I hear from multiple sources an announcement will be made end of May, effective after Labor Day. Four days a week in the office if you have an assigned seat. You will have to attest to compliance with the policy. Three non-consecutive days in the office if you reserve your space. True? I guess time will tell. Just passing along some rumors hoping to compare notes with what others are hearing.
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@e0 - I agree this data should be readily available to managers and SLT with all the technology they've installed. They really like/prefer Attestations, b/c it gives them cause to fire you, if you say you comply, but don't.
And if you got let go or left, your false attestation blunts any recourse you might have to sue them.
It gives them a Legal basis.
@185 Same thing as the folks who suddenly became disable during Covid and went onto SS Disability right after they lost their jobs...
It's amazing to me that all of these different medical conditions that prohibit employees from being in the office all materialized at the same time. Which is when everyone was required to return to the office after the covid restrictions were removed.
@10f While you may be partially correct about your "Ableism" on some of the medical exceptions, the ones that I am aware of through the grape vine are bogus at best. One member in my group has a medical exception for poor air quality in the office. Unlike the rest of the group, the person is regarded as one of the healthiest. The office is located in a county with a rated "D" for poor air quality. Another exception was for anxiety in support of an elder parent at home. The elder person does not live in the same household. Referencing both of these exceptions, I should have the same authorization with the same standards as I have asthma and my spouse has a debilitating disease with compromised autoimmunity requiring assistance from time to time. Instead, I come to the office 3 days a week. Now, are you suggesting that I should apply for a medical exception?
The comment section is full of Ableism. The crazy thing about Ableism is that any health individual can fall into a disability in a blink of an eye, then you are on the receiving end of Ableism. Most disability is not readily visible. Please think before typing!
@wx I’ve worked with many teams, and what I’ve noticed is that people requesting medical accommodations have often been mostly one group. You can easily guess that.
@pm half of my team has a medical accommodation. It’s ridiculous that they expect more from the people who do come in
@qd I’m.just sayin in general “mind your own business”
@qk their medical accommodation is fraudulent. Is this person ever working? Yet I am micro-managed despite going into the office.
@qd Why does it bother you?
@pm someone in my department has a medical accommodation and that person always posts to social media about their vacations, sport events, parties and more. how to expose them without putting myself in a bad situation, it's a dilemma.
What should be looked at before the enforcement of WPE is the crazy level of abuse of medical exceptions allowing people to be permanent wfh! I’ve heard some crazy reasons that are approved, need tighter controls for sure. Not saying to get rid of the benefit for the legit ones. Also, all the people that moved during COVID away from their office areas, poof you’re exempt too!
Many managers just approve their friends to work from home as exceptions. The 3 or 4 days a week only applies if manager enforces and would likely be legal issue of favoritism/discrimination if they try and enforce some associates but not all to be in the office. I plan to continue to ask to work from home as exceptions cause I have kids.
If everyone wants to be in-office so much (as claimed by leadership many times) then why is so much effort, budget, and policy dedicated to threaten everyone to force them to be here? It's the great Quiet-firing exercise. Make life miserable, blame it on the employee and not policy, save money by not paying severance.
"Responsible Growth"
What is SLT's fascination with "attestations"? What an absolutely stupid term. No one needs to attest to being in the office. It is easy enough for them to compare all of the logs created from badge-in, login/attachment to network, login time on VPN, etc.
@bv Four days in the office with 8 hours each???? Or some days at 6 hours in office and 2 hours at home? Not like intentions to abuse the policy, but I am not entertaining overtime or calls after hours if senior management want to be a**holes about this. I will have to condition myself to end the 8 hour work day with Yabba-Dabba-Doo.
I didn’t hear May but I also heard the 4 days in office if you have an assigned seat
Accurate
I can't believe they would announce while the survey is open, but they could be counting on people completing the survey early then making the announcement as the survey closes.
I have heard information that does not align with a may communication, but I have heard that we should not expect changes until after sunmer
it is time to come full 5 days to work, enough home yoga sessions
@OP If they are going to change to such a mo--nic new policy, they won't announce it until after the survey closes.
have you ever seen anything come out of these survey's?
Let's be proactive and blast this in the survey. I am.
not very smart people work here if they implement this non-consecutive day policy! Oh well!