The very idea makes me want to quit right now.
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Can we organize a letter? Or is it only for the elite employees that work for Apple that can pull it together? I almost feel like bofa employees are always scared. Like I know for a fact the majority of my teammates prefer to wfm but I doubt anyone has said anything because it would make us seem less of hard workers, it’s so sick.
If you wfh you are less likely to need before and after care due to commuting. Cuts time kids being exposed.
@1tbx, just curious how working from home is different as far as daycare? You still need child care working from home. I have a 3 year old and couldn’t imagine working this past year without daycare and babysitters
Survey has nothing to do with WFH. They do not care. Pushing for a work in office environment, but pushing clients away from FC to go mobile, and pushing us as employees to become clients. Makes no sense. For the most part we are not client facing and there is not a need to go back to office where it’s noisy, dirty and stressful. Less stress at home. More productive. Weed out the dead weight and jokers and get back to hiring experienced people for the role. Still a game of ‘how many bodies’ there are.
COVID-19 proved them wrong about productivity working from home and now to not look like mo--ns they are doubling down on getting rid of it because they got their feelings hurt
@1tbx+1bck2Trf that is what the employee survey was for
Before this pandemic, BofA has been cutting back on WFH because of co-location/collaboration makes workers more productive bs. Covid just proved them wrong. BUT, mgmt will enforce WFO regardless. They want workers to become tire & frustrated and decide to quit so that mgmt will not have to pay for severance pkg.
I saw an article where Apple employees wrote a letter signed by thousands about Apples return to office policy. It was organized via Slack. Can we organize a similar effort via Mattermost and send an internal letter to Moynihan?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22491629/apple-employees-push-back-return-office-internal-letter-tim-cook?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
I’ve been working from home for a year and a half. Going back to the office is literally going to feel like a huge pay decrease (1500 daycare, 400 gas/mo, wear and tear on car), not to mention the one hour each way commute.
To hqf+1bck2Trf, it's not about being scared of Covid. It's about non customer facing associates being able to continue to WFH when I have proven to continue to be a top performer working from home or in the office. Many other banks allow employees in my line of work to WFH. The management from over paid Brian on down want to have all their serfs in sight and under control. We don't have to be stuck in the 20th century now that we have proven the new paradigm. I hope you work in a large FC in a large city. The bank will continue to close branches as baby boomers die off and customers have been pushed to electronic banking and found out they don't have to go into a branch and wait forever to do their transactions.
I knew this pandemic would cause employees to want to WFH permanently. I have been working in a branch since the pandemic started and never caught the virus. I also was vaccinated and never had any fear when this started. You have to stop being scared and this virus is not going away any time soon.
I've got my plan in place. I've updated my resume on my home computer and when I get my 30 day notice the job hunt starts in earnest. I'll ride the WFH bus until the driver Brian M crashes it into a wall. I think a lot of employees will be ex employees soon. I've had a taste of freedom and don't want to go back to jail to be micro managed.
To make things worse I think we will struggle to keep the flexibility we all had pre covid where a day or two a week WFH was fine. As they have now declared we are a 'Work in office' company they will probably try to enforce some ridiculous process for WFH pre-approval for even occasional days to try and keep control.
good, they want you to quit, dummy.
Even the hybrid model seems too much for me...