How long until we hear word about how important it is for us to return to the office in person? Google made an announcement today and the WSJ has a feature article on the same topic.
(I know this is not related to layoffs)
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Oriskany is the same bs. Moved all our desks to squeeze in the Syracuse office that they’re closing. No assigned desks going forward so sit wherever and because there isn’t enough seats with the squeeze, there will be remote option but who knows how much. My boss clearly hates being at home and can’t wait to make us go back in cause that’s where he prefers to be . None of us want to be in there and I’m not wearing a damn mask for 8 hours. looks like I’ll be getting a doctors note to keep my a-s home as much as I can. If the work can successfully be done from home then why force anyone back in who doesn’t want to be there. This virus is going away anytime soon with id--ts traveling all over like no big deal and coming back to contaminate the rest of us. No thanks
Its all about manager's discretion as to how many days you will have to come to office now. The KOP and Floram park offices are winded down and very less people are expected to be office in the first place and that too for tech side they are being told its only needed for collaboration efforts if you have white board sessions with your team. Again it depends on teams/managers/business they are aligned to. I believe for most of the middle office/back office people they may be expected to go to office once in a month max.
It’s critical to the bank’s survival that we go back to the office suffering long commute sitting with a bunch of obnoxious dbags. Will go long way to the banks bottom line.....bringing it down down down
BNYM have plans to develop the space at 240 Greenwich Street and eliminate the indoor public space. https://tribecacitizen.com/2021/02/14/bny-mellon-seeks-to-eliminate-the-public-lobby-space-at-240-greenwich/
I would guess that means staff will be expected to return.
I don’t miss my 35 year old chair that unexpectedly drops 4 inches at unpredictable intervals.
We already got the speech - that management hasn’t decided exactly how often we will be back in the office but “ collaboration” is very important so we will likely be hybrid.
Never mind that we have been working remotely for over a year now.
And I rarely, if ever meet with anybody face-to-face because everybody I deal with us in another country but ya- i’ll have to come into the office to collaborate via WebEx.
Remote work is the only positive at this place.
@1knk+1a8kNehA, I don't know where you've been but we did that years ago in every office in NYS.
I don't miss listening to my office neighbors cackle loudly and BS incessantly, I don't miss the embarrassingly drab and outdated Pittsburgh office, and I don't miss feeling eyes on me when I dip out at 5:30 in front of all the company men and women who don't really have anything else going on outside of their important work.
I do miss the change of scenery, cranking tunes on my Friday evening commute, and the appreciation for sweatpants when they're not my only wardrobe choice.
All in all I know I will be miserable if they make me go back 5-days-per, however I'm thinking other companies will offer remote work as a perk and a change may be in order in the future.
We only have one person in our group who wants to go back to the office, and I suspect that said person would be somewhere on the Asperger's scale. Loud talker, endless talker, wouldn't recognize a social cue if they tripped over it, and getting away from a conversation is like being attached with a bungee cord that only lets you get so far before being s—ed back into the vortex.
I do not miss the office.
Please managers, tell all the grunts that they urgently needs to work 40h per week in an open cubicle to create profit for some soulless company to be happy.
Sincerely,
Charlie Chainsaw
Because we all know that collaboration, innovation, and creativity is best achieved when we squirm uncomfortably in the chair across from the cringeworthy colleague taking up time with pointless blather. True transformation comes about when listening to some of the most incredibly stupid questions that could ever come out of a person's mouth and hearing the inane thoughts pop into his head while not being able to escape the boring rhythm of the conversation.
Right after Labor Day, Wells Fargo is back in the office. Read that in Google News yesterday. Time to put the sweatpants and bob-bon's away, I guess.
Meanwhile... Microsoft, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter and Square have all embraced the possibility of more remote work after the pandemic.
Companies must get creative in order to retain talent. I envision a new business model emerging. Companies need to offer greater flexibility. Management should take caution in telling employees that remote decisions will be based on job functions while simultaneously rolling this out across the business as a "one size fits all / end of discussion model".
Two remote days a week may suffice for some who enjoy a hybrid option. Others will prefer to work at times that are most convenient given their home situation (4 day work week, half day in office/half day remote, one week in the office/3 weeks remote, etc).
Letting people work from home is a one-sided tradeoff – the company loses almost nothing ('collaboration' hardly counts when people will still use Teams with video and phone calls regardless of being in the office), and gains quite a bit in the way of employee goodwill/morale and public health.
Management needs to begin thinking seriously about how to accommodate the different needs of employees or their strongest assets are likely to leave as soon as there is an uptick in the economy.
Senior senior management thinks it's very important that we all return to the office in some fashion. They are working on a "neighborhood" program (already being piloted in EMEA and Orlando) where all seating will be like hotelling so no one has an assigned desk and you'll probably be in the office a few days a week. Be prepared for a massive floorplan change and mentality shift.