Was anyone here around when Chainsaw tried to take away the work from home option? What got him to change his mind? Dealing with the same BS at Wells now, in the middle of a pandemic. Any advice?
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2019/03/07/BNY-Mellon-work-home-Charlie-Scharf-layoffs-England-email/stories/201903070119
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The details explained about the UK legalities are correct. But Charlie does not make decisions based on what is legal or ethical, including driving fabrication of reviews and forced ranking to increase the number of layoffs without having to pay by claiming dismissal for cause.
The work from home story is that the evening before the Financial Times in the UK was going to press with a story on Charlie's elimination of work from home for UK employees who were bringing a major lawsuit in response, Charlie was ordered to reverse the policy that same evening to avoid another public embarrassment and lawsuit. The story never made it to press.
What can you do? Press coverage and class action lawsuits same as the UK.
Charlie is gone, yet our company is still feeling the effects of his short time here. Best of luck with the guy, you need it!
I still remember my phone blowing up with the news.....and the joy I felt.
The UK problem for Charlie was compounded because it especially targeted women so looked bad. But the main problem was that it was not legal in the UK.
Charlie follows the same playbook wherever he goes. Same story....
Ask him when he's going to move to the west coast instead of working remotely.
When he did it to us, I just kept doing what I was doing, managing my work like the professional they hired. If he wanted to change the terms of my employment, he could lay me off.
The UK region has employment contracts (the U.S. is employment at will). Charlie's cronies failed to research this before attempting to roll back remote arrangements. He would have been required to provide advance notice for employees in the UK who were based at home. Part of that disclosure would have required the company to allow any employee in the UK adversely affected an option to leave the company with full Sub payments. There would have been a very large exodus of employees in the UK and a walkout from employees in the US regardless which way he moved forward. It was a public embarrassment for the company, but could have been worse if he tried moving forward. His only option was to abandon the elimination of remote working.
As for the previous poster, the push to return to in person employment has no effect on BNY Mellon. The impact on the economy is specific to functions that could not be performed remotely. Examples are the education and restaurant industries. Don't let management feed you a BS line about necessitating return to the office as part of boosting the economy. We can, and should, be given the option of remaining fully remote.
It was only because things got ugly in the UK - as per the attachment. Really ugly.
There is going to be pressure on the CEO’s to get people back in the office to kickstart the economy. That’s another layer of complexity that will make it even worse.
Beat case - hope for a hybrid solution.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bank-bny-mellon-sc-aps-plans-to-ban-staff-from-working-from-home-a4085016.html