I mean the real point. Fighting over the desk every morning in dilapidated offices is not any reasonable person’s idea of a presentable, well organized and efficient workplace. I’m not a 22 yo intern to find this at least somewhat entertaining. By the time I settle down, I could’ve done a quarter of my work.
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I was hired full remote years before COVID. Since I'm being forced back to work, I'm going to be running a bitcoin mining rig tethered to my cellphone at my desk. If they wont pay me for the added expense of driving in, they'll pay a whole he-l of a lot more in electrical fees.
The real reason has been said in multiple different threads. Andy made a promise to Wall Street to increase our efficiency. We’re either cutting bodies or cutting buildings or in this case, both. There’s no need to carry under performing locations and the bank has far too much real estate out there sitting empty.
Bitter boomers on the way out still trying to cling to as much power as they can, not realizing they be gone soon but they leave us this chaotic mess they created.
@1grv+1tFfTkRj Yeah, the email also included some ‘jokes’ about how ‘no, this email is not about how you are all failing with leaving personal items behind in the drawers’, essentially backhandedly talking to all of us like we did something punishable by leaving a pen with our name on it in a drawer. Then after getting a bulleted list of how we are supposed to operate like robots at the office ‘spaces’, there was a line about how if we need to vent to the business manager about how awful this whole setup is, she’s ’willing to take gripes into consideration’. To say the email was patronizing is me being nice. Also apparently the office managers are going around taking videos of messes you might leave…so um, there’s that. 😂
I think the appropriate name would be boomer with kneepads on
Your "home" is where you sleep and eat. Your "office" is where you go to work. You get to go to work because you have a "job". If you don't show up for work at the office, you lose your job and you can no longer afford your home. This is the way it has been since the advent of white collar work. You have been the beneficiary of a temporary interruption of the expectation that you show up for work, every day. That interruption was not shared by all other working classes. Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, retail workers, cops and teachers are expected to show up for work. So are you. If you want a job that does not require you to leave your home, then you should find one. Those are somewhat rare in the financial services sector. Best of luck to you.
The OP question gives off a sense of entitlement and privilege to a job.
One of the termination docs states that it is not necessary to return peripheral equipment like monitors and keyboards. I brought mine back anyway. Not sure if it's true, but later heard it was all being stacked up to be destroyed. What a waste.
@ @1pjo+1tFfTkRj-the ‘throwing peripheral tech equipment in the trash’ just made my day. That is funny!
Old boomer mentalities, control, retaining buildings for public image, and justifying the costs of the buildings.
All I know is our group just got an email telling folks not to throw away their peripheral tech equipment in the trash at the Twin Cities location?! It made me laugh.
It’s collusion among all companies to keep real estate values up and local government benefits. I’m sure they also want people to just quit to avoid paying severance. The collaboration benefits and data security are straight up lies. I use my headphones all day and hardly have to talk to anyone outside of the occasional question or quick call. I guess they’ll keep wanting low survey scores not that they care. This company couldn’t care less about morale.
Even people that were hired as fully remote pre-Covid are being forced to RTO. And yes, I read comments like quit etc. In today’s job market? The company has gone back on the original terms of employment for the population that was hired as fully remote. And they wonder why survey results are tanking.
@1xzr+1tFfTkRj Now explain why they are forcing us to entire different cities to work than we were originally assigned, you smart alec. This is not right at all. If I knew that they will try to relocate me and force me to commute to dangerous cities that will take over an hour to get to and over an hour to get back, I would have never spent 10 years working here.
I understand not loving RTO but if you weren’t hired as fully remote I don’t understand how it a surprise. Companies get tax benefits when employees are physically located in whatever city the office is built in. When employees butts are in seats in that zip code, income taxes are paid from the employees income to that locality, which likely helps with what the company pays the locality tax wise itself. I’m no accountant but outside of wanting some attrition to avoid layoffs, that’s likely the reason. I’m sure if there were no actual documentable benefit, they wouldn’t do it. But they need one write offs to offset the costs of the huge office building spaces.
How many people say they can't return to work due to childcare? Meaning they actually didn't actually work when they are home. Productivity for a lot went significantly down. Yes some worked but a lot need to monitored. Unemployment is going up and the job market overall is dwendalling. I think everyone needs to wake up. Yes you will start getting terminated and unemployment benefits are not as great as they had been with COVID. Finding a new job isn't that great.
It’s designed to ruin lives.
Also it’s many peoples full time job to manage our real estate so they are always looking for excuses to change this or that.
Designed to make you quit so they don’t have to pay severance.
Also, they get tax break and have to much RE in some area,and they want people in office to revitalize certain locations /local economy to help their pals in the government . And because McKinsey told them this was the best way to get rid off expenses, I.e., no severance and less worker.
The lies about data security is an obviousl lie because you can still work 2days a week at home. Also, our friend in India have clients data.
Collaboration? Dude, I have my headphone on all day . No one I talk to is located in hub. I am on team all day
its designed to run people off