Ford is all talk and no action. Those engineers that have been working from home in Michigan are still working from home. I don't see them at the office or the plants that I am working everyday. Ford should track their badge, when they swipe in and when they swipe out. Ford needs to terminate those that are no in compliance with the company policy. Follow the good example from Elon Musk, it works. Everyone are back to the office 5 days per week at Tesla.
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@15m You must have an accepted skin color
If youre a high performer they dont care, i think ive come in twice a month since june. No emails. You should always be setting up your career with the leverage they need you more than you need them. Make your own rules.
1) You don't badge out, I would think you'd know that.
2) You don't think there might be a few more hoops for HR to jump through? Also, have you considered departments may need to make plans to take on the work those people are currently doing?
3) Have you considered some of them either have received medical exemptions or have requests pending? Do you think it would be wise, as a F500 company, to let people go before reviewing their ADA accommodation request?
4) If that type of thinking is common for you, then you should be counting your blessings that they are in front of the firing squad first. You are 100% at the bottom of any force rank lists your LL creates.
"I don't see them at the office or the plants that I am working everyday"
So you are regularly in a wide variety of office and plant environments, enough that you know who should be where, and can track in-office patterns over time?
Smells like cowshit to me, bud.
You seem very concerned about where other people work. Why is that? Is it causing you some difficulties?
This thread is genuine comedy
@ge I think some of them know it, you know they go home and feel empty with what they've done to this place, taking an American icon to this is just sad....
@c2 I hope you are correct but based on the current leaderships lack of remorse I wouldn't hold my breath.
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OP needs to be monitored, that’s why they need to be in the office. For those who can do their job autonomously can come in when we needed. The whole badge monitoring will stop in about six months after senior management chases a new shiny object and we can go back to three days hybrid which is the good balance between full RTO and WFH
You must be new to Ford. If you are part of the club, then management will look the other way. However, if you are not, God help you if you try to WFH. It’s not fair, it’s Ford.
Ask your manager to explain it rather than complain on an anonymous site.
вullsнit there are jobs that can be done from home and jobs that cannot, asking everyone to work from office is not ideal
The company is keeping track. What management does with the numbers is up to them.
Team, RTO is no joke. The company has to take action to improve collaboration which broadly improves every aspect of the company. Studies have proved this in the post covid era. Look it up if you haven't researched it.
F&F are exempt, but there have been a few firings already for non-compliance.
@aa Holy Mother of God, you're right:
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/10/tesla-driver-ki-led-after-being-trapped-in-miami-fire/
https://nypost.com/2025/10/05/us-news/tesla-cybertruck-door-issue-saw-california-teen-burned-alive-suit/
Also, Tesla Cybertruck and Model Y burn people alive inside when they are trapped in a fire.
Tesla is great at designing Cybertrucks that fling body parts onto highways.