My business decided to exit our location in 2025. I am currently remote w/ a medical based exception, there are a few of us in this classification, but we all live in one of the targeted areas. Some say we are protected from location-based layoffs because we are "remote". My understanding is that is not true, and we are first in line for displacement?
I am sure this has been discussed before but looking for some current discussion.
The only thing being at a "core" location does is change the fake excuse that tell you when they lay you off. We're all still getting canned, in the end.
You are not protected by remote and exception if your location is not a core. You will be asked to move or to leave the bank. This has happened already to my coworkers.
I go in, but I support every single remote employee not matter what the reason. Them simply existing proves that RTO is a complete joke and absolute failure. Waste of time, waste of money and a huge lost opportunity to best our peers and steal all the best talent.
Please will you just go in the office three days a week like the rest of us have to and stop fighting it. medical accommodations are not this is getting old
Read your accomodation letter. It literally tells you in black and white that you are not exempt from location strategy.
Turn about is fair play. Their reasons for RTO are fake as well. FHY, and their bootlickers. They'll be canned like the rest of us. Compliance won't save you.
no one is protected
my coworker in colorado was asked to move to charlotte and get an accommodation there, she took the layoff
my other coworker on medical leave was laid off
On another website a person who has accommodations to wfh was asked to move to a core city and really for accommodations. Basically they treat like out of core then once in core (if one chooses to move) then you can do the wfh accommodations again.
2 things to consider:
This has been covered multiple times. Here's the hard truth: If your position is eliminated for efficiency or location reasons, you are not protected. People post on here all the time about being contacted while on leave, or with an accommodation, or remote status to be told their job is gone. It doesn't change anything or shield you.
ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Germ Phobia are fake excuses.
@OP, excluding any conjecture or hypotheses, if the business is exiting your location/region then you 100% will be displaced or offered RELO at best because, at that point, you would become a Remote employee. The medical exception for remote work does not play into that at all. The medical exception is not a protected class for employment reasons.
If the business remained in the area and your status remained Remote due to a Medical Exception then you still wouldn’t be safe. You would be subject to efficiency adjustments and all that would have to happen is other, medically remote people would also need to be displaced to show you weren’t targeted. Of course non-remotes would also have to be affected.
You are not protected from location-based displacements. You are not necessarily first in line. There are so many efficiency and location displacements queued up that it could take until 2027 to get to all of them.
Trust no guesses, remote or location… they’re targeting you; exception or not, they don’t care. My feeling is they will have an emphasis on remote stays as low hanging fruit in 2025… more of the same, actually. But medical exceptions are all reviewable, so don’t rest on that either way