Don't get your hopes up. All you'll get is a lot of disappointment and most likely anger.
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Same old BS
You raise a lot of good points here. I still think that historically for most of the American workforce, working in office helps a career a ton, and there’s a lot of history backing it and not much backing working from home helping individuals build their career (You kind of just proves that point), and a lot of studies have shown it doesn’t help productivity much either as a lot of people can get away with working like 5hrs/week if they work fully remote.
Some of us have already achieved our career goal as far as the level we want to be at. I would refuse a promotion from where I am because the next level up is nothing but corporate BS and is completely uninteresting. Many companies are 100% remote or close to it, are we supposed to believe that no one ever gets promoted there? Everyone at PayPal or Coinbase is just entry level and never moves up? Nonsense. The fact of the matter is, for remote people if you move up it's entirely based on merit. There really are no other factors at work. In person, kissing A, leveraging office drama, etc. might get you a promotion in the absence of merit. People who can only thrive in the latter will have issues in the future as economic necessity pushes the economy towards WFH. Recently there's been a largely political drive shift to RTO, but it will fail. People need to learn how to thrive working remote, because a lot of workers will be doing it whether they like it or not.
Chicago good. Remote bad. Marque numero dos para espanol.
I actually think there’s a ton of merit in what charlie said around building a career in person. Generally I think people that want to work from home have their main objective of work life balance. These types of people are bottom feeders and will never move up in companies long term.
Cs the best in the biz!
I skipped it. Worthless drivel.
Everyone should to send him a message.
"You can’t advance your career unless you are in person..." translates to you can kiss @$$ more effectively in person. It's more difficult to build a fiefdom, play politics, and create a toxic work environment with remote workers.
I stopped listening to anyone OC-1 and above about a year ago. Definitely makes this place more tolerable. They aren't going to tell you the truth and this current regime has a year left, two tops, before they pull the cord on the golden parachute. So who really cares what they say?
Yeah, no S. Has anyone at PayPal got a promotion in the last several years? Alllllrighty then.
@tyh it was the only way he could advance his. He didn't have the skills to advance it any other way.
Jack*ss response to the core location question. “What do you mean???😳 core location?” Has no one told him about the hub strategy? Such a waste of time. Word words word
@jip did the audience burst out laughing?
You can’t advance your career unless you are in person. What a joke and such an old way of thinking. It’s 2023, you can have a very fulfilling and advance your career from home. Wells Fargo is so behind on the times (which we already knew).
When CS is talking about making this a better place to work, remember he's also talking to 60k off shore people. It is for these folks alone that WF wants to be happy.
We've done all this stuff to make this a better place to work...
I actually choked on my drink. The absolute stones on this guy.
I can’t hear it-the sound cut out. More interesting that way anyway.
There is only one good thing that comes from WF leadership town halls... The peanut gallery here.
It’s riveting!
I am ignoring it.