#office

Will the Austin office be affected by the layoffs?

They really want people on-site. Guess this will decide what site is next on the block.

Put a bad review and fire people?

But having an interview for another job so loud everyone can hear you.

Ba--s!

I think he nailed it, too.

Get rid of teams. Back in office 4 days a week to collaborate. If I am taking / collaborating with Johnny, who is an Executive Director in Risk, Governance, Compliance, Regulatory Remediation for Credt, WIM,Corporate and Community banking who is an SME in RCSA, then my teams might be yellow for an hour. I am getting extremely valuable knowledge on how to be on calls all day long and filling out metric reports for people who look at those reports and challenge them with questions like “where do you get this data?”

Confirmed many office are closing end of May. Get ready for more Rifs to follow.

Does anyone know why there has been a push to get us using bank laptops to replace our HVDs?

Anything happening yet?

They will loose too many employees by forcing time back in the office. Employees have to many advantages by working from home. Less time on the road, less money spent on gas, clothes, food, less wear on vehicle, etc. They can have repairs, deliveries, etc, taken care of without taking time off. They have their own private bathroom and can make lunch at home. There is absolutely no benefit to the employees for being in office. Neither is it a benefit for the employer. Just a micromanagement tool disquised by colorful language like "collaboration" bs.

Remember once upon a time ago 240G (240 Greenwich St.) used to be 101 Barclay St? Has the address change the bank’s solution to side step being a privately owned public space (POPS)?

BNY is supposed to allow 24 hour public access to the lobby, and has historically done all it can to deny access. How convenient that changing the building facade will guarantee they cannot meet this legal requirement for at least another 3 years. Anything to keep the riff raff out, I guess.

Look up 101 Barclays Street here: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/rvih-nhyn/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD

I heard this is coming in late 2026

If I badge into the office, is that a day in the office, even if I also have logged in at home and had to authenticate through PingID on the same day?

Things are changing.

Sort of like college so people can spend more time working and less time commuting if they are single or live far away? Nothing special similar to a college dorm with small rooms and community bathrooms. Or a hotel type setup. Minimal cost to the employees? I would definitely do that to cater to my minimal lifestyle and get out of traffic.

April 1! You ready for the Hunger Games? 4 days in office 8 hours a day. Those microwaves are going to be cranking all day long. Seats will be hard to come by and those Focus rooms will be filled to the brim with all the “look how important I am” workers.

The Keyboard and mouse at each station will be filled with germs and who knows what other funky bits. And those bathrooms, oh those bathrooms will ripe with unbelievable smells.

On the other hand, the collaboration that will take place will be incredibly helpful to furthering the foundation of Tech and Risk across all teams. For once WF got it right. Only way to make it better would be to have everyone come in 5 days a week. That’s just a pipe dream at this point, I guess. But a dreamer can dream

I am on maternity leave and have a private office in NY. Have they announced or will be announcing any changes to workplace excellence/ return to office? I just want to know what to expect. My manager said changes were coming but delayed - anyone know when?

What are the worst Intel IT apps and how do they negatively impact your work ?

hope nobody moved to this area recently...

Everything is slow.

Friday tomorrow, you know what that means, focus room reserved. I’ll be there at 6am with my yeti cup full 3/4 Jack Daniels 1/4 Joe. I’ll spend the morning researching March madness picks and calling my bookie, from the privacy of my office of course. I’ll go for my 30 minute morning dump and then a walk to see some friendlies around 9. Obviously share the sauce. Around 11 I head out for a liquid lunch at a nearby watering hole then take a little siesta in the truck. When I wake up I head back inside to jiggle my mouse and watch March madness games. It’s 2pm before you know it and I’ve hit my 8 hours, weekend is here. Time to close up and head to the bar for a couple more drinks and a basket of wings while I cash my bets. RTO ain’t so bad, there’s really no pressure to do anything besides show up and check the box. Life is good.

Anyone know why the changes to time in office has been delayed? What date will the announcement go out and when will it be effective?

