I know Brian Kane was a strong proponent of in-office work, do you think him being removed will have any impact on that moving forward?
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Haven't seen Karen yet in the office
I think there won't be a huge push. She said something about buildings so hoping they plan on selling some off. Hartford has too much office space and they need to get rid of it. That's a huge cost savings right there
If they want to save money get rid of the mostly empty buildings people are driving into to talk to their team members who WFH on teams or slack.
You can’t force a vibrant workplace, it has to happen naturally and sitting in a cube, alone and isolated is not going to make it happen.
They’re looking for reasons to fire people with cause so they can reduce headcount without paying severance. No chance they get rid of in-office requirements for that reason alone.
Rto is being used to get rid of people who don't comply plain and simple.
Karen herself has been annoyed in the past about lack of voluntary RTO.
Former CEO Sean Guertin openly/jokingly called her and other C-suite for not coming in when it was 1 or 2 days a week even though she was the one that was pushing it in a finance town hall. That was his last finanace town hall before “stepping down for personal reasons”
WorkOne and RTO were in place before Kane, so don't expect change.
Karen and exec crew will be on-site at aetna. Doubt things will change.