All employees assigned to the West End Center transitioned to remote work.
Last day working in the office was March 31, 2026.
Around 150+ employees impacted.
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There was a time where employees during appreciation weeks the site only received a cookie or a donut. I guess nothing extravagant was allowed since it was marked at that point no longer being a hub location. People losing jobs and in the middle of all this happening.
I guess it really was true all along despite leaders saying it wasn't. WEC was where employees where sent as a holding place for careers to die' and allow more time for CIC to be built then when the time came, you guessed it.
It's really a shame too because WS used to be bustling. Never ever would have thought they'd close such a legacy location.
Staying fully remote would have been far more cost effective. Look how much location strategy has cost everyone.
@13g
I think the DC stuff has to be out by September. The building is sold.
@10r in sense the location strategy 'ki-led' Winston Salem, what is there left really?
@ze Maybe some tobacco jobs still left in Winston Salem. When you have two cigarette brands named after you, the opportunity must be endless
Does anyone know if the data center has also been shutdown or is it just the employees being told to work from home?
I worked in WEC. Going to that office after the large layoff of about 125 people last year,was a bad experience. We had visible proof of how Chainsaw Charlie gets his bonus. Everyday brings WEC survivors closer to displacement, having to commute to Charlotte, or having to move. In the meantime, trying to take it one day at a time while Chainsaw's head lopper swings above.
Will Charlie leave first or will the bank get bought out? Maybe both.
Take care of yourselves.
WEC was a ghost town at the end.
A sad ending to what was a vibrant place when Wachovia was based in Winston-Salem, NC.
Cheers to all my fellow W-S Wachovians. You were the best.
The best part is that there's a ton of execs and upper management that none of those rules apply to at all. Colocation? Unimportant. Location strategy? Nope. Fake hubs created? Sure. Days in office? Doesn't matter. Hours in office? Whatever. At the end of the day, they just want to fire all the American workers. That's all it's ever been about, and it completely dismantles their claim that they want us "in the office". The only office they want us in is the Unemployment Office.
They wouldn't let me stay on with a remote accommodation.
Said by accommodations team: that even if they approved it once, they could at some point stop approving it even with all my health conditions remained the same.
Also, and I quote 'you shouldn't use an medical accommodation as a shield to avoid coming into the office'.
'Nobody wants to keep asking the dr for notes, and we would get tired of approving it, so we won't after awhile, even if your condition or situation remained the same.
Something too that I had to live within 50 miles of a hub. (I don't, I live about 100 miles). Before, commute was 30.
Anyone else in this situation, for what its worth, I had approval from the OCC to be remote. I probably could have stayed....I wish so much that I would have. im having somewhat of a hard time lately.
It was hard to make a decision to leave when multiple sources (manager, recruiter, accommodation team) all indirectly tell you that you shouldn't accept an offer (yes i had to reinterview)
if you can't make into an office. Caught between a rock and hard place over a health struggle.
Then the day you're laid off. 'Oh I wasn't sure how it worked, you can probably stay on with the company if you wanted with your accommodation. I encourage you to apply for something else'.
'Good luck, hey keep in touch okay'?
Radio silence since even with checking to see how someone is doing.
It won't last forever. HY despises Oregon and once they are done it'll be nothing but retail and some sales people.
@c3 In places like Portland fraud agents have been working remote for over 6 years with no end in sight. They stopped giving us raises or promotions and said we would be laid off over 2 years ago, hoping for attrition that never happened. Some locations are just in purgatory forever apparently!
That'd be HYs last desperate attempt to avoid severance expenses. Hope that some don't like the drive to Charlotte and just quit. These executives truly are despicable.
Most may end up with option to commute to CIC Charlotte
@aa Supposedly they are except for approved medical accommodations.
They probably didn't want to make the news for mass-layoffs in Winston-Salem two years in a row.
Remote work is a holding status until laid off. Start the clock.
They are, it's a matter of time. Of course, one could say the same about domestic in-office workers.
Probably just means they are remote until let go.
@OP remote work? I thought WF is eliminating remote work