I just checked the RTO FAQs on the intranet and there have been little updates since the roll out. Just a handful of updates in June and July that aren't significant. No updates at all regarding fate of remote employees not near a HUB or client center.
Will further announcements be coming soon for RTO?
To my knowledge client hub applies to client facing roles. If you are non client facing, then only the 30 mi radius of the more general hubs would apply to you. If you haven't been assigned a desk and have been set up with badge access, there isn't anywhere for you to report to and home based would remain in effect.
I’m remote near a client hub. I cannot get an answer from my immediate manager or higher ups about my remote status. I’m not client facing so thought I was safe from RTO, especially because I was initially hired as remote, not hybrid. The FAQ is so vague and unhelpful. Any insights?
Future you calling (I work at a big bank that started RTO in early 2022). You have no option but to band together and fight this policy. If most comply, it will begin a process of eliminating the domestic workforce. That's what happened at my bank. NY Mellon fought RTO and won bank in the day via massive noncompliance. They only want you to "return" to office so they can turn around and fire you for not being in the "right" office. My company has been firing 1000-1800 people per month ever since RTO really got going. Trust me, compliance is the road to joblessness anyway, your best chance is to band together and simply say "no" now. They can't fire everyone, not all at once, they need time to plan outsourcing and contracting to replace you. Resistance can and will work, you just need enough people to do it. If you go back, you'll think you're safe for a while, but you're not. They are already planning your elimination. Do not comply. Fight the future or you'll be doomed like I am. Friends and long time colleagues get downsized every month. Good people doing great work. It doesn't matter. The consultants have decided that RTO is the most defensible method of replacing you. Don't make it easy for them and fall into that trap. I did and those of us that are left regret it.
My job is also not what I was told it would be. Sure, roles evolve, but I’m talking within a few months of being here my lunk head manager said to me ‘yeah, that’s not the job anymore and this team does what you were hired to do instead’. Also remote not near hub. Hanging on by a thread mentally. This place su-ks!!!
I am remote, not located near a hub. I was the most senior person on my team (also oldest) and was the only one moved to report under a different org. My job is not the same job I was hired to do. I am totally misaligned. My current role is production/task based and not at all aligned with my skills and experience. I'm so unhappy. I have applied to a couple of internal roles that are what I was doing in my previous role that I was moved out of and was told I could not apply unless I moved to a hub. So, I'm riding it out until I get laid off.
I'm working remotely, living far away from a hub. I hope I get laid off soon with a decent severance package. I hate it here.
I've noticed that the FAQ deliberately does not indicate net new additions. Sometimes the FAQ will show an update but does not have a date in red text to indicate that it is a new addition. They are obviously be purposefully unclear about the changes. They need a technical writer to keep track of the revision history/change log.
We need to be able to keep track of the FAQ as it changes since it is the only thing that we have to learn about any changes. They also have nothing under the Client Center page and on the Hub markets page, the only info listed is for Twin Cities. The rollout has been bad from the start.