Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

@mm+1jqc09xz4

Sat/Sun do NOT count as in-office days if they are not your regularly scheduled workdays.

@mm+1jqc09xz4

I work at a customer contact center (call center), but I am not in any of the roles you mentioned (customer service, branch, network admin, data ops, etc). We have folks who work Sunday-Thursday schedules too.

As far as my manager has explained our policy, I can choose any 3 days of my scheduled week to work in the office. I usually go Thurs/Fri/Sat because there are less people in the office and less traffic.

I don't see why they wouldn't count a badge-in on Saturday if it's a day you're scheduled to work. There are other people at my site in different roles who also work Saturdays or Sundays. It seems like the RTO policy can vary among groups. We have (or did have) some teams that worked 1 week in office, then next week they WFH.

If you are badging in on a Saturday. but it's not a day you are scheduled to work, I could see why your manager wouldn't count that, depending on how closely your manager tracks days and pays attention. My manager's boss is a real hard-a$s, and she is very clear that badging in on days you aren't scheduled to work doesn't count unless you are flexing your schedule that week. My manager goes over our personal RTO report with us in 1-on-1's at least once every 2 months or so.

Twice I left my headset in the office and popped in over the weekend to grab it. Imagine my surprise when my manager tells the team how “high” my in-office average days are! I didn’t connect my laptop at all those few times but I still got credit for being in the office. Our office is only looking at badge swipes right now but you better believe they know how many hours you are connected, every keystroke you make and your working location.

I get and review the reporting

1. tracking is done by both badging and network connection
2. the current reporting is a yes/no. either you were in the office or you weren't - hours don't show yet. lots of rumors on this board but so far - nothing on the report
3. PTO and other excused absences (business travel, jury duty, volunteering) are counted as in office
4. reports do show if someone is not at their assigned location >50% of the time.
5. if managers don't stay on top of people who are not meeting requirements... the managers are putting themselves at risk. This includes both days in the office and going to the designated office
6. there are ways for managers to grant exceptions for short term circumstances (defined as <30 days) These must be documented in workday, and the person will still show as in violation, but they will check that the documentation is there. Abuse of this discretion will reflect on the assessment of the manager. for situations more than 30 days but less than 6 months these have to be approved by an OC member and if approved then the individual does not show as in violation in the reporting. As you might imagine, the need for OC approval means that not many of these are requested.

I meant @m3 below

Thank you KT. I am Mon-Fri non branch, non customer service, non call or data center, not Tech database admin . Hence asking if Saturday or Sunday badge-in counted toward 3 days a week. Last question: Since you mention Tue to Sat duty, looks like you have special hours to support customer, call center, service, network admin, etc. Hence they allow Sat badge-in to be counted. Is that true?

@kt+1jqc09xz4

I am scheduled Tuesday-Saturday. I go into the office on Saturdays and it counts toward the RTO req. I briefly had one issue where it looked like I wasn’t going on Saturdays, but it turned out to be a reporting issue than got fixed.

following weekend RTO badge question.

Do Saturday Sunday badge-in counted for non branch employees. I ask because I can make up for workday remote due to childcare or other reasons. traffic is another reason. Thank you

Here is the funny thing. How much does WF want to pay for badge in badge out log in here log in there and then have a Power BI report. I can barely get the reporting we need so if this type of micromanaging and reporting is what WF prioritizes then someone should fire the whole HR financial systems team. someone call Elon. I don’t like the guy but he may want to give some suggestions here

: @aa+1jqc09xz4

You don't always get what you want. I "expect" Hudson Yards not to be full of insufferable c##ts, and that hasn't worked out for me either. That's life. They, and RTO, can su-k it.

All managers have a dashboard that shows your office activity using both badge swipes and log in data. This is not new. If managers don't coach their employees, HR sends warning letters to the manager and employee. So, your manager can't just ignore it all.

I my office, I think they track toilet paper use and the smell of cabbage. Is europe running out of TP?

As the post above mentioned, they are starting to crack down on non-assigned locations this year. I expect time in office to begin this performance cycle / early next year.

@a9+1jqc09xz4

Is correct.

And basically if you manager is cool or doesn't care.. swipes is all that matters for now

If a manager suspects "time theft" they can put in a request with HR/CM to get a report of your badge swipes and windows log in times. The badge swipes give the date and time of when the badge was used. Just keep flying under the radar until you're told differently.

keep doing what your doing until your manager tells you to explain and/or do something different

We have been told there is an expectation if being in the office a “full” day meaning over 7 hours. Nothing has appeared in writing though. We have been told there is tracking being conducted. Also nothing in writing.

In my LOB at least, there is a dashboard that managers have access to that calculates a 13-week rolling average of days in-office. That rolling average is expected to always come back at least 3.0. Any badge-ins or any amount of time connected to the network at a work location counts as an in-office day. Any days where 4+ hours PTO or holidays also count as one. There is also a flag indicating if someone’s in-office days are at a work location other than the one they are assigned to for a percentage above a certain threshold, I think 50%.

We have also heard that higher level execs have access to some sort of tracking for actual time in-office. No hard numbers as far as expectations for hours have been communicated yet. However, I will warn that no expectations regarding the flag for working at non-assigned locations had been communicated either, and yet it was used as justification this recent performance cycle to knock employees who had been recommended by their managers for 4s and 5s down to 3s, despite no prior warning. So just speculating, but I would not be surprised if time in-office was eventually employed in the same manner.

Make sure you badge in. That is all that seems to count for now.

I don’t think we have yet to have an answer though. I saw it depends on LOB or OCIO.

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