Evidently there are some MyWork notifications starting to go out. Expectations are to return to the office without documentation for accommodation. More attrition plays? People who have been WFH for 10-15 years may have a very hard time with this.
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The goal is attrition, much the same as 2015. Mywork initially was presented as a way to combat global warming and to save the planet. When they greatly reduced it in 2015, it was to drive people away and avoid severance, and it worked. This is another phase to go after those they missed in the last push. Reducing headcount is much more important than employee satisfaction or combating climate change. For those who hang there, we offer elimination of cubicles and offices and give you a family-style picnic setup as the next challenge.
I was brought in off MyWork in 2016 when the program was supposedly “ending” and was not in GTO. I’ve watched peers remain in MyWork. I’ve seen people move around from job to job and remain in MyWork. While I don’t blame anyone who was able to skirt the system all these 8 years, I certainly blame the bank for allowing it to happen. I can’t imagine what the employee engagement surveys will look like this year - if they even conduct one - because it’s obvious they do not care.
I thought they got rid of MyWork for people without medical accommodations a decade ago. GTO was pretty strict about it, in my memory.
Cathy was as much a problem as anyone else. I don’t see her leaving as an indicator that this was coming. If anything, I believe she got a lot of this rolling. Bessant was the posterchild for promoting someone who didn’t deserve promotion. She was not an IT person and didn’t belong anywhere near it. And her people skills were trash. She inspired no one.
The bank has been hiring and promoting people who are clueless but satisfy one requirement. Anyone with an open mind can figure that out on their own. But I assure you merit had nothing to do with it.
If you’re in GTO, ask yourself if anyone above you has ever coded anything or set up a network or a firewall or created a table. Odds are you won’t find one.
You don’t think since Kathy left - MyWork, flexible hours, life balance, etc. are going out too? Was it her sponsoring all of these? The bank is turning to a “third world workplace” - where nothing matters but the promotion of the most aggressive and shrewd. What happened to meritocracy and intellect? Stupid and ethically corrupt is a cult. Where is this culture coming from?
Face folks, Brian and senior management are pretty open about their contempt for their employees. We are mere cogs at an uncaring system. This is not a people oriented company.
It ki-ls me. I really did like my work at one point. But RTO, wage stagnation and all the red tape added has taken away any motivation to work.
From Bank of Opportunity to Bank of Misery. Well done, Brian. Well done.
This bank is honor cared so much about work-life balance and its employees is truly showing its true colors.
This definitely an attrition play. Management has been pretty clear about reducing head count. Brian and shareholders need to be paid.
Let's face it though, there are still a good amount of employees on MyWork who do not warrant it. Time for the Bank to begin getting consistent as many in the same situation were pulled back into the office years ago.