Monday and Friday always WFH, 9/80 remains, in–office Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Good or bad?
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This is a sad comment that some people think posters on this site are Oxy employees. Doesn’t the company have an anonymous blog inside the firewall. Isn’t that what you want. Some message board that has been run through the purification committee. That way you get the management view and not what a reasonable person from the outside would understand based on what they know and understand from previous company behavior. You people with less than 10 yrs of experience do not know the truth.
Very well said immediately below!
There is no indication per the email that management is only doing this on a temporary basis. It was worded as this is the plan going forward. Stop spreading rumors, this is permanent until we hear otherwise and it’s unlikely that we will based on what I read. Some people just aren’t happy with the fact they won’t have as much opportunity to micromanage so they are hoping this goes away. Y’all can retire already.
I don’t know how ant times “my VP” has been totally disconnected with what the company is really up to. The go–forward plan at Oxy is tightly controlled. No one would lie to you but they may not have all of the information.
The entire industry isn’t going to ever be the same way it was before covid and some of these boomers just can’t accept it. I’m in management and my VP said this plan is here to stay even long after covid is gone.
Historically Oxy has lots of bags of money that they can dole out without any logical basis.
Sucks. Oxy was still able to pay 50% bonuses despite Covid and oil crashing. What is going back to the office going to gain????
They don’t care about turnover. Besides, when the entire industry gets back to pre–covid work schedules you won’t have a better to go.
Stop spreading rumors that hold no merit. Oxy isn’t going to go back on this hybrid plan it would be horrible for turnover. Sucks to suck, boomers!
Oxy did the right thing for a transition plan. For a long term plan I think they will be going back to pre–covid schedules. They just won’t tell you that the plan is going to change back at some point.
Not true. Obviously there will be some groups who are identified as not being eligible for WFH, but it won’t be up to individual managers.
Before everyone gets excited...while it does seem like a great compromise, I’ve already heard that managers will basically dictate which teams can follow the BWP and which will not. If your boss is a ‘everyone needs to be in the office’ old school thinker, then you’ll be back in the office full time.
I’m way more productive working from home. Way less distractions than the office and I work longer hours after not sitting in traffic 2 hours a day. The slackers at home are the same slackers that just browse the internet all day at the office. Working in one place or another isn’t going to change your drive and what you get done. The anti wfh people need to get a life.
Oxy did the right thing here. Hybrid allows the best of both worlds. The anti wfh people are so ticked below but guess what, it wasn’t your call, so if you don’t like it, quit, like you keep telling everyone else to do. Seriously, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
@eqk+1, of course the office will be open on Monday and Fridays. It’s open now if you want to come in. Many people are already working in the office.
The 9/80 should have no part of this work schedule. BP did it right.
This is really stupid if the point is to operate in a covid environment. Unless everyone has the vaccine you won’t be that safe if everyone is in the office 3 days a week. So will Oxy require everyone to get the vaccine? Perhaps those without the vaccine will take the stairs up to their offices. You can social distance on the fire escape stairs.
I don’t see how this will work unless the company completely isolates itself from the outside business world on work from home days. Now it seems to work but once the other companies get cranked up on a full schedule not being able to meet because people are at home will cost through delays in agreements, etc. The business world will not put up with virtual nonsense after covid. How are you going to run a one week long training class. I guess it will be only three days which limits the quality of the training. . And there are some classes that need to be done face to face. Seriously, beyond covid what is the point of all this work from home c––p except to satisfy the really spoiled people. Get rid of all those proposing work from home long term. Even two days a week is too much. Managers and executives would probably agree here.
Re–read the email. There will be 3 days (Tues, Wed, Thurs) in the office. Every Monday you will work from home. Every Friday that is NOT a 9/80 you will work from home.
Does anyone know if on the work from home days the entire building will be closed off? What if you need to have a physical meeting on that day. What about the status of the reception area downstairs. Will Oxy look like it is closed for business on those days?
Great policy in general, but it is not yet clear when it will actually start. Will Greenway and Woodlands be treated as separate work locations? Will one be required to go in sooner? What is the probability of The Woodlands going back June 1?
What a joke of an outfit. Changing your policies for the sake of the millennial whiners. For shame.
Maybe Denver and Colorado should charge a tax for all those SUV’s heading up to the mountains every weekend pulling trailers and burning lots of gas. More people are running up there on the weekends than to work on a weekday.
Denver needs to focus on making itself safe again before it can start telling companies what they can and cannot do with their workforce.
Should be great in Denver. Denver is pressuring large companies to do something about commuting. Cut commuting as much as possible. This is a good response to that mandate.
Seems like a good compromise to me. COVID is a hoax anyway. Time to get back to work.
@jzb We should just ignore Fauci and Hidalgo and decide that if we're all vaccinated (and everyone can get the shot now easily), nobody needs to wear masks ever.
Look at the quality of people working for Oxy. Is it any surprise a number of people are unable to properly comprehend and understand the details on which days people will be able to work from home?
The new proposed schedule is great but returning to the office should hold off until masks are no longer required.
Why would you still have 9/80. They should have taken that away like BP. With not as many commuters you don’t need to give the extra day off. Oh and don’t think that people are actually going to put in 9 hours a day now. It is very disappointing how CEOs have become like limp noodles with no backbone. You don’t need the spoiled generations telling you what to do. If they don’t like in the office then they should resign. It truly is disgusting.
This is an interim solution during the transition between COVID and no COVID. Eventually they will make Monday’s and the one Friday work from the office. You will be back to the old pre–COVID schedule before you know it. Enjoy it while it lasts.
For the poster below, do you think this is enough to retain talent? What type of talent? Technical or managerial? In short, what is keeping people here at all? (Genuinely curious, not meant to be snarky at all.)
They aren’t going to retract it. The reasons they are doing it have nothing to do with covid and everything to do with work life balance and retaining talent. I think this was the right move and I applaud Vicki for doing this.
I say it is "Great" and not just "Good". Before the pandemic I would have never thought this could happen with Oxy or our industry, Super nice that we get to keep our Friday off. If you don't like it find something better, and good luck with that.
The person commenting several posts below is clearly not very bright. The email says we work from home every Monday and we also work from home on the Friday that is not our Friday off. The 9–80 remains so on the other Friday we are off from work anyway. I personally love this!
This is incredible and we can't ask for more. Imagine when things go back to normal and you still get to work from home on Mondays and Fridays, plus you retain your 9/80 Friday. I still can't believe it and am expecting them to retract.
If everyone would take out the time to read the email it says 3 days in office every week. Monday and Friday from home. Only MONDAY on 9/80
With more than 2 hours of daily commute, I definitely want more time wfh. But the current decision is acceptable. This would be unimaginable before COVID.
Based off the email we will still have 9/80. It clearly states only Mondays during weeks containing 9/80. Meaning the other week will be Monday and Friday from home
It looks like the work from home discussion is finally dead on this board. Cheers for the company in not letting people work from home 100%.