I am an employee who previously worked from home 100% for > 15 years. Nearest Honeywell site is too far to commute, so to comply I must rent a place during the week and only drive home on some weekends. I am hoping new leadership will reconsider the policy or at least make exceptions for extreme situations. Has anyone else asked for their managers to now request approval to WFH? If we all start pushing back can't we make it happen?
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I've got an offer for 28% less pay but WFH full time at a non profit. I'm over 60, kids are grown and out of grad school. Have a spouse too who works. Thinking I will take it (been stalling hoping for VRIF.) I'll be able to write off home office expense so the pay cut is helped.
3DLQ is 100% correct. Most of the changes are done to drive attrition. It's cheaper to cut benefits and cause people to leave on their own terms than it is to RIF them. Plus, you can turn around and hire a 3rd party subcontractor for half the cost straight away. Sure, the quality of the work will be lower, the output will likely be lower and customers will be affected but lets be honest, HON hasn't cared about customers in decades so why start now?
Honeywell is to blame a lot for the WFH problems. The constant "on paper reorgs" in the past few years, driven by Hon, basically to bring groups together then eliminate 5-10% heads from the bigger pool, got way out of hand. Those deciding on the new orgs were likely WFH when they did it. The only goal was to get the numbers in the right groups on the big spreadsheet to set up a layoff in that bigger group. So in the mean time you ended up with ridiculous organizations where many people were say working in Phoenix, or Sarasota and reporting to a boss in Minnesota, or Kansas City. Many never met their boss. How do you keep track of your people from 1500 miles and 2 time zones away? How do you have any clue what goes on in the plant you never see? The leaders don't really care, it's just a big excel spreadsheet. The change in the policy to make people drive to the office is an attempt to make those who don't want to hopefully quit. The real goal is to turn all workers into contractors.
I for one work fewer hours since WFH was eliminated. I have 2 hours a day less to start with. But overall I think I'm happier.
Although the number of people leaving is causing a rift in knowledge that I'm not sure how HON fills. That makes me worry about where we are going.
I left Honeywell 3 months ago and am here to tell you WFH is a trend that is here to stay, every major company is doing it to some degree or another. What these companies have discovered, is that it is not about Number of hours per week, but instead about outcomes and work objectives. A previous responder listed all the activities that one can do to waste time, but the truth is most of us who work hard and spend more than 40 hours a week to meet the objectives are bosses place upon us.
Make no mistake, this is not about wasted time or inefficient employees, it is about DAVE COTE making a site visit on a summer Friday afternoon. He freaked out at the empty cubes and then tried to turn back the clock 20 years. I know for a fact that his management team tried to talk him out of it. He wouldn't budge. Well now they've made their bed. The talent drain continues unabated.
Word among the recruitment community is that Honeywell is in a downward spiral. No one wants to work there. Wake up leadership, one day you're going to need good people again.
@MB0VqLy-pfh: HR people are not allowed here, unless they have something constructive to say. Managers that allowed situation like this should be punished - din't they see that productivity is going down the drain and people are not doing their job at home office? So now I have to receive punishment because I was working 12 hour days from home pushing projects to completion on or ahead of time? Am I suppose to leave home at 3AM to be in office at 4AM so I can communicate with colleagues in India or Europe? We don't have leaders here, just bunch of morons scared about their place under the Sun of CEO.
The huge success of other companies, oh, like Microsoft and Amazon to name only two of many- the list is long- and the money saved from allowing people whose jobs are able to be worked from home to work from home- cannot be disputed! Honeywell is ran by idiots.
My whole team worked from home and all of us put in routinely 10-12 hour days. Now that extra time is spent commuting for most of us.
Companies save big $$$ on utilities; internet usage; desks, parking spots, shoot, even toilet paper! The environment gets a boost by not adding car pollution to our already over-stressed environment.
This company has become a huge joke.
How do you know? Are youvin the inner circle? I know people still doing it.
I think it will come back very quietly for some roles like the past. By past I mean like 6 years ago when only some were allowed.
You need to be patient and resilient
It will NEVER return.
I think the work from was not meant for every job function from day one.
Then at some point it became very widespread abd that is when things got bad
so I am expecting as time goes on
we get back to normal wfh when only certain group were given the privilege.