Wow. All the whining about actually having to get ready for work, drive to work and actual work in an office!
You all need to knock it off and do what I (and the vast majority of employees) do: get out of bed, get out of your jammies and go to work!
Amazing how many people feel that they're entitled to work from home. Am glad Cote made this policy change. Should have happened a LONG time ago.
WFH haters have no idea how distracting it is to try to work in a "packed-in like sardines" cube farm. I've deliberately spent countless days working at home to hide from idiots who ignorantly and regularly walk into my office area to shoot the s#:+ with me; And they have refused to go away after me telling them I have company and contract critical very near term deadlines. As a result of me hiding at home to avoid these distractions, I've captured tens of millions in funded dollars for aerospace. Broad brush changes in policies like the WFH change are short sighted. Worker-level attention would be far more fruitful
No one should be picking up any slack. HON needs to feel the consequences of their actions.
Based on the comments on this chain and others, it seems like Honeywell has deployed some to comment on this website to help guide the conversation in favor of the company's latest decisions.
Ever since the cancellation of the WFH policy, I find myself staying late because of all the childish bickering and refusing to do certain tasks from some of my co-workers. Some of you have legitimate reasons to WFH most of the the time and I respect that. Some of you are even more productive WFH which is even better. But please don't take your anger out on the rest of us that just want to do our jobs. Its not our fault. Please consider that all of these things that you are doing to "hurt" Dave and Tim are hurting some of the "good guys" too.
Maybe if the WFH people actually worked, we would not be having layoffs and furloughs.
The sooner those slackers leave the company, the better.
As a matter of fact, I know a lot of people abuse the WFH policy. They only show up a few days a month and even those are like 6-hour days. I am not talking about sales or field people that need to be constantly on the road at all.
You WFH grunts will soon be working at home again. When the axe falls you will have ample time to finish your honey do list. Hope you saved up some $ to pay the laborors so you don't have to get your fingers dirty.
Wow....the OP is a menstrual member. Sorry you're on your period. Midol can help.
Again. The OP and everyone who agrees with her needs to stop using drugs.
Come on really. This is what they want conquer and divide, fight among yourself. A lot of the processes that can be done offshore via internet are and or have moved. i.e. someone orders a part. It gets processed offshore and a storage facility thousands of miles away fill the order. Billing, IT, Why they pay a lot lot lot less to those offshore. They are going to have a lot more desk space available.
I'm voting for the OP for President!
He's spot on with the B.S. WFH policy!
People need to shat up and go to work!
"Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland. Mensa member. Patent owner. Blah blah blah."
Really. With all that education, you still cant see the detrimental effects of a policy like this? Secondly, if you're so smart, why are you working for a company like Honeywell anyway?
@OP. Again. Please answer since you are obviously so smart! What is your solution to those of us required to support global entities? Obviously we can't work in office at 6am and again at midnight, then at 3am and 10 pm.
As 'smart' as you are, you most obviously have zero to do with any overseas resources.
What is the answer? And please, make it viable to work within the current environment.
And please leave the illogical and idiot response out of this. I'm seriously asking you-
Again, I'm the OP. Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland. Mensa member. Patent owner. Blah blah blah.
For those spoiled little, entitled dweebs who choose categorize the "non-WFH" folks as laborers, uneducated, etc., I have news for you. We are likely 10X as productive as your sorry, entitled, jammies little azzes.
S--- it up. Go buy an alarm clock, get a car, buy some gas, schedule day care, and kiss the WFH policy goodbye.
If you don't like it, Amazon is hiring drone operators.
It seems to me that the people who think the new no-WFH policy is a good one are also the same type of people who would abuse it if they had the option. They think everyone are as shifty and as lazy as they are. They can't conceive of being productive in a self-directed environment, because they don't have the capacity or the work ethic to so themselves.
The people who are complaining about the new policy are, more likely than not, the very people that provide the most value to the company. I used to work from home 1 day per week. Why? So I could have some peace and quiet and focus on i-dotting and t-crossing tasks. That's also where I scheduled most of my meetings. I would start my day about 6:00am and I would start tapering it off around 5:00pm, but might not totally stop answering emails until close to 8:00pm. Now? Honeywell gets 8 hours from me and I accept no requests for meetings held before 7:00am or after 3:30pm. The engineers in India have no one checking up on them anymore either and, because, in general I've found that they can't self-direct, productivity is plummeting. Nice going Dave.
Why the elitist attitude against laboror people? Some of you sound like cote wannabes. Over the years I have seen moron labor people and moron people with 6 year degrees. Same thing with intelligence. I can understand the anger from the WFH crowd. I'ts a stupid policy intended to get you to leave. You will soon be working for someone else anyway so why quit?
Great, now I am going to have to interview for a new job on my own time instead of doing it while I WFH.
Anyone know why so many HR people are leaving Honeywell faster than rats off hot pavement?
