The Accommodations Management team has been laid off and the work will be outsourced to a vendor controlled by leadership's agenda - which largely focuses on not supporting those with disabilities and taking away accommodations. The upper leadership talks a good game in public, but the truth is behind the scenes that is absolutely not the case.
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“ Stop this BS and let people work from home if they are meeting their performance expectations.”
A fairly high level HR exec recently alluded on a call to exactly this strongly being considered. We shall see…
It floors me how strongly some people here are reacting to people "abusing" WFH accommodations. Why does Wells want people back in office? Sunk cost fallacy? From my experience most people are more productive working from home. No life-draining commute, less distractions from coworkers. Anyone who does >90% of their job on a computer should be working at home, full stop. Teleconferencing software is ubiquitous. Commutes are utterly stupid and the pandemic showed us that office environments are simply optional. Stop this BS and let people work from home if they are meeting their performance expectations.
@18s What happens to pending cases? For example cases that are pending to hear back from CPG?
those of you with the migraines, eat some salt you silly dingleberries
@d5 it's staggered. The majority of the team has already been given notice (I'm one of them) since the vendor starts in 2026.
@hj I couldn’t agree more. I have severe smell induced migraines. People really don’t know how severe it can be and downplay it because it’s not a physical disability. I can’t use scented shampoo, deodorant, etc and often times my husband and son have had to change their shampoo and deodorants because I’m that sensitive and can smell it far away. Being in an elevator with someone wearing perfume could be enough to trigger a migraine and vomiting within minutes.
@ee - i pray you never have to experience a migraine in your life. they are triggered by certain lights (fluorescence for example) and smells. this is a fact and not just some made up excuse from lazy good for nothings. do lots of people exploit the migraine situation? absolutely yes and they su-k are. but there are also a lot of us who deal with this on the regular and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
there truly are a lot of disabled people out there wanting and willing to work hard and who do really good work. just some of us need a little help to make that happen.
again, i hope you are never put in that situation. most people with true disabilities didn't ask for them and don't want them. the lazy asscravats have, as usual, ruined it for the real folks.
My favorite are those who packed-up and moved 50-60 or even more miles away from the office then complain about the drive.
@dr in my experience, accommodations rubber stamps everything if you have a doctor's note. It's quite ridiculous. So bad that you'd think some of these employees shouldn't even leave the house for the rest of their lives?
I mean sensitive to odors? Lights? Sound? Need sit stands? Can't stand? Low traffic area? Easily distracted? Suzie cracks her knuckles?
Come on.
If you have an actual, legitimate, doctor identified 'disability', you already know that WF is not in a place of being able to deny anything, regardless of who is handling the review.
Now, if you think 'But my arm hurts... I need to stay home...', is a valid reason, I'd get ready to go back to office. The stuff people are allowed to use as an exception just floors me. "My kid's daycare...." Too bad. Your kid's daycare is not the responsibility of WF or your coworkers.
No it’s not, just received my accommodations last week and talked to my guy Friday. Still shows online today.
work from home is just one of many accomodations, if they can accommodate you with something onsite then they will.
@ax And in the same way, it's laughable to blame employees/people at that level when the execs/rich people take infinitely more
Remote accommodations are kinda like SNAP-all those who abuse it make it harder for those who truly need it.
If this makes you mad blame all the pieces of #### that abused the system not the company for reacting accordingly.
@aq it is simple. You go find an employer who can give you the accommodations you need. Not every employer needs to kowtow to every employees needs.
Karma is a biach! Hope you selfish id--ts don’t ever come across a life-changing event that puts YOU in the position for accommodations where your family and your lifestyle needs you.
Honestly people requiring and wanting accommodations should just be fired if they’re creating a burden on coworkers. FMLA users are such charity cases.
"disabilities"
Don't feel bad, disabled employees, HY hates the rest of as well.