What business problems do you encounter while working from home? Teamwork is very important to me and despite all the opportunities we have now, it is lost when we are not in the office. Working from home, we function less as a team and that makes my job a lot harder. So I can’t wait to get back to the office. I’m not saying WFH doesn’t have a lot of its advantages, but certainly this is a big challenge as well.
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Woke colored people will ruin it.
Not everyone works at 1400, either. Maybe the issue is there. I love my job. Sure, it's tough and even infuriating sometimes, but that's why it's called work and I am well compensated for it. You people who also started at the bottom doing manual labor or the equivalent of it generally appreciate the type of work we do for the amount of pay.
@4ehx, I think a lot of people miss interacting with people, coworkers, friends, allies, competitors, and just their normal life before, during and after work. Could be a fair amount of single people also that are all about the social environment. No big surprise to me why so many prefer to get back to life as usual.
There is definitely some vote manipulation happening here. Surely there can’t be a majority that want to go back to commuting and being herded up and down the anthill at 1400.
You never really appreciate obeying your boss until you become one yourself.
But I'm so much more efficient working from home. My boss isn't looking over my shoulder making me do what he wants me to do!
Laziness doesn’t need a specific location! It can be performed anywhere with ease!
I personally believe we should be back in the office and live there. The company should bring in comfortable cots so that you can be at your desk at all times. Leave the cafeterias open 24/7 and it will almost be like being on a wonderful cruise that will never end. Like I've always said you aren't really working until you have slept at work and worked 7 days straight. All those lazy snowflake teddy bears whining about needing time with family and rest are ruining this country. We live for the company so if you ain't willing to start living at the office then you need to git on out of here since you don't deserve the good times of working until you can barely stand! I tell people the company comes first then your religion and family. The only things I'd miss is about not having a life outside this company would be muddin' in my lifted truck and slamming back an ice cold beer once the job is dun. Thankfully the job will never be dun with this plan so the good times will be forever! Git them snowflakes out of here so the real workers can take over!
WFH makes great business sense. That is why Chevron and so many other companies are doing it and in fact imposing it on employees. The old days are gone.
It is very disturbing to think the work from home people may just get their way and pull this change off. It is only possible because in present times corporate executives have no backbone in setting policies. If only they had the same no nonsense attitude as when they implemented the dr-g testing policy years ago. Now they are so afraid that the work force will not like their policies. Perhaps the policy should be if you work from home you don’t get the bonus or long term stock options. Then we will see how hung up on work from home these little whiners are. This country was built on hard work and not people taking the easy way out.
WFH is here to stay, that’s for sure. Maybe hybrid for some.
WFH contributes to a reduction in fuel consumption! Never has the mileage on my vehicle been lower than during covid while stuck at home and unable to commute. We can’t let this continue now can we? Get back on the roads folks and back to your offices like good little worker bees and pump up fuel demand! Lower carbon? Bah!
I don't think I've read so many creative excuses to want to be left unsupervised to slack off and not have to be accountable for being productive as here. You guys need to work on not being so obvious. Just a tip. If you want a Work from home permanent job, why didn't you go get yourself one? Just wondering. At Chevron, and most other majors, we work in the office, unless we are in the field. Any more questions?
PMSL how much did you get paid to pose such a biased question
It must be all about you. Compared to executives time your pay is quite small and they really don’t mind you wasting your time sitting in a meeting all day long just to answer a few questions. But think of the possibilities for your career if you would just give it 150% effort instead of just enough to get by.
Face to face interaction died long before WFH came along. The millenials communicate by instant message mostly and some email, but rarely in person. A few dinosaurs prefer the office but mostly for nostalgic reasons. WFH is a huge increase in productivity because you don’t have to commute and can always multitask during meetings. Gone are the days of hours of in person meetings which require less than 5% of your actual input and participation. 8 hours of in person meetings might benefit from 30 minutes of my input. WFH I can do real work the rest of the t8me and listen for moments I am needed.
Probably no issues WFH except most are lazy, including the “leaders”. They have no clue on actual workload (and aren’t rewarded or accountable for cost efficiencies).
So even with the cutbacks, I know of so many people who are working way less than 40 hours/week and love their part-time job at full-time pay and benefits. With the agile mindset the company is touting, no one should be overworked. Too much work? Just re-prioritize, right?
When will Chevron have a clue? Instead of making managers accountable for continually “right sizing” their orgs, everyone operates status quo or builds up their empire. That’s why major reorgs happen every few years—when the bloat is finally recognized as being out of hand. Reactive vs proactive org management!!
Agree. How else do you have a dynamic organization without the interaction at the office. And you cannot have people coming and going during the week according to their own schedules. Those that really thing wfh has a place in the future should get used to less salary and benefits. The supply of great people who want wfh is at least double of those who will work at the office. Put in terms of GPA out of college. If in the past with work from the office the GPA cutoff was 3.2 the new cutoff would be 3.8 for hiring wfh people.
Work from home was meant to be temporary. Chevron’s success and efficiency requires about over 90% of its employees working in the office.
I agree that any team work issues are due to poor leadership and morale and not WFH. Good news is that it will be very flexible going forward and most people will not be returning to an office very much. Those days are gone!
You people seem to think you only have to work 40 hours a week. Wrong,wrong,wrong. As a professional you work at the office to interface locally and then work on nights and weekends to interface internationally, If you don’t like it don’t work here.
Many of us have been working in teams geographically spread out for some time. For us there is nothing to gain from being in the office, apart from a change of scenery.
I’m getting fed up of the change of tone coming from management regarding work from home. In the peak of the pandemic WFH was being praised and management recognised that we were thriving. Now we are being told that work is a ‘contact sport’ so we need to be in the office. Chrvron is very behind the times. Other companies have already come out with their new flexible working policies.
Much of my team is not in my location so making calls from the office versus at home makes no difference. The loss of teamwork seems to be less of working from home and more about low morale and frustration at least from what I've seen. The company needs to have at the minimum, especially for people in spread out teams, a hybrid where people go into the office a few days and work from home others. If we want to compete for talent with companies that allow wfh permanently its a must. Also the 9/80 needs to be maintained.
My manager is in Houston. I am in SR. Half of my team is in Singapore. I wasn't gaining much by sitting in my office on a call with Singapore at 7pm vs. taking that call from home. The only thing I was missing before was my daughter's bed time during my commute home from the office.
Thank you for providing that perspective. I am sure many people feel this way but are afraid to admit it for fear of losing something (wfh) that was only supposed to be temporary. Hopefully management has the backbone to direct the teams back to the office.