If we stopped acting like sheep and stood up for ourselves we would not have to deal with this. I’ve never been at a place like STT where it seems everyone is afraid and let’s mgmt treat them like a slave.
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GHR called my manager asking why I wasn't in the office.
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Agree 100% The time wasted in a long commute due to bad weather, traffic
accidents.
People who could easily work from home being forced to drive to the
office during snow storms and other bad weather.
I have a problem with people who think ever call they receive or make
needs to be put on speakerphone.
I don’t believe the RTO was moved to 4 days to force people to quit. It was meant to send a message to clients that SS is following what other competitors are requiring for RTO. Likely they look at the top x competitors and follow the herd. If they would, instead, use a little more flexible, compassionate language with employees vs threats it would go a long way. We were home for 3 solid years. We got work done, took care of clients and flourished. I have to believe there is some middle ground. 4 days is a lot and it’s expensive in terms of both commuter cost and time lost to long commutes and employee mental health. The office consolidated to desk share and lots of open space. I’m finding the office incredibly loud and distracting as I host and attend meeting with globally dispersed teams from my desk. Conference rooms are not practical for those of us with a heavy meeting schedule as they are almost always booked. There has to be a better way to handle the situation than just waving the stick. Conduct a survey, get some feedback. Something. My team is in the office more than pre-covid and hating the lost work/life balance and inflexibility.
Its obvious why execs are forcing people back to the office. They want to make it miserable for you to quit.
Execs understand people want to get raises and bonuses because they too want the same for themselves. Their strategy is to quiet fire workers so they can increase their inflated wages. It's corporate greed. Everytime you put in long hours, going above and beyond in hopes for a promotion, just remember that the executives are finding every means to get rid and replace you.
The weird thing my team was work from home three days a week before covid. We were actually approached and asked if we would as then we would not have a dedicated desk.
Now after years of successfully working this way, SS says we need to be in the office 4 days a week. No explanations why even asking repeatedly why after numerous years precovid we worked successfully this way. We get no answer. But we are told from senior management they are transparent.
I think after years of being abused, underpaid and living in fear of the yearly layoffs.
The workers have decided enough is enough.
The company needs to seriously look at the workforce and decide who actually needs to be onsite and who can work from home. Not ever worker needs to be onsite many can easily work from home.
Morale is rock bottom. Layoff roulette has lasting effects.
Enforcement seems to be entirely up to department heads. I have plenty of co-workers flat out refuse to come back more than 1-2 days a week and our SVP hasn’t done anything about it.
The JAB was packed the first two weeks but is now back to being a ghost town. So it appears this is an across the board rebellion.