State Farm leasing this site was not thought out at all. There are many events in this area. The roads leading into the building are closed down making it very difficult to impossible to get to work. If you don't make it to work or your not at work on time you the employee are blamed. In the long run this is costing the policy holders money. When you drive by this building in the middle of the night all of the buildings are lit up this cost also is costing the policy holders money.
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So if we have gang fights in the cubicles, who the hell are we hiring down there? I guess these are not college educated people? I ask because I don't know too many people with college degrees wearing gang colors... Unless they do things differently down in AZ.
+1 for the comment below that mentioned traffic issues. Tempe office is a nightmare to get into and out of if your work hours put you in the rush hours. Phoenix has the most aggressive drivers in the country, and I believe this city is up there in some of the other bad driving statistics as well. The two lane Rio Salado pkwy gets heavily backed up between ASU and the other businesses on that strip that I have seen 30 min + delays before you are finally able to turn at either light 1/4-1/2 mile away. And we keep hearing of the expectation to have more workers along this strip...worse place they could have built the SF buildings.
Don’t be mislead by that kinda attire being only in those locations. The dress code change caused this. Bloomington (corporate, corporate south, regional) all have problems with attire. Mostly the younger generation. There are woman with their breast hanging out, holes in jeans where you can see butt cheek, see through clothing. Bring back the stricter dress code!!
The right thing? No. On paper it made sense. Consolidate tons of offices into hubs where employees can collaborate,etc.
Uh oh. People were not willing to move at the pace anticipated. So we reduce hiring standards and settle for anyone willing to do the job. Then we subject them to workforce management to a point where many are actively seeking other employment or waiting for a chance to leave. Zero work life balance.
Right decision? No. And it’s too late to fix it.
Wow, did SF do the right thing here? This complex was the most expensive complex built in the whole state of Arizona, just under $1 Billion dollars. In Texas, State Farm is the #1 Lessee (price paid for rental space). Not sure of the cost of the Atlanta hub, but it's got to be up there and we are still building more buildings there? I have been to each of these Hubs, and they all have their downfalls. All of these hubs have major traffic issues / high taxes / crime, etc and it is not cheap to live anywhere near the office in those areas.
Virtually no college recruiting anymore. Everything is a process so anybody can do it. See what people wear to work? Nothing professional about a claims job at Sf anymore.
Didn’t know about Tempe. Common knowledge throughout the enterprise that Atlanta has problems with gangs fighting on location. I continue to question how HR hired these individuals. Background checks? References? Drug tests? Education? Experience? There weren’t clues?