All you illiterate laborers have no idea what you're talking about. Until you are expected to cover a span of 12 hours over your shift from teams in different hemispheres, you can all STFU. Don't forget to labor off your job for lunch, you f*cling serfs.
Wow, so much animosity over a WFH policy that most companies in the 21st century offer as an option. Not everyone who works from home are in their PJs. Some have had cancer, closed head injuries, strokes, etc and can't commute. For others the commute times are ridiculous & expensive.
Give leadership some credit for realizing that with 3 layoffs, furloughs, reduced benefits, increased premiums, salary freeze, and threat of salary cuts, all in one year, that they have totally pissed of even their most loyal, dedicated and productive people, and now can't trust them to remain that way anymore, no matter where they're working from. In other words, they've shot themselves in the foot several times over, and know it.
WFH...what a joke.
Go get a real job instead of lounging around in your Hugh Hefner pajamas.
I would like to wfh too, so do whatever i like wo anyone looking. Drinking, nap, shopping, picking up kids, having s.x and sending out couples emails, attending skype wo saying anything, email, giving people ... wish wfh wo a job.
U s---as are gettin trolled hard.
"Lunches" with the stay at home mom across the street..laughed my butt of....
Maybe you can continue your "lunches" working from the office....oh wait that is reserved for VP and above...
@OP. Stop b--ching about paying for child care or driving long commutes; no wonder you're miserable. Ill bet people HATE working for you. It sounds like you need to leave.
I'm the OP again. I drive 2 1/2 hours a day to work. I pay for child care to the tune of $800/month. Time for you stay at home lazy butts to do the same thing as everyone else.
Entitled whiners. If you can't handle it...leave.
OP is clearly retarded.
@OP. How exactly, since you are so smart, do you propose we handle global entities that need support in the middle of the night? Should Honeywell supply us with cots and sleeping bags? Seriously! If you honestly can't see the negative impact this has had already on Honeywell, then you are most definitely part of the clueless management problem here.
Take everything away from us, including our ability to do our jobs with ALL our resources, then put us all on PIP or RIF us for not living at Honeywell 24/7. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
We did not make the rules to be a globally integrated company. But we are the ones suffering for it now.
You need to think long and hard and let us know what your brilliant solution is to this issue.
My commute is 4 hours a day. I live where I live because I took a job where I could work from home, thereby saving the company money and the planet pollution.
Cote said that the RIF is necessary because we've become very efficient. That increased efficiency was happening while we were allowed to WFH, and may be the direct result of that privilege. So, in the spirit of fixing everything that isn't broken, in the past 10 years , especially those that works best, and fk them up real good, the company is now fixing another idea that isn't broken to fk it up and reduce efficiency. Juuuust brilliant, if I may say so myself.
I am going to miss my "lunches" with the stay at home mom across the street. Damn this new policy.
I agree with OP. Now all the WFH'ers whose Skype status would be "away" for hours on end are suddenly "available". It's human nature to loaf when no one is looking. Some people can pull off WFH and be more productive but they're in the minority based on my experience.
@OP. I'm sorry you have such a sh*tty, miserable life. I hope things turn around for you soon, but being jealous of others is not going to help you. Try focusing on what you can do to better yourself and your life. Perhaps going back to school or looking for another job outside of Honeyhell? One thing is for sure, I'd kill myself if you were my manager.
OP is a liar for sure. You manage engineers and don't ever WFH? If that's true then YOU are getting taken for a ride. Don't worry though, soon this will all be over.
OP! You deserve a Chairmans Award! I can see it now.. "When there was morale issues within Honeywell, OP mentions that employees are whiners about the WFH policy. Thanks to OP, always doing it right and fast, business productivity skyrocketed within hours because employees finally saw the error in their ways." ;) Now get to work OP. You are not contributing to productivity by being on this site.
Honeywell has a bad habit of not honoring the previous regime's agreements with employees. That is what the "whining" is about. When your employer agrees that you can work from home and you move an hour and a half away from the office based on that agreement, yes, people have a legit gripe.
Hey dumb--s. I was hired (read: I accepted the job, turning down other good positions) based on the remote worker policy. I routinely start my day at 6am, sometimes 5am, working with global teams on Skype. I work very hard and have made critical contributions to my team. My hard work has thus far been met with a constant threat of RIF, no bonuses or merit increases, a decrease in benefits, and now taking away the very policy that caused me to accept the position in the first place. So you can f--- off right along with Dave Cote. Just because you take your butt into an office every day doesn't make you any more valuable than the rest of us, you dumb boot licker.
Eliminating WFH is probably the best thing ever implemented at Hon. Those who disagreed can always find employment somewhere else.
Let's see how you feel when they steal away your vacation time. It's coming.
F--- off. You don't know everyone's situations so stop acting like you do. I manage a lot of employees and this policy has already caused Honeywell to lose knowledge that we can't afford to lose. It has also impacted morale of even the ones who already go to the office every day. We are bleeding trust and morale.