As we transition to ODW, site visit reporting will be retired. However, the expectation remains the same: Onsite team members are expected to work a regular day from a Dell office five days a week. While attendance will not be shared, this expectation is non-negotiable

Have we won the battle?

This only applies to the Maryland offices because I have no clue what’s happening at other locations. I’ve been informed that they are tracking badging in Owings Mills and “collecting the data for who comes in their 2 days a week and who doesn’t”, at least for tech. I know most associates are in 4 days a week, especially at HP, but does anyone think they’ll mandate tech come in 4 days a week this year?

Does anyone have any idea of the direction of this new merged consumer office? It looks like a lot of role overlap. Will there be rifs on 3/19 for this area? Seems like the uhc consumer office folks are in a stronger position than the optum.

There is no way RTO is being enforced equally. The only people who are being forced to come in are the people on the phones. I walk the floors

I heard from my manager they are in the process of setting up IP tracking to determine how many hours a week you are in the office - presumably with end goal to have dashboard like 11 RTO days but now including how many hours your IP showed you in office.

Anyone have further details on IP or any other in office tracking being implemented?

I'm hoping this goes the same way as their development of badge in/badge out tracking which they were too incompetent to implement successfully, which is why we only have the badge in system now.

Current Understanding on Tracking
FTE - Badge swipe ins per month / 11
Contractors - Sapience Micromanagement Software

Personally I would have expanded the comments about the mouse but it was on point!

Anyone else hear that once we get that anticipated email from HR that band 3 and above need to be in office everyday as BAU. For now us band 4-6 or higher will need to be in office with flexibility and limits on that flexibility. I see the future where we are all back to 5 days and have some flexibility as long as it’s not a consistent thing

BoA just signed up to take over all of OBP, making current tenants of 600,000 SF subtenants of BoA i.e. no immediate big expansion but we went from 1.8m SF leased to 2.4m SF total so flex option for the future...perhaps this is to enable the full RTO ?

1. Folks will spend more time finding available seats
2. Will spend more time commuting during peak hours
3. Will log in less at home if 8 hours requirement is met for day.
4. People may work on different shifts like 6am-2pm vs 9-5 vs 10-6. It’s hard to schedule meeting across different time zones.
   What else?

On Employees that are fully remote in claims with no offices? Are they moving the jobs to the hubs or no, and staying fully remote?

I overhead that all senior level grade 9 and above will be required to be in the office a minimum of 5 (count them) five days. This is to role model full RTO before making this mandatory for the rest of the employees.

Is this being reported on? Four days in the office is too much, the low morale in the office is ki-ling me.

We make air, openclaw to be new CEO at next coffe talk. Line of doom still dooming. Coffee badge cleared , just get your a-hole to the office.

Hock has spoken, I obey and thank your sir, may I have another?

It's so incredibly wonderful to have finally exited this dumpster fire of a once great company. The air is fresher, the birds are singing, the flowers smell sweeter. The level of TIAA senior management incompetence, hypocrisy and corruptibility is matched only by that of our nation's current White House administration. No more ridiculous 3 day in office pseudo collaboration. No more glowing annual reviews and high praise that at bonus time still never translate to anything higher than a middle of the pack rating. No more televised circus side shows featuring the queen bee and her inner circle of high paid enablers (Are You Ready to Rock Charlotte!?). Let's see now how everything plays out as I try to get my retirement funds out of the company. There's a lot of great people that I'll truly miss. And no small amount of individuals that I most definitely will not.

I’m hearing mixed messages. Does y’all have the facts?

Has anyone heard anything lately on if/when they are going to push for us to return to office again

Anyone else concerned about reporting to office with Iran threatening to attack US Banks?

Has anyone heard anything about potential layoffs at the home office? Specifically on the merchandising organizations as supporting teams?

I smell a blood in our office but nothing here...

Anything spicy to share? Aggregator model is an epic failure...a bo-b must be dropped... The only questions that I have... when and how big is the bo-b this time?