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The working theory is that our “leaker” was caught and no longer with us.
I hope that someone will step up and take their place.
Real news on RIFs
This site used to have good information related to coming layoffs. Now all it seems to have is people complaining about upper management and/RTO. Sadly, the site is becoming more irrelevant as time passes.
So I will try one more time. Does anyone have any REAL intell on coming layoffs?
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If only HCSC cracked down on nepotism and favoritism the way they are cracking down on RTO and the ridiculous 3 days average in the office.
I’ve been hearing that by the end of the year, they plan to stop centrally monitoring badge swipes altogether.
Instead the responsibility will shift to individual mgrs and orgs, who will have the discretion to decide what kind of in-office expectations they want to set for their own teams.
My group is doing a small amount of hiring, but every time it's posted in Brazil, because we can pay them significantly less than we would have to pay an American.
Funny how we need to RTO to collaborate, but then we continue to hire people in a different country than the people who are back in the office.
Due to abuse I believe starting October you'll need to badge out of any building instead of just badge in. They're going to crack down on RTO. You'll be written up if you do not come into office
The beatings will continue until morale improves
They know they will score even lower than in March if they come out with the mandatory RTO policy!
Watch out!
The RTO mandate begins next week. I honestly thought I would be seeing more anger about it on here as the time got closer, but instead, the discussion about it has just kind of dried up. Has everyone just kind of quietly given up and accepted it? Or is nobody talking about it because people are just planning to ignore it? Curious to hear people's thoughts now that it's almost here.
To incentivize the slaves back to the office, lets have a monthly meat raffle - sponsored by Trump steaks. The money raised can be used to keep Intel afloat and the winner gets the world's greatest steaks (Certified Aged Angus Beef Prime) and the best tasting most flavorful beef you've ever had, five star gourmet and truly in a league of their own. This is a win win partnership. Believe me.
No work was done WFH and now with RTO good luck LBT and managers. Those who got away with a-s licking all these years of WFH should now be exposed. No more afternoon naps, 2 hour lunches, taking baby to doctor, dropping and picking up. Everyone is Fu---d
For everyone complaining that the backlash to RTO gets tiring, here's why it won't go away.
Outsourcing means they don't believe you can't do the job remotely.
Work has changed. You can do everything with an internet connection.
Housing prices and cost of living are insane, but America has a lot of undeveloped land where we could build affordable housing for decent costs if you didn't have to commute to one building just to be on your computer.
Teams are not co-located, so collaboration is a made up reason to be in the office.
Commuting and office buildings are huge carbon emissions contributors, so I dont want to hear from any of these companies what they think of the environment.
The world has changed. We should embrace it. Companies could get teams together for one offs. They can even have optional offices or offices for execs who love it so much, but the excuse that this is what we've always done just doesn't make sense anymore.
As of 8/26/25, Exelixis began laying off more employees, across departments, but seeming to zero in on remote employees. Exact number not yet known.
Be honest, HBAs want to silence voices questioning the current policy because the status quo because it benefits them. They don’t want the firm to revisit its current policy of allowing HBA roles based solely on geographic location because it might mean a change that disrupts their ability to work with little to no accountability wherever and largely whenever they choose without incurring the costs of commuting. They don’t want ANY disruptions to their sweetheart deal and will shout down anyone that even tries to advocate for a change.
HBAs shouldn’t point the finger at the firm while selfishly praising and protecting both explicitly and implicitly a two-tiered, unfair system that unilaterally benefits only them. If HBAs actually cared about the negative impacts of RTO on hybrid associates they would push the firm for a policy that treats all associates fairly. Instead, to preserve their own interests in keeping the current policy in place they push narratives of “isolation” and raise fears of lack of career progression (as if there is any for hybrid workers) to the forefront so the firm focuses on those manufactured concerns instead of crafting an equitable solution for everyone.
To me and many others, HBAs’ silence, fake concerns, and hostility to change the real problem are as much to blame for the firm’s stance as the c-suite.
If they truly cared, HBAs would push for a policy that is equal for all workers even if that means hybrid are paid more to offset commuting costs or barring that embrace accountability metrics like the badge swiping and other surveillance hybrid associates have to endure. I’ve seen none of that.
Anyone have info on what RTO will look like aside from it being implemented next year and which divisions will be at which location?
Last I heard. There was going to be another large RTO Wave in October.
Recently seen several people get changed from core location to remote status. They don’t seem to have a history of illness and have worked in the office for years. I thought this was an act of Congress to get done?
Anyone heard of possible force scheduled days in office?
I was on my weekly manager call this morning and the topic came up of division heads possibly setting forced days in office so that everyone is able to “freely collaborate” without needing to worry about trying to coordinate days in the office together.
In a nutshell the message today was "if you don't like the idea of RTO, then leave". If you want to be promoted and you don't live in a main hub location "too bad". In other words you are just a damn number. Tone deaf leadership to think that people want to move just to move. They should all be fired! They have done zero for this company and simply waste money. Many of us have been to this rodeo show before.
Notice went out that all central arkansas workers will have to spend at least one day a week in the office soon. The wording of the communication sounded like it will increase once they test the water.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91376683/fords-reimagining-offices-starting-with-a-historic-engineering-lab
This article should ask how much the employees love RTO! Papering over cracks. You can't polish a tu-d.
If you love wasting time and money commuting to an office so you can send emails and sit on teams calls all day, here are a few other things you can do:
Don’t complain. Back in my day you had to walk 10 miles in the snow uphill both ways to get a jug of hooch.
