My one on one this morning was interesting. Was just informed that my office location is being changed effective immediately. Starting tomorrow I am expected to go to an office almost 30 miles away instead of the one I currently walk to each day. I bought my house because it was walking distance to the office
Aside from quitting or getting a new job, do I have any options to fight this?
They want to get rid of you guys. I’m not sure why this keeps coming as a surprise. It’s not like they haven’t been saying this for years.
This reminds me of my BiL. He started out working at a grocery store 30 hours a week. Then they cut his hours to 18. Then 10. Then 4. He finally got the message and quit. Incidentally, it’s 20 years later, he still thinks he’s super smart and super talented, and he’s still unemployed.
I didn’t like the office i was assigned to, so i used the guardian system to add access to a building i wanted to go to. Never been to my assigned office location.
It's not 1965 anymore, you aren't going to be at WF your entire career. You would have eventually had this situation. Now you just need to decide if you stay with WF or go work elsewhere.
correct, as of now any office will do, not just assigned office so continuing to go into your old office is probably fine for now as long as your manager/team aren't in the new office and wondering where you are. sometimes easier to ask for permission than forgiveness
Just keep going to the close building. All counts as RTO compliant anyway.
notice where it says all and not any, which is how I read it
"A change in your work location where all of the following occur: "
based on my interpretation not only would the new location have to be 20 miles from the old but also 40 miles from home. so if my old office was 30 miles north of my home and the new office was 19 miles north of that making me 49 miles from home I wouldn't qualify for severance since the two locations are less than 20miles apart.
plus, not all metros are created equally, in the bay area 10 mile change could add an hour to your commute.
They don’t care where you live or how hard the change is for you. My entire group was moved to a new location in a different city. This caused great difficulty for the majority. Not the group leader though. Suddenly she could walk to work.
Her response to the shock and dismay was to tell us to stop complaining because she didn’t want to hear it.
This was pre-Covid when having a job meant actually going to work.
Nope!
suck it up butter cup. they can move your location within 50 miles above your current distance to work. now if you have a medical condition that prevents you from traveling you could pursue that with your DR. good luck.
WF Benefits Book - looks like location to location changes (not home to location) has 20 miles max, otherwise, it's a substantial position change, eligible for severance.
Substantial position change
Subject to the ineligible changes described in the “Ineligible
changes” section on page F-5, you may be eligible for
severance pay under the Plan, if management changes your
existing position or you experience a position elimination and
are offered another position, resulting in one of the following:
• A change in your work location where all of the following occur:
– The distance between previous work location and the new
work location exceeds 20 miles (one way).
– The resultant commute (mileage) from home to the new
work location exceeds your commute to the previous work
location (one way).
– The resultant commute from home to the new work location
exceeds 40 miles (one way).
Dvv. Get a clue. They are moving employee out. Very obvious.
Maybe that building or space wasn't meant for you. Especially if it's a bank or WIM office for client facing people.
Submit a request to be transferred back to the closest building. People request building reassignments all the time. You may not get the reassignment but it doesn't hurt to try.
@wol why did you include pro-RTO propaganda when @OP stated, "I bought my house because it was walking distance to the office" How on earth did you get "I don't want to RTO" from that?
Pro Tip: They want you to quit
"I thought there was a 20 mile limit that HR or "whoever" made the decision of radius of commute? maybe others will chime in...."
It's 40 miles. And one person (a manager) that the bank would even do an "as the crow flies" calculation of that radius.
If it's only 35 miles away but a 2-hour commute, it'll suck, absolutely, but that's the way Wells rolls.
Take huge dumps non stop in the toilets there to clog them up and then flood them over in hopes the building closes.
I thought there was a 20 mile limit that HR or "whoever" made the decision of radius of commute? maybe others will chime in....
No. They can relocate you to any location as long as it is not more than 40 miles away from your house. During COVID people moved thinking they would be permanently remote and could live anywhere. Wrong. Wells Fargo can redo locations and you either go along with it or find another job. You will be unsuccessful fighting this.
Good luck