Saw a comment about new RTO being announced in Feb, 3x/week, all current remote employees being forced back in? Anyone have more details?
For Woodland Park office closure and now reporting to Jersey City by July, will those >50 miles be allowed full remote?
In my team there were definitely no slackers all through Covid. We worked our butts off. Yes, I had Netflix on some days. Internet radio on other days. For me it was more about background noise, so I didn’t feel alone. When I’m in the office I have them on too (with noise cancellation and volume low) to drown out noise from all the people on calls with teammates in locations in other sites. Like I said my team has daily responsibilities. It’s up to us to manage our time to get it done. It’s very noticeable if someone is slacking off and not getting it done every day. If some other team is having issues with slackers, it should be up to their manager to address the situation not some invalid tracker. Believe me I’ve had to address staff issues on numerous occasions in the past and make difficult decisions. Bny needs to allow managers to make the same calls and not just force it on everyone who can be trusted to do their work. There’s at least 1 day each week I’m in the office alone. What difference does it make if I’m home alone or in the office alone? The difference is the company is using this as an excuse to lay people off and to put them in bad standing first so no severance is paid. It really has nothing to do with performance. There’s a higher goal.
Quit giving them free time… Quit logging in early and late. It’s not gonna save you from their layoffs.
Productivity down the drain? you must be joking.
2020 was the busiest year for many because with so many places closed down, no one went on vacation and everyone had nothing to do but work. I remember getting invited to calls at 6 am EST and having some at 8 pm EST. Thankfully not on the same day!
Maybe this was justifiable because no one was commuting so people were more available, but as RTO was starting to ramp up, the work never really went away. Layoffs commenced as soon as 2021 hit and kept going indefinitely. There were no big cuts, but people slowly started disappearing leaving the survivors to have more responsibilities or volumes of work.
Now with RTO mixed in, people are working full days in the office, potentially with more distractions, yet they're still logging on late at night when they come home to finish something else. It's not sustainable and shame on anyone who thinks a lot of us are just watching Netflix all day.
All this to get 0% raise and a $500 bonus.
Everyone assumes that WFH involves slacking because we monitored WFH for two full years in COVID and productivity went down the drain. People bragged about watching Netflix all day. Then they wanted a month off for Canadian wildfires.
One would think that our employees are dedicated and responsible but some bad apples ruined it for all of us.
Now get back to work.
Does the ‘greater than 50 miles’ ever actually allow you to be based at home?
Why does everyone think WFH means slacking? My job has many daily deadlines and periodic deadlines. If I was home not doing anything it would be noticeable right away. The only reason we would have to be in the office is to manage our staff if we don’t trust them… but guess what? All the staff level work is in India. We have no one to manage in person anymore. The job has changed. Times have changed. India still has tons of issues I need to solve every second of the day, but that’s all handled over Teams or over the phone. What difference does it make where I’m located? A few years before 2020 we were allowed to WFH a couple days a week no questioned asked since we had no staff as an incentive for the future. Only now several years after the pandemic ended and we’ve been doing WFH time for half a decade is the company making a big stink. They just need to trust their senior managers to manage their managers lol. And all you aholes who think this is slacking and who haven’t worked since you retired 15 years ago need to get a life, and go watch Jeopardy. You have no idea the nonsense we’re dealing with from all the “innovation and automation!” We strongly need all that mental health help they added to our benefits this year!
They’re not trying to control you. They only want their workers to go back to work and get their jobs done. Todd babied all of you over COVID and you all got spoiled. Now you think that you’re running the Bank. You aren’t.
Failing to report to work should be met with dismissal for cause.
This never happened. A lot of people here willfully hear only the parts of a sentence that they want to hear and then ignore the rest.
Look at all of the slackers endlessly trying to game RTO with badge swipe schemes, home routers, etc.
Hope that Robin can weed the garden and then reward the loyal dedicated workers.
1qkb yes!
Main problem is that the open offices are just terrible and are not a conducive work environment at all. Really more like a call center rather than a bank office. I’d get more done at the local Starbucks as it is less noisy with fewer interruptions.
Also I find it hilarious that BNYM wants me to save the environment by not allowing me to print but now wants me to drive my 8 cylinder SUV into the office several days a week.
Make no mistake EVERYTHING this company does is about $ and cutting expenses as current management has NO idea how to grow revenues. It’s clear they really don’t care at all about employees!
Some people were hired in the last few years to jobs that were described to them as based at home and fully remote. To say they aren't living up to what they signed up for is disengenuous. For them, it is the company that has done the about face.
@gyi — nobody is “anti-work” and nobody is “stealing hours”.
On the contrary — Most of us are ok being in the office for 8 hours getting paid to do absolutely nothing.
If every single line of business was busy — It clearly wouldn’t make sense for employees to leave mid afternoon.
That’s not the case.
The case is, there is not enough tasks to complete. So you have a bunch of employees being useless in the office.
At least when you’re home, you are useful.
Total rumor, but also heard bonuses were lower if you were amber.
Full time people, full time.
Or take the high road and apply for fully remote jobs.
What a fragile and delicate workplace
Nobody’s trying to control employees. Employees are trying to control management and the appropriate response is termination for cause (No SUB).
Fun and games are over back to work.
We are ALREADY at 3 days per week, where have been?
I think that Robin has to put the hammer down and displace employees who do not come in to work. It gets the slackers and there should be no SUB for those who self-terminate their own jobs.
You folks are so misguided.
Yes, eventually we will go back to 5x a week.
Bizarre ->> It seems that they’re trying to control us slowly but surely
They are gently moving you towards the requirements of the job which you applied for and we’re hired to do.
“First with badge swipes. Now with IP tracking. Now badge swipe to match IP tracking and checking how many hours we are logged in the network.”
You people are simply anti-Work. Take the high road and apply for a remote job. Stop trying to steal hours from the company. If I were Robin I’d have everybody in ASAP. This is the least dedicated employee population in the history of the Bank.
Comm expected from HR:
One amber on RTO reporting=written warning, second offense=termination
Ha. Before going after BAH folks, they need to weed out those that on paper are in office but are effectively ghosts.
I keep hearing eventually we will go back to 5x a week.
It seems that they’re trying to control us slowly but surely.
First with badge swipes. Now with IP tracking. Now badge swipe to match IP tracking and checking how many hours we are logged in the network.