Let the waive of attrition begin.. feel terrible for the already under staffed and demoralized recruiting team
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home
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Folks, this is ONLY my opinion. I feel Nike employees' voices, especially in WHQ, are largely ignored in terms of what we want for work arrangement. Nike's HR sent out a survey to "select" employees to gather feedback. Why not ALL employees?
Read this regarding how Apple's employees are responding to their CEO: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/apple-employees-have-written-a-letter-expressing-their-frustration-over-tim-cook-s-order-to-return-to-the-office/ar-AAKLgLG?ocid=msedgntp
@1ev great to hear it worked for you. I tried and in my situation I was told by director, sr director, vp and bphr my work location remains WHQ. I was a U level employee and a recent JDI. Nevertheless, no exception. How does it make me feel about people getting exceptions? Not great. I left. I am in charge of my career and life, not the shoe company.
@1ev, true; it is not difficult to have the conversation and do it professionally. On the other hand, not everyone has an understanding and supporting manager as you do, so the outcome may well be much different.
This isn’t difficult.
Talk to your manager. That’s what I did. I told her in a polite and non-confrontational manner that I have no desire nor need to be back in the office 3 days per week and that I plan on coming back 1 day per week and when otherwise absolutely necessary for meetings. I was prepared to tell her I would start looking for another job if that would be a problem but the conversation didn’t even get that far. Before I could even mention that she said “That’s fine. I plan on scheduling all team meetings on one day because I don’t think you’ll be the only person who doesn’t plan on being here 3 days per week.”
And that was it. It was that easy. No drama, no hurt feelings, and no one was angry. I think she was fully prepared to hear that several team members didn’t want to come back 3 days per week and she was fine with it. She didn’t want to fight it anymore than I did.
The lesson? Before throwing a fit just talk to your manager! Chances are your manager doesn’t want to be on campus 3 days/week anymore than you do. And they certainly don’t want to have to replace good talent over an issue they can easily accommodate.
I think some of you wrongly assume that just because Nike says “You must come back 3 days per week” you actually have to do that. It isn’t a 50 person company where HR will know if you’re not strictly following the handbook. It’s a 75,000 person company where your manager is in effect your first-line HR contact. If your manager is fine with you working remotely, you’re good to go.
@xza+1, I have faith that you will find something that suits you soon. Get going with research and making connections with people in Talent Acquisition, etc. my apologies as I cannot share the name of my new org; not yet
what company did you land with? I'm looking for a remote gig as well and don't want to return to campus.
"Command-and-control is not always counter-productive. However, many managers in positions of authority will try to control schedules (e.g., time in the office), output (e.g., number of sales calls), and budget (e.g., line item for travel) before they have earned the trust of their employees. So at the same time that they are trying to control everything they can, they say they want employees to be creative and innovative and to respond rapidly to marketplace changes. The problem is that people won’t be creative, innovative, and responsive, and they won't stay in their jobs, if they feel disrespected and distrusted by their managers. Leaders can’t have it both ways."
Yup! I am one of those people; not returning to the office. Not even for 1 day. My choice and I am fully responsible for doing something about including walking away from my position at Nike. Why not? Just secured a full time remote position with another company. Nothing to lose and everything to gain. Sorry, I just do not buy into the BS of “we are better when we are together in the office.” That was never the reason anyway for wanting us back in the office. Feeling d-mb for spending hundreds of millions on shiny new building? Yeah, that is more like it.