With new management rolling in what are the chances work from home is cut out?
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Personally, I get no benefit from working in the office. I hate it. Fielding questions literally all day, every day gets super annoying and I'm expected to stop everything to answer. I get actual work done on the very rare occasion I work from home.
I work from home. Why? Because I often worked 7 days a week.
Why? Because a contractor needed my desk.
Why? Taxes
Why? Carbon footprint
Why? Because my Director said I could
I am a 6V. I am expected to be chained to my cube from 8 am to 6 pm, 7 to 7 during close.
Don't work for free. Everyone else doing it doesn't make it right or fair.
Wfh is very simple... I can wfh, take vacation, take sick time or quit, but only one of those options helps the company. If your boss and/or team comes in, you should probably come in unless there's something preventing you like an appointment. Permanent wfh is something totally different (ie hired for a wfh position). Your reason to wfh is irrelevant to the company since you were hired to work x hours/wk from a specified location, and fyi... its solely for your benefit until they ask you to work from home. Most of what I hear is complaining about needing to work from home "to be productive" or "because other people get to", which is all nonsense. If you need wfh, you should apply to that, period.
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Inaccurate. I am a 6V. I am expected to be chained to my cube from 8 am to 6 pm, 7 to 7 during close.
WFH is viewed as not working at all , even when all deliverables are timely and accurate from home.
It’s all about perception. Management wants the asses in the chairs as much as possible so it looks like they are producing....even though many people can be more productive from home. Our entire B2B channel works remotely.
Your ability to work from home is correlated with your pay band. Seven and up, you work from anywhere you'd like without concern for rules that apply to others.
I worked in a cube in a wing of empty cubes for years but I had to go to the office even though no one was there. They even ran badge reports and occasionally had the local hr person check on me to make sure I wasn’t working from home.
They don’t make decisions based on productivity only whatever they prefer or how they used to work and perhaps some on what might make people uncomfortable because they can.
Tami Erwin was one of the leaders of the concept that everyone needs to be in an office. She calls it "collaboration" they didn't care how far a commute may have been for some. The day she went back to Wireless was the same day everyone stopped going to their assigned office. One her her first big moves will be to get back to people reporting to office locations. Absolute joke!
We sell remote connectivity solutions, but we LARGELY don't let our own people work remotely.
We are trying to sell technology of 2019 with the office mentality of the 1950s. Brilliant!!
I worked from home for over 20 years and was way more productive than being in an office. Especially these new open floor plans. I would go insane in that environment. Nothing worse than being on a conference call with people who have 10 others yammering in the background. Mute only works if you are not speaking. That being said, I think it's a perk that has to be earned and not everyone or every job is suitable for working from home. I don't think it will ever go away completely.
Zero...new area based working counts on a 80% occupancy level
Work from home is a perk not an entitlement make your future plans as such. That goes for any business not just Verizon.
A few factors to consider.
Around 10 yrs ago, WFH increased in IT because we were expanding and a 8x8 cube I think on average costs $20K yearly (NJ). Trusted people were then allowed WFH. Remember, most IT folks are best put in the backroom (their homes) because they can do most of their work on their laptops. BIG savings for the company in office costs.
Today, 10,400 people are leaving, and a huge number are IT folks. This will free up big amounts of office space, which the company will unfortunately still have to pay for (ie. Lease). Company then could decide to recall some WFH people so as not to waste office space that it is paying for.
Also, Verizon may want to maintain its image of a progressive company that cares for our environment, and decide to go on with the WFH program to keep its employees carbon footprint low. Or, this could just be wishful thinking :)
They do that cyclically in an effort to pry loose comfortable, older workers so they will leave.
A few years ago in IT they mandated everyone had to report to a “directional” facility, like BR, Temple Terrace etc...
No one should build their lifestyle or buy a home based on such an arrangement.