Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Sammy, this you?? Or your intern buddy heading the software team?

Work from home is great! I work and attend meetings on the road and at all sorts of remote locations across the world. Some days it is taking calls and attending meetings on the way to the race track. This continues when I arrive as I can stay track for days a time and not miss any updates. I also consider it working hours when Ford is paying for me to fly over to visit my family in the UK. And once I get there, WFH allows me to stay there with my family weeks at a time providing me with a well deserved and refreshing change of atmosphere from those run down dreary Dearborn offices.

I also love that the remote lifestyle helps me keep up with my side gig project sitting on the board of a major motorcycle manufacturer.

Really, WFH has made my life a dream. The rest of you, GTF back in the office.

Watch this R.E.I.T stock, Gladstone ticker "GOOD" this is increasing in value as commercial and industrial property leases increase in value. The more RTO the more the stock ticker "GOOD" increases in value. If you can't beat them .. join them. Dividends are paid every month.

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Commercial real estate and tax incentives for corporations that have employees spending money in the community. It boils down to that and that alone.

You know how you can tell it's true? Because management just continues to spew the collaboration BS.

Cant wait for Google and Microsoft to go back to dedicated desks so Ford can once again 'lead the industry'

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Management would say because we're fortunate enough to be part of this monumental time of transformation at Ford.

But yeah, why would you?

@1woz+1uACyBT6 It is a misleading article, because it does not compare with the onsite behaviors. Before Covid, there were people watching YouTube videos at their desks, others running errands during the work hours, others were taking care of their side hustles, others were taking long breaks and power walking, etc. Slackers are going to misbehave, no matter if at the office or WFH.

Personally, half of my meetings are not related, nor interesting enough for me to pay attention. What do I care about the obscure metrics of a team or the last buzzword from management? So even at the office I'd be doing something else during meetings. Sometimes is work related, like answering email or chats. Sometimes is just web browsing or learning.

Yes, sometimes I do the laundry at home while working, when I ran out of clean outfits. Since the washing machine is inside my home, we are talking a few minutes from time to time, to get up from my computer, stretch my legs, while I do a chore. Remember, I am not actually washing my clothes, the washing machine does it for me. Just dumping and collecting. Even when I do that, my mind is still thinking on the problems at work. TBH, doing laundry have no appeal for me, or I'd have a laundry/dry cleaning business LOL. And the time I use is way less than the time used by coworkers during their smoke and tea breaks at the office. So, I don't feel bad about doing it occasionally.

Whenever I need to run an errand, the clock stops. I don't charge that time as work. That would be stealing. But I do the same being at the office or WFH. Therefore, is not the location, but the worker and the ethics.

From Yahoo, sound pretty accurate:

What do remote and hybrid workers do all day?

They often brag about how productive they are with no gossipy colleagues to distract them or time wasted on long commutes.

But a new survey is offering fresh insights into how remote workers really spend their time. Spoiler alert: It’s not all white papers and PowerPoint presentations.

While employees in the office might ki-l time messaging friends or flipping through TikTok, remote workers take advantage of being far from the watchful gaze of bosses to chip away at personal to-do lists or to goof off.

Nearly half of remote workers multitask on work calls or complete household chores like unloading the dishwasher or doing a load of laundry, according to the SurveyMonkey poll of 3,117 full-time workers in the U.S.

A third take advantage of the flexibility of remote work to run errands, whether popping out to the grocery store or picking up dry cleaning.

Sleeping on the job? It happens more than you might think. One in 5 remote workers confessed to taking a nap.

Some 17% of remote workers said they worked from another location without telling anyone or watched TV or played video games. A small percentage – 4% – admitted to working another job.

Multitasking during Zoom calls is another common pastime.

Nearly a third of remote and hybrid workers said they used the bathroom during calls while 21% said they browsed social media, 14% went on online shopping sprees, 12% did laundry and 9% cleaned the kitchen.

In a finding that may shock some, 4% admit they fall asleep and 3% take a shower.

"Employees are making their own rules to accommodate the demands of high-pressure work environments," said Wendy Smith, senior manager of research science at SurveyMonkey. "One thing we uncovered was that what you might consider 'off-the-booksbehavior' is widespread."

And it's not just the rank-and-file. More than half of managers and 49% of executives multitask on work calls, too, Smith said.

When asked “have you ever browsed social media while on a video or conference call at work,” managers, executives and and individual contributors, who have no supervisory responsibilities, were about even (22%, 20% and 21%), she said.

But managers and executives shopped online more frequently than individual contributors (16% and 14% compared with 12% of individual contributors), according to Smith.

Different generations also have different work habits:

26% of millennials admit to taking a nap during the workday compared with 16% of GenX.

18% of GenZ have worked another job compared with 2% of GenX and 1% of boomers.

31% of GenZ have worked from another location without telling anyone compared with 16% of GenX.

Everyone, including LLs, enjoys WFH time - Fact! RTO mis being implemented to improve work performance as an organization. If this is our management plan, we should all follow our leadership directives that come down.

I’d like to see metrics on how they measure “collaboration”.

All that is needed are solid metrics! Actually solid metrics can help employees, if the position has issues with lack of tools, information and/or other resources. An employee can go to management and show that others on the team have the same issues in targets, it proves that is the position not the employee. However it is up to management, good metrics, not subjective hearsay about performance.

Employee will,be found out and be replaced by engineer from China, Brazil, Mexico or India. That is the ultimate work remote plan. It’s happened already with the roles of people who were cut or left in 2022.

Many employees (even supervisors) come into office for couple hours to get badge swipe counted and then go home ... when in office, they find a quiet space away from others to avoid meeting people. Senior leaders want culture of collaboration and innovation. Lower level Supervisors (LL6?) are waiting to finish their 30 yeras for max pension and engage as little as possible.

@frf,

Exactly!

Leave the slacker alone

I blame the leadership for the lack of leadership first before I’d blame the slacker.

OP probably doesn’t even work for Ford and is just gaslighting.

Leave the slacker alone

I blame the leadership for the lack of leadership first before I’d blame the slacker

OP=Thief.

RTO, as an initiative to drive collaboration, is a joke. If in-person collaboration is king, why are so many jobs being moved to other countries and suppliers? Mandating people to return to the office to collaborate with colleagues and suppliers via WebEx? It's either politically motivated or it's a feel good initiative for managers that don't have a clue.

“ and had it real easy for 4 years. ”

Why does having it easy make it worse for the company

I’ve seen numerous people work their behind off on projects that are counterproductive to this company - tvm model e

At the same time this company doesn’t pay like finance or tech, why would one work their behind only for the detriment of one’s health only to be laid off the next quarter

As long as management has good metrics in place it doesn't matter if employee is working from home or not. I saw people who worked on site, at a supplier for ten years and didn't do a thing. Also saw people at Ford on site, and had it real easy for 4 years. Professional slackers. They even bragged about it. They must gotten degrees from George Castanzia University.

Too many trolls and wannabes of working at Ford.

This is such a BS post. Nice try troll.

Thanks Ford HR for the smear campaign. No one is buying it.

that's why we all will suffer because a few bad apples

Probably doesn’t work for Ford.

Where’s the OP’s supervisor? Probably doing the same thing. Ruining it for the rest of us.

OP: It is people like you that mess it up for the rest of us.