Thread regarding Bank of America layoffs

So who's right, us or the managment?

We say we can do our jobs remotely. We say we talk to our teammates using webex / zoom & we can do that remotely. We say Financial performance has not suffered, with the bank reporting results on Thursday morning that were better than expected by Wall Street analysts.

Executives say “remote work virtually eliminates spontaneous learning and creativity because you don’t run into people at the coffee machine, talk with clients in unplanned scenarios, or travel to meet with customers and employees for feedback on your products and services.”

So who's right, the employees who have proved working remotely works, or the executives who say working from the office only works?

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Post ID: @OP+1djlyufl

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Who's right, Bank of America or every other comparable company?

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Post ID: @1ytq+1djlyufl

Isn't a question of who is right. You work for the Bank. The Bank doesn't work for you. Quit and stay home and stop crying.

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Post ID: @1alx+1djlyufl

Hahaha….you have to go back to the office….suckers!!!!!

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Post ID: @1prn+1djlyufl

I think working in office can be beneficial or even essential to some roles but for a lot of other people, they can do their jobs well remotely.

100% of my external meetings are with people in different locations and countries. My team is all over the country. So even when we had internal team meetings before the pandemic, we never went to a conference room (even though 2/3 of the team are here in CLT). Everyone takes the call at their desk via skype/webex. When we chat with coworkers in the office, all the conversations are water cool talk, nothing work related.

I think the mgmt realize some jobs don't need to be in the office. But they have to ask everyone to be in so that it seems more fair and easier for them to manage.

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Post ID: @mie+1djlyufl

The great irony is after the collapse, banks folding, huge layoffs etc, you’ll all be begging to have a job in an office. LOL!

It’s coming!!! Be ready.

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Post ID: @qnw+1djlyufl

Here’s what’s going to happen….
of you’re high enough on the corporate ladder, you can work from wherever you are. The lower down you go, admins, tech support, project manager, etc., get used to coming into the office 5 days a week.

Same as before. The top talent works how it wants, the worker bees drag themselves into the office.

Pro tip: become a VP or above and WFH a couple days or all week. If you are making the bank $$$, you can work from wherever. If you are not making the bank $$$ and are a necessary role that doesn’t generate $$$, like admins, tech, project manager, etc, you don’t get to choose.

What is so difficult to grasp.

You want to WFH? Climb higher on the corporate ladder.

In the meantime, go fill the copy machine with paper and put on a fresh p-t of coffee.

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Post ID: @fhl+1djlyufl

There is literally ONE person creating all these threads about not wanting to return to the office. Please go find a new job.

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Post ID: @bmn+1djlyufl

My team is all over the country. There is 0% face to face collaboration. We're wrapping up our best year in the last five. If they truly believe that so many people love being in the office, make it optional and see what happens. All of the interviews and articles refer to brokers and money manager type positions. There's no reason for tech employees to commute in to sit alone, other than to drive them out. Some one said on here before, for each social butterfly who can't work without goofing off pretending to get a coffee, there are a few introverts having their best years ever. They force classes to recognize differences, but then refuse to see how forcing 200,000 into the same work model makes no sense. They refuse to admit the OP's points about how great we've done on the bottom line.
They are too concerned with RTO to balance it with their new environmental risk model. The first step is to put a hundred thousand cars on the road, per day. This tunnel vision for RTO is worse than Ken Lewis' drive to buy up every bank no matter what. It comes back hard.

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Post ID: @hub+1djlyufl

@ylh+1djlyufl quote - "Some people actually enjoy coming into the office, believe it or not. Nothing compares to real in life, real face time work."

A very small minority enjoy going into the office. The vast majority HATES going into the office. My team is spread across the nation, so "real in life, real face time work" doesn't apply to me, nor does it apply to the vast majority around me. So every time I hear that argument on why I should go sit in some cubicle so I can collaborate with my team, its a freakn joke.

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Post ID: @wis+1djlyufl

@ylh+1djlyufl- nobody enjoys the office. Please go find yourself a life.

Sincerely,
Everyone

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Post ID: @dot+1djlyufl

@ylh+1djlyufl the office is Open. why are you still here? Surely, the site is blocked internally. Troll!

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Post ID: @iww+1djlyufl

All that fake good news is just to prop up the market.

Stop being so naive. Collapse is coming.

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Post ID: @fma+1djlyufl

It does not matter who is right, it only matters who is left.

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Post ID: @ksr+1djlyufl

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