It's being discussed that if a FLEX employee was not in the office 3 days a week 95% of the time last year (minus approved PTO and FMLA) or if the employee was not showing online and active for 8 hours a day 95% of the time (Minus PTO), then they may not be eligible for some or all the next API/Bonus payout early next year.
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Where is the divide in this wfh issue? Is it generational? Economical? It’s much easier to say come in the office and su-k it up if your don’t have children to care for or elderly to care for… but let’s just say one day you are that elderly person or a grandmother having to stand in and care for grandchildren. We would all benefit from thinking about the situation for other employers view. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows working from home either. What about the additional expectations ? Later hours ? Additional responsibility.
HCSC employees equal post office employees. 2.5 days @ the office is ridiculous!! If you want to work from home, go start a nursery… The complacency of entitled workers. Dave Lesar needs to come back and get rid of non compliant workers…. Just like all the AVP’s that he let go. To many people act likes their job is a right. Take your a** to work.
Entitlement! Management should have everyone to show up everyday. Let the managers decide who should work from home. What if your kids teachers said they would like to have zoom classes two days a week. Pull up your pa-ties and go to work. If you can find another job that allows you to work from home please go. Not one person missed a check when Covid 19 hit. We were given little 500 suprise bonuses. The American workforce are a bunch of entitled brats.. Things change, if you want to work from home. Find a job that lets you do that. The biggest problem with HR and HCSC workforce, there are to many people for the work that is available. Management continues to let people give these far fetch dreams of getting paid and not working. Go start your own company and see how you deal with people saying they can work from their bed…
What API policy? Did they post a new one?
Did anyone read the API Policy? Not sure if they can put this into place retro actively.
Has anyone talked to an attorney? Seems like this is ripe for a Class Action lawsuit.
The rules and standards are not applied equally.
2024 is going to be a tough year for HCSC. More key employees will leave and customers will be bidding them out. Better pricing and service.
So long as you're averaging over 2 days/wk over the course of the year, nobody cares and you're not going to get in trouble.
This is definitely one certain way for people to be less productive in 2024 and increase quiet quitting.
It’s ridiculous how many people are in here defending HR/ executives. The current policy is not rational at all, and before the hr apologists go off let me explain. 4 weeks a year at least, you’ll be sick, your family will be sick, something will go wrong. We already don’t have that much pto, and for those weeks we’d do much better working from home. The current policy of “3 days no matter what” is ignorant, and shows Human Resources/ executives don’t care about people at all. If they want to make us go in 3 days a week for whatever underlying reason they have, people would be more willing to comply/happier to go in if there was added flexibility for when tough life situations come up.
If someone is abusing the policy or not following it at all, their bonus potential will be impacted. Managers can adjust how much money people get. Managers will explain to the workers not in compliance why their bonus is lower. A bonus is a never guaranteed, meaning a company isn’t required to give you any particular amount. Managers can put people on PIPs and reduce bonuses based on how well people follow the policy or not.
This is just another way to stick it to the working class so those in charge can continue with their million dollar salaries to “delegate” work to the peons. Wake up
Reduced bonus for not showing up to your job is better than getting fired for not showing up to your job.
So do in-person meetings count against the 8 hours? It seems odd to force people back in office to improve collaboration, and then punish them for actually collaborating in person instead of online.
Let’s hope the folks that had to be out cause of COVID don’t get punished. But with this uncharacteristically mean leadership team … idk.
Will they communicate this? I'm of two minds, if those of us who did hit our days get extra, then sure why not. But if they don't then I'm on my coworkers presumed side that this is horrible to do with no warning.
I know a lot of people plan their whole budget around these bonuses so them reducing or forgoing them for non-compliance would be....a choice on leaderships part.
Has anybody heard anything else?
Be careful who you snitch on, especially if violations are blatant. They might be friends or family of management, and they can be blatant, too.
Someone in our area moved there recently but never really moved in to the workspace. This employee is never, ever there and so much so that the moving tags are still on their computer monitor and such. It is blatant. Another person working nearby decides to clock in now and by badging through security but then turning around and going home. We haven’t seen that employee in a while and when we see the employee on a call she is always at home.
HR & Strategy needs to get this together. Teams is apart of the workday? Make a hard rule on work from home or at the office and let the managers manage. To many cooks in the kitchen…
Where did you get a 10% RIF out of any of this?
That’s one way to tick off people and make them want to leave. Or to have a reason to fire people for not following policy. If we do the math, in a population of at least 27,000 employees, 10 percent RIF is 2,700 people. That’s a lot.
How are they determining if an employee is active for 8 hours a day? Does that take into account teams access via mobile apps? For example if someone joined an 8am call every day from the mobile app on their drive in, would that be included in their 8 hours? Or are they only looking at VPN/office wifi?
Welp that’s one way lol
So long as the withheld bonus from the no-show clowns gets paid out to the people who ARE complying with the flex policy, I'm good with this.
That’d be kind of funny but also su-k for a lot of people. I think less than half of my division is hitting 2 days in the office let alone 3
10-20% reduction. This is what my manager told