Rumor has it they are re-evaluating all remote medical accommodations.
Does anyone have more information?
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Too BAD. ADHD doesn't count anymore.
Don't ruin it for the rest of us with that go in for an hour mess. No one has a problem with me being in 5-6 hours and leaving early and I'd like to keep it that way, but if enough of you trolls clearly keep gaming the system, they'll start monitoring number of hours between badge swipes. The data is there. You lived before going into office 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, I think you can manage several hours a few days a week.
Pretty sure I heard they were doing that in multiple town halls. Just because you need an accommodation does not mean you must work from home. If they can accommodate in the office then you will be denied. If your issue truly requires WFH I hope you get approved. If your specific issue can be accommodated in the office, I hope it gets denied and you come into the office three days a week like the rest of us (who are not trying to game the system) are doing. Not saying you are as I don't know your situation, but so many entitled people gaming the system are ruining it for the legit people that need it.
Accommodations does not equal wfh all the time. Law doesn’t say wfh, it says accommodate. If they follow the law while RTO then they still followed the law. If you don’t like it then vote for Congress to change the law. Or vote with your feet and go to a firm which accommodates more towards what you like.
There are lots of problems with Wells but this is a minor one. Look up the lawsuit mentioned and see that the guy moved to the other side of the country and they allowed it then did not make accommodations but fired him. Whole different story than what most see at work with accommodations.
yes they are looking at this. They also changed the form the healthcare provider fills out. It’s no longer an “accommodation “and basically I was told by ERC that unless you’re dying of cancer, they’ll find a way to get you back into the office.
It depends on your manager mostly, if they are OK with you working remotely. If your manager doesn't like it, you will most likely be singled out.
I am ready to lawyer up on this one. I think it’s fine to request a review. What is not okay is going against doctor’s recommendations and now all of a sudden claiming the exception is no longer working after it’s been in place for many years.
I'm sorry you experienced that, and sadly, it doesn't surprise me to hear. All those feel good stories and platitudes about how much our execs care about disabled people and help them do their best work is a load of S. Lies, like everything else out of their stupid mouths.
LOL @ “rumor”
@spx+1u1gy2dR Lawyer up- your case sounds legit. WF just just a huge lawsuit in a case related to a denied accommodation.
I thought they do reviews every six months.
At the end of the pandemic, I got a medical accommodation to work from the office since the large monitor I needed for my eyesight did not fit well at my house. I was not scamming anyone. I worked at WEC in Winston Salem and the shameful property management put the handicapped parking spaces where the water pooled and claimed that they did not need handicapped stalls in the bathroom because they were "grandfathered". WF treats employees with disabilities badly and some of you posting here are agreeing with them. I thinned myself out by retiring so I am one less disabled old person WF has to deal with. But I am an expert in my field and took that expertise elsewhere.
Doesn't burden Jack or S, GTFO with those Hudson Yards knob gobbling talking points. I'm happy for every single employee that is remote and it doesn't burden me. In fact, they are more available and it helps me. Costs the company a lot less money also.
Medical accommodations are the biggest scam going. All it does is burden your coworkers with extra stress while you stay home. Good, thin out the herd. These people are usually nothing but trouble-makers when they finally make it back to work.
I have PTSD from two tours in the ME, VA and personal doctor verified, Wells Fargo recently denied my WFH accommodation. Will be quitting after I get my bonus.
We have one WFH on a medical accommodation. He is useless. So useless in fact that he gets a couple small work assignments a year and takes months to finish them.
Drive to the office 3 times a week but stay just a little over an hour, just enough for the system to register you logged in to the network. Then go back working from home the rest of the day .Thats what I have been doing. ✅
"Thin out the weak. Stock is up. Must be doing something right."
Lol @ this guy. NVIDA is up like 800% in a year and he is cheering WF stock.
They always do annual reviews to see if your condition has changed, need different accommodations, etc. Nothing new. Just remember a medical accommodation does not necessarily mean a remote wfh accommodation. That they may scrutinize more. Actually I hope they do. A lot of people take advantage of it.
Just because they are reviewing them, doesn't mean they are acting on them.
You'd be shocked at how d-mb some of the accommodations are.
I had requested one the HR id--ts didn't even listen to my issue. I had approval prior to covid and problem started appearing again with no solution. I can't afford a lawyer but curse this stupid bank to go down into ditch like MCI, uswest.
Thin out the weak. Stock is up. Must be doing something right
Surprising given the recent 22 million dollar lawsuit they lost due to laying off someone with a wfh medical accommodation.
Yes, HR is going through this.
The company just can't bring itself to make employees happy and help itself stand out among competitors.
@qva So you're saying you're not as innovative as everyone else. Low-hanging fruit is the easiest to trim.
The "point" is to make you miserable so you'll quit without severance. That's always been the entire point of RTO.
As someone who is “rehabbing into the office” I can confirm that they are flat denying broad wfh approvals and making “every reasonable accommodation” to get me back in the office.. where I sit alone and my team is throughout the country.. so pointless
Considering four out of five people in my group in Irving have mysteriously come down with medical accommodations in the last year or so (I’m the chump that sits in the office alone 3 days), this is absolutely welcomed and long overdue.
Not a rumor, they always do that. It’s just that things got backed up during covid
once rto started, given the influx of accomodation requests they pretty much approved everything as WFH. Now they are going back and reevaluating. Remember, they just need to provide reasonable accomodation and that may or may not be WFH.