I’m sure anyone with half a functioning brain already knows the lunacy behind RTO mandates and the reality behind them (hoping for natural staff reduction without severance). But to put this idiocy into perspective, I witnessed two people having a teams meeting with just each other while sitting across the row from each other. This is a daily reality where I’m at.
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it is really demoralizing to see so many other people with the same work situation. One couldn't dream of a more ineffective model with less collaboration. How did we get to this point? it is not salvageable.
Cutting edge technology, that’s so funny. As a bony customer that deals with other banks, just fools fooling themselves.
Question for management: What are the plans to (re-)align teams accordingly in order to actually reap the benefits regarding collaboration and "leading and learning from each other"?
@a2 Same here. Before I was let go last month, all day in the NYC office I would have Teams meeting with people in Pittsburgh, the U.K., Poland, and India.
I see no one when I go to the office. I found a quiet corner where I won't be disturbed and can work in peace.
We all know they're just trying to get rid of people, but the wrong people are leaving. We've had a few senior people with vast knowledge of the business quit because they've been working from home for more than twenty years and have no intention of wasting their time going to the office for no reason.
I'm sticking around for now, but at this point a good job offer would probably get me out of here.
Did anyone notice that they took the question about "If you were offered a similar job at another company, would you leave BNY?" out of the Peakon survey? I wonder why, lol!
The reality that this boils down to is: how well we tolerate working for lying deceitful management? For a company that goes on and on saying how it is cutting edge with technology but then adopts a 19th century mentality to discipline workers is just lying. There is no in person collaboration. It’s just all day long with head sets. The fishtank glass rooms usually have managers camped out in them all day. They do this because they do NOT want to be accessible. If management consistently lies and feeds bad baloney to its employees then just think what hogwash clients and shareholders are getting?
Yes, spot on. I'm having meetings with co-workers who are either in NY, Pune, or two metres across the room from me in either direction.
My reality is commuting to pgh office, paying to park only to have internet teams mtgs w/ people in the UK, NY, & India.