Audit back to the office tues, wed, thurs.
remote mon & Friday.
Let’s not forget. We all had additional hours added to our days w/o additional pay last year as well
This place just continues to disappoint.
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Inflation, particularly gas prices, makes return to the office too costly since raises are only 1%. I've started losing sleep again thinking about coming back to the office environment. The cost of working at Bny mellon (monetary and mental wellbeing) and lost time with family due to commuting has me strongly considering resigning in September.
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This is starting to remind me of 2019 when they tried to ban WFH altogether.
When you force everyone to commute upwards of 2 hours a day back into the office you’re going to get a bunch of people that stop trying, resulting in mediocrity. The best ones will find employment somewhere else. As someone with a long commute, you’re not getting my attention on anything prior to 8 am or after 5 pm. And if deadlines are missed because of transit issues in the morning, that’s on management.
@2roz, it was re-worked years ago in upstate NY with most employees being classified as "flexible" and working from home 2 or 3 days a week. Now they closed the Syracuse office which was 40% of our office space up here and expect to cram more bodies into Oriskany??? Why don't they save the effort and just move everyone to Pune now instead of over a few years. Or would the degradation of service be too obvious if it happened all at once?
2zqx will that corporate laptop get here September 2021 or September 2022?
Just put in a snow request for a bank laptop. Easy peasy!
Since required to be in the office 3 days and without a dedicated workstation, will the company give us a monetary allowance towards purchasing a laptop? I was willing to use my personal laptop when working remotely full time, but am not willing to commute 3 days with my expensive personal equipment that could be easily damaged on a crowded bus or subway.
How about people who travel for vacation right before September 7...will they need to quarantine 14 days before coming to the office? Will they allow those people who can prove travel to WFH during the 14 day quarantine?
Lots of good questions here. Hopefully management will see these and get answers to employees via an FAQ.
@2rrc ...another point about cleaning our workspaces: if i'm going to sit at a communal desk that I need to clean again every time it's my turn to use it, I want the cleaning supplies PROVIDED for me to use. In the time I've been at BNYM I've changed desks at least a dozen times over the years and have always had to bring in my own stuff when I do a deep clean of the space. It's not a big expense over the course of years, but if this is going to happen a couple times a week I want at least reimbursed for using them.
And if I'm going to be doing this, magnify that by how many thousands of other employees will want this, too.
Fair questions. Here's another one.
I will not show up 30 minutes earlier to sanitize and wipe down a desk, so is Todd aware he will need to allow employees leeway to log in 30 minutes after start time? I'm not sitting in a desk after the guy the day before picked his nose, went number 1 and 2 in the restroom without washing his hands, and then smoked before coming back to the desk, cracking his knuckles and ran those nasty hands on the chair arms and desk. Just saying, I need 30 minutes after I arrive to properly clean that grossness and I'm not coming in earlier to do it.
They plan on everyone coming in September 7. No phased approach like promised.
They aren't putting any safety protocols in place - with everyone in and getting reaclimated they can't possibly social distance properly. What about requiring negative covid test for unvaccinated people? The CDC and federal government require people to wear masks in airports, so should we also make masks mandatory with such a large number of employees being crammed into a confined space, especially when sharing conference rooms and desks that are not being sanitized between use?
If they don't want to require negative covid testing and masks, then why would they get to put a tracking device on my badge? The Gov and big tech companies can't track my movements and covid contacts without my informed consent so why can can BNYM (rhetorical question). BNYM can't predicate my employment on allowing them to track me...legal ramifications!
I can't wait until the 24th floor becomes a major superspreader event 3 days a week!
@1str They have building management reworking the open floor plan. They will undoubtedly make desk space smaller to crowd more people in the space. Working conditions will someday be similar to those of third world developing countries...cheap labor and inadequate space utilization (lacking space to work comfortably, lacking quiet space, lacking cleanliness such as being subjected to restroom smells and the like).
Comfort, concentration, job satisfaction, and morale all directly tie into productivity. Unfortunately, top of the house prefer to place us in an unfavourable work environment that will lead to stress and errors.
Managers were even deceived up until the last moment. No autonomy to decide which model would lead their team to be most productive. Does this exhibit our values and behaviors?
Do they even have room for everyone to show up on the same days?
Former TSG here. just wondering if Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday applies to TSG in NY or there is no arrangement announced yet?
Meanwhile, the least reliable employees, our India technology team is allowed less time in office and allowed to change their work hours. If you're onshore and thought it was a challenge to get ahold of offshore counterparts before, just wait.
This is a decades old flex arrangement. This is not flexibility. Saying one thing and doing another shows total lack of integrity. Don't put out an email to seem as though there are several options and then tie managers hands with a one size fits all arrangement. TS is also forced into 3 days in office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
It's going to be one large germ fishbowl.
BONY variant 2022 on the horizon.
Could be worse, could be in office Monday, Wednesday, Friday
What a complete and total contradiction to the email Todd sent out just about a week ago. My department says this mandate comes straight from him… Three days a week in the office. What weak leadership ……that Todd wouldn’t send out a correction to his previous email. This sounds awfully familiar… Shades of chainsaw Charlie
The whole company is going to be on this schedule come September. No flexibility will be offered whatsoever
I can’t wait to go back and sit amongst the toadies and sycophants who eat all the garbage they are fed by ‘upper level’ managey