I am based in the UK and after much soul searching have made the decision to resign and accept a new, fully remote role. I started working for FD 7 years ago. As much as people say the merger has ruined Fiserv, it's funny because that's actually how many of us OFD people feel too. Even though it was FB at the helm, it was never this bad before. I genuinely enjoyed by job until c. 18 months ago and never could have foreseen how bad it could get, and how quickly.
I'm not leaving because of my clients, my team mates or the many fantastic colleagues I interact with daily.
I am leaving because I simply can no longer take the stress of working with teams that have been decimated through either redundancies, or voluntary leavers (mainly due to the closure of the London office, scrappage of full-time WFH and an insistence on working from the Basildon office min. 3 days per week, regardless what your agreement had been with management pre March 2020).
I am leaving because I have been saddled with a VP who is so toxic and archaic in their management style that they would honestly be unemployable outside of FD.
I am leaving because this VP never sticks up for their staff, rather sees anyone who raises some of the many issues here in the UK, as a problem. They want clones of themselves on the team, and if you don't fit the mould, you will never succeed under their leadership.
I am leaving because I will not allow John Gibbons and Frank Bisignano tell me I will have to sacrifice an additional c.12 hours per week with my children on a commute to an office that I never needed to be in pre-Covid.
I'm close to many people living local to the Basildon office who have worked at FD for upwards of 20 years. They have never seen morale so low and quite openly despise what the company has become. I feel for them as in their mind they have no choice but stick it out and desperately hope things get better (some want early retirement, others know they won't get their salary matched locally). I think of myself as one of the lucky ones who is in a position to get out and move on to better things.
Sorry for the lengthy post. Just wanted to give some EMEA insight. The company is broken on a global scale and I hope FB gets his comeuppance for making so many people's lives miserable. I won't bank on it though.