Did anyone else just receive an invite for a 30 minute call with an exec? Any idea what it could mean. I've come into the office since September but it looks like their reporting is a couple of months late.
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I’m creb and about to see this too. That’s fine, i’ve been two days but three is fine as well. However, when 5pm hits, off goes the computer and bank phone. No more 10:00pm emails and work load. You want it in the office, then it stays in the office. They should check vpn access and email traffic. I believe they would find that they are getting far more productivity and employee bang for their buck than they think.
What annoys me to no end is the fact that for my department, they stopped renting our office building and moved us to another location. We have an area to sit in office on Monday and Tuesday (Group A), however, our area is assigned to another team on Wednesday and Thursday (Group B). On Friday, we were told it's first come first serve. Everyone is also told that it's mandatory to be there 3 days a week. However, as I described, they don't even have the seats to support it. If you're in Group A and you come on a Group B day or vice versa, you have to go to break rooms or common sitting areas in order to be in office. If you come on Friday, it's just a mess of people trying to find a place. People are literally fighting over seats. It's ridiculous. If you want people in office, lease the appropriate amount of office space. Also, contractors are not in office, and half of many of the teams are offshore. Of my team of 17 people, literally 4 can potentially be in office right now, to get on Webex calls and spend their day. What kind of collaboration is that anyway?
Look for the bank to lower headcount another 5000 or so. Word thru out management is the bank still feels over staffed. The company wants to continue lowering head count and work to get under 210k.
Those who have not complied with their teams RTO policy, are toast.
Company is garbage
Summary of the meeting
- 3 days a week (holidays count as wfh)
- email will be sent to only associates who are not coming 3 days a week. Stats are pulled based on badge swipe
- employee has an option to choose i comply or i don't comply
- selecting "i don't comply" will create a case and workspace excellence specialist will work the employee to hear their concerns and take appropriate decision. He didn't mention anything about termination but he did said that action will be taken against employees who don't choise any option before the deadline
@3oyg+1phZ9biv: MyWork or something similar is needed because of employees with medical accommodation reasons for WFH. Management can't make that group disappear with RTO.
Take it from someone who has connections in HR, they have been working on this since last year. Just check in Flagscape when Workplace Excellence was first mentioned. It's from Oct 2022. They will start termination process if you don't comply.
Favorites get to be in or moved to mywork even though that program supposedly ended years ago.
Manager discretion really needs a more clear definition
They really do allow their favorites to run amuck
3 or less for manager pets and 4+ for everyone else.
So is it 3 days or 4 days in office that is going be enforced for GTO? And starting when? I saw in another thread that client-facing Private Bank folks should be in office fulltime. Oh my!
We have signed acknowledgement emails before at the beginning of RTO and every year yet some people have never been in the office
It's going to depend a lot on state laws & leadership
They said we are going to receive an acknowledgement email that we have to sign for Workplace Excellence. It is to cirm we will comply in the office 4 days a week. It has to be signed and sent back.
This might be the most backward a$$ company. I forgot to mention cheap, too. Us little folk don’t matter as long as they get their bonuses and do the bidding of Klaus and the WEF.
Come into office 3 days a week or prepare to get fired.
What was the meeting about?
it’s time to brush up your skills, update your resume, do the bare minimum and target M/M, spend your quality time with your family, utilize all your perks and find a new opportunity only after Feb of next year while this s*hit company go bankrupt. There is better life out there.
Probably taking the baby steps of what other big companies are doing.
On the call right now. Apparently the HR notices that have been sent out are being ignored and Aditya is now broadcasting it? ‘Workplace excellence’ is such bullsh-t. This is just a tactic to lose folks. Aditya was supposed to be the breath of fresh air from Cathy, but he’s a literal carbon copy of her. Inflexibility. This isn’t 1950. We shouldn’t be treated like kids.
Probably 4 days a week from jan
not every FTE GTO employee received the invite.
There is no point to fight amongst other employees about who did & who didn't go into office
This plan was probably hatched the moment they decided to send us home
We are on the brink of recession, but consumers ngaf has been pushing it back further but it's coming
Now they are fighting fraud, credit card defaults, commercial real estate balloons/loans, employees & clients offloading cash/stock all while the company holding executive packages with both hands.
Believe me you are fighting the wrong fight.
Make the job work for you & your family
Take your sick time, vacation time
Go to your doctor's, dentist
Use every single perk afforded to you
Probably invite only for GTO employees minus contractors
I did this afternoon, I was thinking it was for the WFH stuff. I guess all of GTO.
On the call I was on, they said they would be firing people….??
If they can't fire the ones that are out of compliance with 3 days, does it really matter?
I cannot believe all you people that have still have been working from home you all should be fired. You are making it worse on everyone. Leave the company if you don’t want to work that simple. I’ve been back for about 20k miles on my vehicle! When I was asked! Have respect.
Everyone will be in 5 days by Q1 2024
Anyone in GT not get the invite yet? I got one too and was definitely not expecting one, so agree must be to all in GT.
I got it too. Been going in as well. Might be sent out to everyone in GTO