Has anyone heard about an email coming from HQ that will require all US employees to return to office 4 days a week? What is the timing of this communication?
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I’ve heard the Retail Casualty CFO was pushing very hard for 5 days in the office but they are testing four right now. Terrible human only cares about themself not their employees.
There is no formal notice yet, but from what I heard, Managers have been told by HR....I also heard that PTO doesn't count towards your days in the office too...so if you take PTO you have to make up those days...this is just crazy.
In some offices they will be mandating that folks will have to do 2 Fridays a month as part of their 4 days a week in order to make use of the office space. So looks like no one will be safe.
Also hearing that folks with limited office attendance are being marked down as not meeting expectations in year end reviews in order to smooth out the bonus pool to reward higher performers
The rumor of return to office 4 days a week is a fact. The timing is still not clear. Even if you're currently a "remote" employee, you will be expected to go to the nearest AIG office if your home is within a certain distance. (not sure of the official distance but I hear it's 50 miles). Real Estate and Network teams are currently analyzing the free space and bandwidth to make adjustments if necessary/possible.
There is no space in the offices, unless they are waiting to fire enough people until everyone fit in...
Underwriters at our location in the US have been told to be in office 4 days a week when they were previously only 3. Get ready
I keep hearing that a communication is coming out very soon but haven’t seen anything. Does anyone know when this is coming? So far just informal notice from management and no clear communication on policy change, or guidance to employees on what happens if we don’t comply. Very poor rollout of this IMHO.
No formal communications as to be handled at the L2 level to their orgs via word of mouth. And again no reports for managers to use to see who is coming in or not. The reports exist but not being shared, likely until there is a need to remove an employee and then out will come the attendance records showing job abandonment. Another senior mgmt clown show and absolute failure in leadership
In NY I was told to come in 4 days or expected to be targeted in lay off.
The way how this is handled shows clearly the weakness of the senior management that seems to have totally lost perspective. A lot of rumors and no clear directions... They would like to have everyone in the office so that some will leave spontaneusly, but in this way they can't control who's actually leaving (generally the first to leave are the ones more requested by the job market...). Also, in many offices there isn't enough space anymore for everyone and noone would have ever the guts to lease more spaces increasing costs for a useless CEO whim... So, within this chaos, low lvl managers are left alone, with the fear of losing their best employees if they are too strict with RTO or losing their own sit if HR thinks they Aren't upholding correctly a policy that officially doesn't even exists.. I'm so sick tired of this sh-tshow
In USA it depends on your division. New employees being told 3 days a week in office. For legacy employees it depends on your division. Underwriting has been coming in 3 days a week for a while now. Claims it’s been 2 days a week. For other divisions it seems mostly to be 2 days a week.
Top 5 AIG offices by employee count…1) India, 2) Philippines, 3) Houston, 4) London, 5) Remote. RTO process will be uneven but could become a reality if you’re not hard coded as Remote in HR system.
We were told to come 4/week with no formal communication expected. NY
Hopefully for all US employees 5 days they are doing a terrible job I don’t work in management or I wouldent be saying this!
Not for USA employees.