How’s that RTO going and consolidation of floors?
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Meh, I have fun with it. I start my day with a good breakfast consisting of Kashi GOLean Crunch cereal with oat milk and dried apricots and let that fester during my commute.
Since no one from my team or related teams are there, I collaborate and celebrate togetherness by crop-dusting as many aisles and floors as possible. “working and smelling together!”
2 questions on RTO:
- What are the goals for this per person? No way you can have 100% compliance with holidays and sick days… so is it 90%? There are zero goals publicly expressed for what’s expected of employees beyond the strict 3 days a week… even if you’re ill??
- Managers are tracking badge swipes… so I’m still doing my part if I stay an hour or less and then leave, right? It’s impossible to find a private room for Teams meetings. Not trying to have them move to tracking network connection hours, but is anyone else just staying a short time to get your badge swipes in?
Most in my department have received accommodations to wfh even though we are required in office 3 days a week. Anxiety, migraines, and lack of childcare are the reasons I have heard are getting the golden ticket!
I asked my manager if I could come to the office 5 days a week instead of 3. She said only if you continue to buy $8 coffee and $18 lunch to help small businesses. YESSSSS!!!
I can't wait to watch the fireworks that will play out in 2025. I'll make sure to watch it from the safe location of a remote role working for a competitor, but it's going to be a show for the ages. I think the bank should triple down on MORE woke ideology, not less! Do it for science! #fafo
Just remember how when COVID sent us all home and we made it work ..with no compensation for the faster internet we were required to upgrade to, no compensation for home office needs, bonuses were taken away (from my dept.) although the fully remote workers in my dept got a large pay increase. I hope they realize how we made the bank successful even during a pandemic because we were more productive. Remember how we have been treated and when we are called upon again in another similar situation we will need to rethink how we respond! I will definitely not be as eager to make it work for them!
Folks, I’ve never seen such excitement—big, tough guys, tearing up as they come back to the office. They’re saying, ‘Thank you for bringing us back to the real joys of work life!’ They’ve missed it all—the two-hour commute, the open office where privacy is just a dream, and the thrill of ‘hoteling’ for a desk every morning. People are thrilled to log in just to fight for a spot. Who doesn’t love a good desk lottery, right? They can’t wait to sit elbow-to-elbow, overhearing each other’s phone calls all day long. It’s what they live for, folks. This RTO? Huge success. People are practically begging for more!
We should copy and paste all these great responses to the Survey.
Add, with tears in their eyes, big guy, he came up to me , crying, no one has ever seen anything like this beautiful. He was so happy he can sit anyway he wants, tears coming out of his eyes. He said , sir, RTO is making return to office great again
RTO has been great!! We love paying for parking, driving an hour to work, sitting in traffic, hearing g-n shots outside the building, having homeless people harass us. There is nothing like it. Oh yeah and all the restaurants and shops have closed down since covid. Its great!!
People are telling me RTO is going great. They all said it couldn't be done but USBANK did it.
This morning an admin assistant that I haven't seen in several years came to me with tears in her eyes thanking me for the chance to be back in the building. Then she asked me where the her desk was and she cried even more when I told her much like you can "dress for your day" (also my idea that nobody said could be done) you can sit where you want!
LOL! Sarcasm at its finest!!
RTO is going well and everyone is very happy, survey scores suggest RTO has been incredibly popular and successful. People want to be back in the office and there is no substitute for real human contact. U.S. Bank leadership has done an amazing job communicating the how, what, and whys of RTO and as a result, the workforce is motivated and engaged to a level never seen before.