Did anyone see an email or other notification from HR in April 2016 requiring that employees spend a specific amount of time in the office, effectively eliminating even occasional work from home?
I read about it in a posting on Glassdoor.com, but I don't know if it really happened.
Yup, same thing in the Mass office I work in – head counts in the morning and early afternoon. So it’s not only the badge scans. I just hope I’m not in the restroom or decide to be a real rebel and go down and grab lunch from the café during roll call. But does anyone know what the “punishment” is for this heinous crime of not coming to the office? Laid off? Fired? We never even got a memo saying we had to be in the office. My manager got some weird email on it, but told us not to do anything differently until something official came from Corporate, which I have yet to see. He also resigned right after, soooo…..
The last two weeks they have had people walking through multiple California HPE offices with a tablet 2 times a day -- mid-morning and mid-afternoon recording the people sitting at their desk. Heard it will only be for the two weeks preceding US Memorial Day holiday. Sad but very, very true. Don't know if it extends outside of California offices.
You're at thelayoff, if you don't want to hear discussion of layoffs you're free to go elsewhere.
This is simple and BASIC business economics.
Please stop whining and spreading baseless rumors.
HPE and HPI are behaving as well as they can.
The global markets for HPI and HPE equipment (mostly hardware) are flat and declining.
Start re-training yourselves and prepare for the future!
I heard Mr. HR (Alan May) was in Plano recently, ripping managers about their people not going into office. Can anyone validate that?
If you're being hired in the US, it's because they accidentally laid off one person too many and they realized they need someone to hold the fort until they transfer the job to India.
Period.
Should i even consider joining this?
they are considering me for ITO Svc Delivery Cons IV pay band M52.
Anyone know for sure if these reports are exclusively based on badge swipes? I've heard they are possibly supplemented by some kind of network access report as well; e.g. VPN IPs vs corporate LAN IPs.
After getting my card, I saw a lot of empty cubes at my local office (still an hour commute, dammit). I wonder how many employees are getting their badges swiped by others or entering then leaving.
It's a special kind of stupid to force me into an office where I have no permanent cube, and have better resources in my own home office, just to sit in a tiny cube with smaller screens, and not a single member of my entire group around, as they are spread out across the US. I'm far more productive in the home office I have invested heavily in over the last 10 years, than I am at the office.
Whatever. The SEC should have allowed HPE to get sold more quickly than 2 years. We'd already be rid of Meg and her cronies with a chance (albeit slim) of somebody better in charge.
I am so glad I don't work there anymore
For anyone coded ONDO (on site dedicated office) you need to be in the office 80% of the time. Managers can view a dashboard to see how their team is meeting this.
The real irony about this push to have everyone work from the office, is that while HPE is making it very difficult for revenue-generating, Client-facing resources who interface with C-level executives to travel from their Office location (always a push to cut travel expenses) to generate revenue with their Clients, there are some HPE VPs, Sr. Directors, and Directors at multiple HPE sites who expense flying weekly to their HPE "Office" location, expense a hotel, rental car, and meals ... while the revenue generating resources, in some cases who individually generate MILLIONS of dollars are told that there is no money for a raise.
Many of these same VPs, Sr. Directors, and Directors who travel across country to their HPE Office at HPE's expense are overseeing non-revenue generating cost centers ... and are run less efficiently and effectively than the Veterans Administration.
The real objective is to anger the US employees enough for them to voluntarily leave with no severance. Totally a waste of time to drive to the office to attend virtual meetings with China and India.
Yes it is true. Managers received a report with attendance for year to date and per month including your March hours. I think it was meant as a baseline, nobody I know got in trouble per se .. But we were told the goal is 80% in the office. Unfortunately that report is strictly badge swipes - it doesn't know what you put on your time card. So if you take a week of vacation your score tanks. Not sure how they plan to factor leave, sick etc in.
Just Wonderin' is correct.
On April 4, each US managers received an HR email with the year to date and month to date attendance history for their staff.
New hit list?
Don't recall an email lately but that has been the policy for a year or so. I'm basically ignoring it. If they can offshore my job, they can send it 10 miles to my house. Nobody on my team is local as we are all over the country. It is a waste for me to drive in. Work from home is what keeps me at hp and willing to accept near zero wage growth.
I can't tell if Anon is joking or not about Meg walking around and placing sticky notes. That seems like exactly the kind of thing Meg would do.
I'm sure she has the time - it's not like she provides any real value add to the company. We can automate the process of endlessly moving jobs overseas and laying off employees and the last few years have proven that that's all she knows how to do.
And apparently Meg Whitman herself has decided she has nothing better to do than to walk around her office placing sticky notes on computers asking "Why are you not in the office?" I think a CEO has more important matters to attend to than micro-managing the workforce.
Now managers have a dashboard to distract themselves with and to spy on employees.
There's been no official comms but managers are starting to tell their employees.