There was an email that come out to train supervisor about "Flex your day". What is that all about?
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@nxwt so the rumor on here that they were gonna crack down on "flex your day" was true?
Went through the Upstream training and it was terribly delivered. When many of the teams are moving to Business Centers, how are we reconciling having people come to a U.S. office on a routine basis? The people they interact with are on different schedules in different geographies. It doesn’t make sense… also, people schedule meetings on all days of the week. That means they may be consistently flexing on the same day every week (Monday or Friday) to make the time needs (early or late calls) to support global teams… again, figure this out VPs and Presidents! You want us to leverage scale? Then let us be work in the bounds of the program.
Supervisors flex day out of town, overseas, take their love ones along and expense their trip on their pcards. While the peons get grief for flexing at home with a ham samwich. Another day in paradise.
@1lh wait so the policy changed recently?
Your PDS will be impacted if you use any part of the flex policy, It already happened this past cycle and will only get worse.
Your PDS will be impacted if you use any part of the flex policy, It already happened this past cycle and will only get worse.
To see revised policy goto/hr, scroll down
When asked about the flex policy our manager essentially veiled a threat saying “You don’t really want a policy on paper” suggesting that any formal policy would not be positive. The issue is the policy is essentially “supervisor discretion” which is fine when you have a reasonable supervisor, but how many of those do we have? I have seen groups on the same floor have vastly different “supervisor discretion policies”. Group A supervisor is flexible and allows you to flex as needed as long as your deliverables are not effected. Group B supervisor watches everyone’s time like a hawk, need to leave 30 minutes early for a dentist appointment, ok you owe me 30 minutes. Yes that’s a real example I saw myself…
It’s all about control, management truly feels if you are not chained to the office X amount of hours per day you are somehow taking advantage of the company. Another reason you will never see a WFH option at XOM.
People are taking set days from home such as every Friday and HR is putting a stop to it. It will be buried in long emails and hour long training sessions but thats the rub.
Like most things, flex your day is as good as the supervisor you happen to be have.
In my situation, my supervisor likes to “flex his day” most days of the week and work from home. For everyone else in the group, “flex your day” means come into the office and be flexible so the supervisor can continue flexing & working from home.
Flex your day existed in 2020 before I left. True that it is not applied equitably. So depending on who you are you might get to use it as occasionally lol.
- A number of newish leaders have been promoted may not understand the policy.
- A number of long term leaders do not apply the policy equitably.
It was one of the items that came out of the survey.