generally curious, is your group going in the 3 days? still seems really dead when I am in.
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The disciplinary action is them terminating you for not coming in on core days if you for some reason had to go in with the vague, consistently changing criteria they came up with despite the majority of employees in the last few years being taken on as permanent remote. More likely to get randomly laid off than actually have them do anything to you for not coming in. Especially since management immediately didn't follow the standard and kept getting on remote calls clearly from their home.
I live 55 miles from closest office. No one on my team is in that office. I’m in DE . My manager is in Utah and our team is in Ohio, Tx, Oklahoma and the Phillipines. So I never went into office cuz one it’s to far and 2 - I would still have to talk thru teams so saw no point.
Does anyone actually know what the “disciplinary action” is if we don’t go into the office?
It's obvious all this RTO stuff is so some executive can pat themselves on the back for having "engaged" employees. CVS loves that word "Engagement", and all the others attached to it like engaged, engaging, etc. Engagement is like the #1 buzzword at CVS, to simply make it seem like employees are happy and love the job. It's disgusting.
It's another management failure where they wanted to do something just to do it to pat themselves on the back and otherwise no input. No attempts to coordinate people who actually work together in the same area so they go in, eat lunch and go home having been alone the entire day and now missing out on cat, dog or more disgustingly time with their family if they are raising one. Attempt to do something productive or don't push RTO at all. As it stands it's a net negative decision and I'm happy to see the majority of the workforce basically vetoing it by not coming in despite them saying it's serious for real this time after already failing at it twice. At the same time I guess we'll see what happens this month. Wouldn't of made any difference if folks went in or not so don't beat yourself up if we get bad news.
I agree the Hartford buildings have been a thorn in everyone's side for years. They're moving backwards in time not allowing people to wah if they choose because they have to fill the space. They don't care that wah is a cost savings for employees who don't get paid enough. Forcing people to go in when their actual teams are disbursed throughout the country. Whos face am I'm supposed to go in the office and see? A stranger that I don't work with? It's assbackwards. CVS also frowns on variable schedules. But they want you to think they're pro work life balance. CVS su-ks. Karen su-ks. The whole thing su-ks.
The downers grove Il office is nearly empty no more the 50 people in a 7 floor building
Buffalo grove has more people but it’s not full.
A lot of people hired during the pandemic are WFH not near any office and many who used to go to the office were coded WFH
In CT report to CA manager and he advised I can stay remote full time
Over in Hartford/Aetna. There is two parking garages. One of them has a counter for how many car spaces are left.
Before the mandate, the counter hovered around 800. After, around 500.
Brian K. sent an email recently indicating that they recently welcomed 500 employees back into the offices, split between CT and RI. So it wasn't a lot. Seems like most people live outside of the 25 mile radius and weren't forced back in.
Americans are already broke. Going into the office is going to make the average worker even more poor. They need to have 1 smaller building in Hartford. These buildings are huge! On the other hand. When Aetna was stand alone they couldn't fit all of the employees in the Hartford building that's when THEY offered WAH. No they wanna retract the offer to people that have WAH'd for over 20 years? Give me a break.
Let them fire people like they did when people didn't get the jab.
When you give an ultimatum be prepared to act on it. Dell tried it and learned the majority didn't care what the repercussions might be. FAAFO is a poor strategy considering the cost of losing a vast pool of expertise on the business and systems.
Last September they said it was a requirement then people stopped after a month. Same thing this time, considering management always join calls from their bedroom they need to go in if they want people to stick with it. Shower and go out, even lower managers shouldn't be able to WFH period if they're making a 200k or whatever. Doesn't look good on any of them and I hope they're the first to get the axe since they abuse their position in every way they possibly can. Dissolve the managerial organization and hire managers who go in this sh--s ridiculous.
It’s going to get
More empty once the layoffs are announced in a few weeks