It’s called progress and evolution.
Execs are obsessed with pushing employees to accept change even when the employees are hurt by it. That is EXCEPT with RTO because the execs don’t get the ego boost of and control from being able to survey all that they command. We need to turn back progress in that case. Same goes for anything else that is more of a bottom up benefit than top down command.
RTO isn’t about collaboration or customers, it’s about control, ego, and cutting costs. Execs aren’t in the hubs 5 days a week, but we’re forced to waste hours commuting just to sit on Teams calls. Hubs are overcrowded, unsafe, and nothing gets done. Productivity is down, morale is dead, and the best people are leaving for better remote jobs. RTO isn’t saving AT&T, it’s accelerating the collapse.
Anyone else wonder if productivity has diminished with the 4 day a week requirement? Everyone was already burnt out from the ever growing workload. Add the commute and I continue to see people’s ability to care fading away.
It is getting harder to keep up as more people leave and the remaining team ends up doing twice the work. With RTO, things are only going to get much, much worse. Leadership really needs to address staffing before more talented people give up and walk out.
What's to keep employees from staying at home and boycotting RTO? My direct manager has worked from home the past 2 weeks with no explanation.
when do we expect return to office mandate to expand? some mentioned after labor day, but that seems too soon.
https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2024-07-26-execs-hr-admit-rto-mandates-are-meant-to-make-staff-quit#:~:text=A%20leading%20motive%20behind%20many,before%20their%20in%2Doffice%20counterparts.
RTO next week. Here we go!
Is the orlando office on 12150 research pkwy going to be a hub?
VBG specifically has been hosting VP/AVP level all hands calls where the leader will say “we expect you to be in full days. Talk to your manager if you need an exception”, yet Sam’s video and the VLC letter say “3 days with flexibility”, no mention of what flexibility’s definition is. Can this be enforced if it’s not in writing?
I am just going to leave this here:
Verizon
Rogers Communications
Tata Consultancy Services
TD Bank
Sherwin-Williams
Starbucks
Target
3M
HSBC
BMO
Ford
ING
UnitedHealth Group
Amazon
RBC
BlackRock
BNY Mellon
Uber
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Honda USA
IBM
Intel
Caterpillar
Qualcomm
Gap Inc.
Dell Technologies
Home Depot
Rogers Communications announced a new return-to-office (RTO) policy that will ultimately require all corporate employees to be in the office five days a week. The policy was issued on July 28, 2025 and will be phased in: starting October 1, 2025, employees must work four days per week in the office, and from February 1, 2026, the requirement rises to five days per week. Rogers, which employs about 24,000 people, said the phased rollout is meant to give workers and families time to adjust.
The update comes just two months after layoffs in May 2025, when the company cut roughly 2 percent of its workforce (around 2,000 jobs). While not officially tied, many recent RTO mandates across industries have been announced near the time of workforce reductions.
Compared to Canadian peers, Rogers’ new policy is among the strictest. RBC, Scotiabank, BMO, and TD Bank will require four days per week in-office later in 2025, while many other employers still follow three-day or hybrid models. Only a few large companies, such as CIBC and Brookfield Corporation, currently enforce five-day office mandates.
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Here are some companies that go through RTO right now. Almost all of htem have RTO thereads here on layoffs.com:
Microsoft, Amazon, UnitedHealth Group, JPMorgan Chase, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Humana, Accenture, International Business Machines, Charles Schwab, CDW, Medtronic, PepsiCo, Best Buy, CVS Health, State Street, Target, American Electric Power, Dell, Emerson Electric, Cisco Systems, Intel, Abbott Laboratories, Anthem, American International Group (AIG), Bank of New York Mellon, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, Truist, Verizon Communications, Starbucks, Nike, Fiserv, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), TransUnion, Illumina, AMN Healthcare Services, Cenovus Energy, SeaWorld Entertainment, Zoom Communications
Careful with how much time you are spending in the office.. They are watching and firing people who arent in the office "enough time". Keep in mind there is NO policy which outlines time in office but they will still fire you!
And it’s only going to get worse. Anything management can do to make it more miserable, more difficult to comply with, more absurd or outright humiliating, they’ll do it. Because no matter what they’ve claimed, the real goal of RTO has always been the same - to make you quit. Pure, distilled attrition.
I'm a manager in Manchester and I have just been told today that despite what the in office scorecard for flex employees is telling my team, they must start doing 4 days a week from 1st September (despite one week to go of the 4 week period). Seems pedantic and fussy to me.
Anyone else been told this? Not sure how will enforced.
Hey you guys, I received a call today that I will have to start working from the office again “soon” and I work in Risk. Has anyone else received such notice recently?
We all know this is the hot button issue right now. Management has created a downright demoralizing environment by their refusal to get with the times and allow more remote work. We’re now being told that (against HR policy) we need to be in 11 days a month no matter what. You were sick? Make up the day. On two weeks of vacation time? Make up the two weeks and add a day to the month. That means that even if you’ve gathered weeks of PTO and you want to go on a vacation and use 10 days of PTO you simply can’t because there are 20 working days in a month. I worked at another dinosaur bank just before coming here not long ago and even their RTO policy was less aggressive. I’m not sure why the obsession on being in office - are they just forcing attrition? Why continue to hire new talent if that’s the case as it is in my organization? Guess I need to dust off my resume again. This is getting ridiculous.