Since the pulse survey came back with significant negativity around work-life balance and 5-Day office requirements for employees assigned to an office, I wonder if that's being at?
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Today we just got mock-ups of the new office space we're going to be cattle-crammed into next year. It's going to be a miserable 2027
You guys need to stop with the RTO. It’s incredibly stupid but it’s staying regardless, don’t get your hopes up. It’s a tool for a clueless CEO and board to reduce costs. Either by making you quit or being able to pump up WFR numbers because people aren’t showing up. The ELT has no plan whatsoever outside of cost reductions.
The question about insurance costs got 100 up votes. Didn't get addressed.
I asked about layoffs. Didn't get addressed.
Thank GOD the two most burning issues we all face did get addressed:
1) Data centers and sustainability
2) The land acknowledgement
@ OP
That isn't even a coherent question. WTF?
@ad A few of us asked what happened to the CMO, Shannon L, that we were confused because Ayman had named her only a few weeks ago. Question not selected. Of all the questions surely employees asked around COL raises, office first, etc.,. only questions that could be answered with a ridiculous story were selected. Like what the hay with Ayman talking about body parts, organs, as an analogy. What's wrong with him??
I believe she called it "office- first" instead of RTO. There was also something about how work-life balance means something different to everybody. Even though we all were obviously talking about literally anything below 5 days a week in office
Probably not for RTO specifically. Because you can't really hire in only a couple regions and expect the other regions to be happy while asked to do odd hours. Nor be happy about most of if not all your meetings being remote. I personally don't like it but that just seems what OT wants to do right now.
For the other portions, like overall workload - we are starting to see hires in some regions and departments. But ymmv - a department can get great hires but if there's not good people or resources to train it won't actually fix overwork. That is more of what I've been seeing so far. A lot of under resourced newer folks that my team is being asked to offset. If I need to be a consultant too update my job description and my pay, potentially w/ a sale kickback.
The only way I see a change happening is:
Losing clients over internal attrition/reorg
or
Overhiring in a couple regions leading to tension in the others.
A lot of people I know asked this question in the Q&A chat but Ayman must have directed his slaves to not ask this question to him because it wasn’t mentioned at all.