Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

God PLEASE let all of the people oppose this nonsense and just say NO.
Tired of wasting 3+ hours a day commuting and doing unproductive stuff.
These companies all say they are going GREEN or investing in clean energy yet their actions say regardless of your work or who you are or how well you do your job we want to make you drive in and use GAS, and TIME and contribute to higher insurance costs and increased commute injuries and fatalities etc... the list is long.

If I were staying with Wells (I'm not), then I would go in a single time, probably the week of March 21st after the first week madness is complete, just to get an official badge swipe on record. I personally would not go in after that and would just wait it out to see how they respond. Certainly, they will have plenty of people without a badge swipe ponder before even noticing me.

Humans are social animals and like to feel like they are part of the group. I suspect that as more employees realize their coworkers aren't showing up it will give them the confidence to do the same and not feel like an anomaly or odd ball. In addition, it also gives the comfort of knowing that Wells can't fire 20 or 30 and especially not 50% of us.

With inflation at 8% and wage growth at 1%, fu-k em. They want to fire me fine, next bank will give me a nice pay increase.

Don't show the whole week.

Wonder how many show up next week, 3k? 2,500?

Ya’ think?!?

“But if that risk proves baseless, employers that insist on presence in the workplace will overspend on real estate and, far worse, may not attract and keep the best workers.”

To see the article (or others) without paywall go to archive.is and put in the source url

Here is this one for you:
https://archive.ph/nZGvT

“Remote work “is not ideal for us, and it’s not a new normal,” he famously told a finance industry conference in February 2021. “It’s an aberration that we’re going to correct as quickly as possible.”

What an out of touch old man, just like Chuckie. Move aside and let the next generation actually make these banks successful!

CEO David Solomon could not have been pleased at the turnout when Goldman Sachs reopened its 44-story headquarters in lower Manhattan on the morning of Feb. 1. The building had been closed for a month as COVID-19’s Omicron variant swept through town. Now, finally, with luck, Goldman employees could resume working together in person, as Solomon emphatically wants them to do, without further shutdowns. Yet as of late morning on that Tuesday, only about 5,000 of Goldman’s 10,000 HQ workers had shown up—despite having had over two weeks’ notice, and in seeming defiance of Solomon’s pointed desire to get everyone back in the office as soon as safely possible.

Is that tepid turnout an anomaly? Or is it a harbinger?

Solomon has risked looking like a Neanderthal as remote work has gone mainstream worldwide. Top-tier tech firms—Salesforce, Twitter, Meta (Facebook’s parent), Spotify—have told thousands of employees they’re liberated to work remotely full-time, anywhere in the world. Some of Goldman’s Wall Street rivals, including Citigroup and UBS, are letting staffers work from home regularly and claim the policy will give the firms a competitive advantage in recruiting and retaining excellent employees. Solomon has said the opposite. Remote work “is not ideal for us, and it’s not a new normal,” he famously told a finance industry conference in February 2021. “It’s an aberration that we’re going to correct as quickly as possible.”

I’ve been saying this all along. These companies have no playbook if massive amounts of employees simply refuse to RTO. Don’t go to the office. Fu-k them.

Can someone post the article? Paywall.

@ 1nlb+1fG69hT1
We're all such rebels working for a 170 year old bank.

Yeah, working for GS and WFC is really sticking it to the man.

That 5,000 number is about to drop like a rock.