Some of us were not always remote (and not remote due to c19). Many of us were moved out of office due to previous business decisions or hired in remote. The location strategy decision will displace many with valuable institutional knowledge. It seems like a poor business decision.
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Why are we remote? Why do you ask? It's Need-To-Know Basis.
Because the office is toxic and full of negative unhelpful nasty people
I was hired into my position as remote 12 years ago because I didn’t live anywhere close to my colleagues, who were also remote and didn’t live near each other either. I was recently laid off due to remote status. No option to move to a hub, but that’s fine as I wouldn’t move across the street for this company. 27+ years with WF. Nobody here cares about institutional knowledge. It’s all about cutting costs. BTW, 5 people on my team were remote. Three of us are female and each with over 20 years here. All three of us were laid off. My two male colleagues with less than 5 years at the company were given “exceptions”. They don’t even try to hide the discrimination here. Sickening.
Was hired Remote only 11 years ago. Position was eliminated for location strategy and was told to move to a hub in MN or take severance. 3 months after deciding to take the severance, still waiting for my notice letter so that I can move on with my life. And my replacement has already been hired....
“ I object to the term “RTW” ”
As would I. However the company term is RTO.
Hired away from a JPMC hub last year as a remote worker with the promise of permanent remote status. Left a very long tenure career with a massive severance package. Now I’m facing a layoff simply due to my status.
Hired remote in 2006. Been remote ever since. I guess it took them that long to decide I'm unproductive WFH.
I took a massive pay cut for a job that was remote for better work/life balance, years prior to COVID. Therefore, I object to the term “RTW” both because I am not returning, and because it implies I wasn’t working when I was remote.
Do you honestly think that the company wasting billions of dollars on office expenses couldn't be negatively impact your bonus? Keep dreaming. Hudson Yards is half right, we do need to shut down a ton of buildings, almost all of the admin ones. What they are wrong about is Sing on employees constantly and thinking that uncaring contractors and offshore people will bring this company success. They won't. Contractors are garbage and always do the absolute minimum and couldn't care less about customers or our company's future. Success is impossible with such people doing the work. IMO HY is fully aware of that, they just don't care because their golden ticket will be punched before the chickens come home to roost. They are frittering away every penny of profit to boost their own personal shares. THEY know full well the future of the company is Fd and they are getting what they can before it all comes crashing down.
For 99% it's laziness.
There's often an assumption that I am a leftover from CO VID, but I was remote years before.
Seriously, @gut+1sEW6azW - go F=%=C=K yourself. Or better yet, develop the skills to land a remote job.
Why was I remote? I was originally hired for a 100% remote position 7 years ago. That's why I was remote. Next.
I commuted to my hub beginning 2012 and in 2016 they sent me home part time because they needed space for high dollar people to work in office. I took another position in 2018 and was full time remote - no one on the team worked in office. At the time there was no space to even park at my hub. When Covid hit they coded me as remote and now, even though I live within 40 miles to my hub- I’m going to be let go for being in a “micro location”
In 2008 I was told to start working from home as a cost cutting move to reduce office expenses. I already needed remote access for evening/night work.
Everyone under my manger +2 was sent into WFH.
Because they'll burn up in the sun
Because the manager who hired me into this role in 2013 told me to WFH full time since I work an off-hours shift and would be in the building hours later than anyone else. I figure the only reason I'm not gone yet is because nobody on either side of the globe wants to work the hours and days I work. I know I'm on the list but I have zero idea about when it will happen. I'm guessing I'm in the year 2 or year 3 bucket from that HR deck that explained technology layoff waves.
Get back in the office or find a few job. You are going to feel it in your bonuses.
worked remote since 2017. Lease wasn't renewed for the building i worked from. Reorgs happened, then i no longer had co-workers in my location, so became remote.
What does it matter why?
Office closure was told grandfathered in and not to worry. That didn’t pan out.
I was remote because they started by letting people WFH at their discretion. Then they said you had to be in the office a certain number of days in order to keep your cube, so I eventually lost mine in favor of hotel cubes. I came in a few days a month but the process of reserving a hotel cube was painful. I also realized I was sitting next to complete strangers who talked loudly on the phone about projects that had nothing to do with me. So I came to the logical conclusion that, with the exception of going to lunch w/ friends every now and then, there was no point in spending a bunch of time and money to sit in a totally generic cube that may or may not even support my laptop to talk on the phone to people that were 2,000 miles away.
they give no focks
hired remote
Why was I remote? My manager told me that was our policy
Why am I not remote anymore? My manager told me that was our policy
Hired remote in 2021.