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to warn you before the rug is ripped out from underneath you and they give you no bonus, so the people who aren’t showing up everyday probably won’t know they are doing anything wrong until bonus time.