Does anyone know what “hubs” are and will they affect home-based employees?
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Sorry the FAQs are on the Working Together site. They also just sent out a company-wide email with links to where you can find the hubs.
I am extremely disappointed in both the substantive [bad] decisions being made and the inept and weaselly way they've gone about dripping this information out. First it was return to office, now it's legacy remote positions are toast too, and once you're assigned you'll never be remote again. So much for: honesty, do the right thing, and we put people first.
I used to have so much respect for how this bank was run but those days are gone.
“The HUBs have been announced. They are in the Workforce Strategy FAQs through MyHR. The radius is 30 miles.”
I do not see the HUBs being announced in the FAQ. Are you sure that’s where you are seeing this information ?
The HUBs have been announced. They are in the Workforce Strategy FAQs through MyHR. The radius is 30 miles. Employees who are remote right now, even if they were hired as a remote worker, and live within 30 miles of a HUB will be required to go in 3 days a week. Remote employees who do not live in a HUB or are 30+ miles away will remain remote. What is unclear is what happens to people who are hybrid but live outside of the 30-mile radius.
The emails are vague. (What exactly does it mean “if you are assigned to a space”?) My management team has been silent on the matter.
I informed my teams to continue doing what’s best for them and their teams. We’re so busy really don’t have time to be bothered by this especially after layoffs.
Does anyone actually get access door usage statistics? I don’t, and I have two levels beneath. I’m not gonna ask for them either.
Stop thinking of a HUB as one building. Most of the HUB locations have multiple properties that housed several thousand employees pre covid.
Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Omaha, St Louis, Dallas, Nashville, Charlotte, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Boise, San Diego, Los Angeles, Bay Area, Sacramento, New York, Phoenix, Chicago, Las Vegas, Kansas City.
The number initially thrown out was 20 but it will actually be closer to 25.
Will these hubs have multiple offices in each city/area or just one office millions of us are supposed to report to?
My best hub guesses which only brings me to 17:
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Chicago
New York City
Atlanta
Knoxville
Horsham, PA
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Irving
Portland
Denver
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Sioux Falls
Fargo
Overland Park, KS
Washington DC
So Andy and the c suite can get their ar-e downtown since they make millions but to tell others to do the same is wrong. Is he going to force us all to work in Minneapolis? We are all over US. No one with a brain is relocating to that crime zone.
The strategy is to just get people to quit. US bank does not care about it's employees. This has been going on now for at least the last 6 years.
All of this is because Andy is getting pressure by MN leadership to get people back downtown to generate revenue for government services.
The name is…….ELFIO
It seems no one knows what these hubs even are and where they are located. It will be a mystery because even Elsio does not know a damn thing. Sending vague emails just to scare everybody. Fear tactics.
HUB locations are an excuse to cut workers and branches.
So we are expected to go into downtown offices? Even though we weren’t hired to work there? That doesn’t seem right. Not everyone accepted the job to commute to large cities. How is this even legal. Seems like new age discrimination. What happened to worker rights. They can’t just throw us where they feel like. It all just seems very wrong.
If you are in a hub, you are expected to go into the larger buildings where employees are at. I don’t believe you will be able to go into a branch.
To HR: So if I have an office I work out of a couple days a week since I was hired over 10 years ago, will I have to relocate to these new hubs or can I remain working where I am?