What strikes xerox hard in a few months is the realization by most of our customers that they can actually function pretty well remotely while saving money doing so.
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My HP laser jet, manufactured Decades ago, is supporting my WFH home activities just fine. Includes everything you expect from a MFD, ability to fax a resume, copy severance papers, etc
So nonsensical. My teams are pretty well geographically distributed. I could not care less where they work - home, office, coffee shop, park, whatever. Get your work done, collaborate well, bebprofessional, be available on Teams, and keep the background noise on calls to a minimum. If you have to micromanage your team and force them to work in then office you are in the wrong job or you have staff issues. Get with the times and embrace it. Or perish.
I worked for a micromanager for several years during my tenure at my core. He absolutely did not like me working from home. Wouldn't allow it. He could not stand the idea of not knowing what I was doing. Even though I no longer report to him, guess who still makes it a habit to still "check up" on me every day? Bleh. Glad I'm at home.
Manager's are noticing that those who contribute nothing in the office can do exactly the same from home. I may be bitter being a customer facing "essential" employee being exposed to risks daily and bringing heck only knows home with me... I will never forgive Xerox for putting me in harms ways by non essentials safe at home with their families...it s—s big time... and for the record we have noticed the vibe in most Xerox communications honoring those WFH..... desperate manager's trying to justify their own existence..... randomly replying to nonsense mails and asking dumb questions to feel important..we see through your B.S.....
I truly believe the reason some managers are skeptical or unsupportive of remote work is that they are ones who abuse it. My VP worked remote in a different state. Flew to the office once a month for 1 day if that. The rest of the time was at conferences working her personal brand, unaware that her personality and lack of expertise were really damaging the Xerox brand.
As a manager, I found my staff accomplished more working from home than at the office but my own manager was distrustful of my willingness to have an open policy on work from home, as were the various VP's we had. I agree the culture will probably revert back to office bound employees.
Xerox Micro managers have always been distrustful of allowing their employees to work from home ....would rather have workers in the office under their thumb.
“Forward thinking Xerox” has come up with this:
- Ignore SOHO
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direction to all IT personnel
(1) relocate
(2) must work in the office - Stop work on smart packaging monetization
- stop work on cloud, keep data centers humming
Waiting for the “we could never have predicted this” spouting off, similar to what the IT industry said when they recognized offshoring wasn’t working as expected.
Everyone in my office is capable of working remotely, yet they make such a big deal whenever somebody requests to work from home.
If anything Xerox should be paying us more, I am using my electricity and my internet
I can do about 75% of my job remotely, but I still need machine time to validate my work.
Exactly. I’ve said it now for weeks. Companies are wasting their money housing employees when in reality most jobs can be done from home. Why pay for rent or lease when you can use your employees’ housing for it?