Hearing that HPE is closing offices in July. Think they will force more people back to office and eliminate work from home?
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Check the Ask-HR slack channel. Lots of WFR related questions, so it is hard to call is quiet firing.
It is quiet. Too quiet. All that quietness could be the sound of lots of folks quietly quitting, or quietly being fired. Either way, it is indeed quiet. So maybe you're on to something.
Quiet firing? 2H so dismal that they hope people will quit to avoid bad layoff press?
Yes. Definitely. They're doing here at HP in Houston already so I'm sure HPE Houston will follow suit. Our two companies still operate very much the same.
Engineering, quality, product management, are the three biggest groups who are going to the office. Not sure about HPE Houston but HP Houston is desperately throwing events left and right to get us in the office.
Buildings cost a lot of money and they realized that during covid.
Good luck!
– Former HPEer... Peer... P-e-r
It's much tougher to come in to office than to WFH. Do you know how much energy it takes to stare blankly at the screen whole trying to look busy? To spend an hour or two at the coffee machine to chat with anyone who stops by? To take a two hour lunch? To take a walk outside for a mental break?
Look on the bright side, HPE's RTO policy is making it much easier for us retirees to get a weekday tee-time on the courses around Spring, Texas.
Good to see all those HPE middle-management duffers going back to work!
All of these large companies demanding RTO at the same time can’t be a coincidence. It must be planned, perhaps when Antonio colluded in secret with other global CEOs at the WEF in Davos. “Workers are getting too uppity, too confident, so let’s put the screws to them. Order them back to the office and engineer a global recession to put them in their place.”
2-3 days is what will start out, unless folks sc--w that up too and we end up back to 5 days.
Folks didn't want to come in the one day required and now we got to do two or three days smh
There are 100% remote opportunities out there. I started one last week but didn’t inform HPE, which is still paying me to do nothing. This could last maybe 3 or 4 more weeks. My manager gave up caring years ago.
HPE is requiring all employees that are within driving distance to an office to come in at least 3 days a week unless you are classified as an teleworker/edge employee which is typically a sales or consulting position. This is no different from any other large corporation that's trying to get their workforce to return to the office. 3 days a week in the office and two days home remote is a hybrid work schedule which is very fair for its employees.
They will force you to come back to the office. Anyone that didn't expect this is a fool. There are plenty of people willing to work in the office such that anyone thinking they can fight it ... is a fool.
But there is a flip side: Many HP jobs (or elsewhere) require you to attend meetings in off-hours. If they want you in the office 100% you can't do that. So don't. My manager said "in the office 100% of the time." "Will do" and I dropped all off-hours meetings. I was asked why I wasn't attending - because they are aren't during my working hours and I can't work from home. I told everyone I won't drive back to the office at 8pm, 2pm, 4am, whatever hour. Funny how the rules started to relax.
HPE will eliminate the jobs at least in the US.eliminate