Thread regarding Ford layoffs

We've been told not going back to office before 2021.

My neighbor works from home, also babysits at the same time, along with lawn and garden maintenance. It works for her.

Never

Maybe Jim will offer free Steelcase home furnishings to attract his ideal workforce instead of a new campus.

Layoffs will be so easy without the awkward fill one box and leave routine. Management will handle it by email.

Quick/easy/efficient.

Someone mentioned the clearing your desk out thingy. Think they may be onto something here. Product push followed by launch phase means an opportunity for efficiency gains. They certainly do not have the $$$$$ to do both product and launch. Launches require intensive capital as do product development blitzes.

I can’t wait to go back to the office. I am tired of seeing that my boss has time to rearrange the background items in his mansion home office (with the million dollar mortgage) while I am doing the work he takes credit for!

I do not know of anyone at Ford regardless of age who likes or approves the open office format the company selected. To take away our desk and an area with enough room to work and trade it for a table squeezed together with three other people with tables and no storage space is a terrible work arrangement. They even took away individual garbage cans. Every time you want to throw something away you have to get up and walk over to the community garbage can or you let it pile up on your table until the next time you get up from your seat. I hope the money they are saving with the cleaning crew was worth it.

First time seeing the table set up it was apparent cold & flu season would easily spread within this office set up let alone what a devastating virus could do with a bunch of people squeezed next to each other. Now they are taking our assigned tables from us and going to some sit wherever you want set up. Now we will have to carry everything we need to work. We won’t know exactly where people are located, so what is the point of going in to work. It’s easier and more efficient to work from home with an established work space.

What level does someone have to be at to get an actual desk with sufficient space & storage in a company run by Hackett? He did not have auto experience before he was hired, but he did spend 30 years at Steelcase an office furniture company. It is amazing that he can’t even get the office layout right at Ford.

How much worse could the covid inspired Ford open office be than the current open office layout?
Version one of open office layout blew big baby chunks.
The new improved version two blew big baby chunks.
Version three was in progress before WFH order, the prototype blew big baby chunks.

It is humorous as each version there was “extensive Employee surveys” the results of which were ignored. Followed by PR campaign to convince employees the open office layout was wonderful, followed by committees to study why employees hate the office layout, followed by more employee surveys ....

Anyone else concerned that this desk clear out will make it easier to reduce the workforce in coming months?

Screw it - Just work the rest of your career from home. No need to ever visit Dearborn again

We moved out of our building two weeks ago in preparation for open seating re-work. It will be completed by late August or early September. My understanding is that for the remainder of the year we will continue to work from home as much as possible. Sometime in the beginning of next year Ford will reassess the work situation by building and determine what or if any changes will be made.

I have seen the new seating plan and my goal will push hard to work from home as much as possible.
This new design will take a long time for most employees to get use to, regardless of age.

That all depends on when your building will be reconfigured for Covid by Ford Land. Our building is going to be set up with open seating (ugh) after we clear out our desks during the first half of September. But that reduces the seating by about 2/3 because every other seat and every other aisle will be taped off. So even if everyone wanted to come back to work on-site later this year, there wouldn't be room for everyone.