We do not collaborate and when we go in to WHQ we cannot find a seat so our team is spread out everywhere. Half my team is out of state so I see no sense in commuting all that way for nothing. How do we make them see a happy employee is more productive.
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"Return to Office" is a joke to us CAD guys and engineers who work with suppliers that are not located in Dearborn. Come to work so you can have meetings with suppliers via your lap top. Drive to Dearborn so you can have a WebEx at 5am because the supplier is located in Europe. Does this make any sense?
We have our entire team in the office on Thursday's, the other day is a float day per your own schedule, garage, lab, etc.
Personally I am ok with whatever arrangement works for the team or teams you collaborate with.
It was easy to see even in Mar 2020 that sending EVERYONE home without a plan was and is an ongoing disaster.
No CEO's or VP's etc. had enough nerve to resist or even publicly question, "Why?", and it was downhill from there as we let Dr. Fauci run Ford Motor Co.
Attrition is at an all time high. They can't find enough competence to backfill what they've lost. The power is in the GSR / LL6 hands. What is they just don't go in? The company is already failing. This critical group should play hardball and refuse to go in. What will they do? Go bankrupt faster?
RTO is a joke. Our LL4 is making RTO mandatory because the LL3 walked into a team room and didn't see a mass of people working. So, we are being told to go in and sit in a conference room and work. Most inefficient thing ever. So many distractions randoms popping in, casual conversations, music and the best: getting kicked out of the room twice because another team needed to meet with a VLD. I was at best 30% efficient. What a freaking joke. To think I wasted commute time and gas money. Ford and its leaders are a clown show.
@1yds+1l1rqcx0 From the web:
"Hotel seating, also known as “hoteling” is a term first coined in the 90s. It refers to office seating in which employees do not have a designated work space. Instead, staffers reserve a seat on days they plan to be in the office. Work spaces are typically designed to encourage collaboration; technology is integrated into work spaces for easy connectivity, screen sharing, etc."
I have heard also "hot desk" when there is no reservation system. Another variant is "Agile desking". In one company they used "floaters" or "floating desk" because there were a bunch of non assigned seating areas in the halls, for visitors from other offices, where the desks were floaters (attached to the wall, no legs), so after the idea of "hot desking" expanded later on in the company, managers used to call "floaters" to all the non assigned space (even when desks had legs). Weird, I know, but we also know managers have no clue, right? :)
what hotel. I did not hear that. maybe reopen the FMCC building next to whq. whole thing is pointless
RTO or SIRP.
It seems that's our choices.
I'll take the latter.
@OP. Let me explain you how things work at Ford. There is not one original idea among all the BoD and C suite. Therefore, they tend to copy the behavior of other companies. Right now, they are copying the RTO with no understanding at all of the consequences of it. Therefore, they can not properly evaluate it.
Of course, as the sh-t rolls down the hill, all the LLxs instruct their respective LLx+1s to execute the wish of the C suite. As most of the LLxs are Yes Man, and bring no value to the company, they are not going to contradict the C suite mandate and risk their jobs.
Of course, what the C suite missed in their ignorance, is that we don't have enough office space for all the employees. Therefore, the LLxs came with the hotel idea (which sucks). Yes, we are not going to be able to do much at the office; yes, it is a waste of time; yes, it removes the spontaneity of collaboration and delays tasks. However, between the stupidity of the C suite and the cowardly LLxs, we are condemned to it.
Have you heard of the term "Potemkin village"? That's what we are doing now. The LLxs just want to keep the C suite happy, and they'll try to give the appearance of the offices always full, even when real work suffers. After all, we, NA employees, are going to be replaced to cut costs. Don't you know we are to blame for all those billions in losses, even when management are the culprits?
So take it easy. We'll be back to the office, even if doesn't make sense. Plan to lose that day of work at the office, and then socialize, have fun and postponed your deadlines accordingly on how many days at the office you'll have in between. Your best chance to minimize your RTO would be your LL6, if it is a nice, honest person. Still, remember the LL6s are just a glorified GSR with a car lease. They are very limited in their actions.
They don’t care if people don’t want to RTO.
What groups/areas are requiring RTO? I’m only in the office when I need to work in one of our labs.