Thread regarding Thomson Reuters layoffs

Will they layoff remote employees? Will they layoff RTO employees with less attendance?

Many companies now enforce strict RTO with no remote exceptions. Some are asking fully remote employees to RTO or leave. Will TR keep 100% WFH roles, or will it force them to Hybrid/RTO?

Keeping full-time remote roles risks harming morale among Hybrid/RTO staff, who will see it as unequal and discriminatory treatment for the same work. But forcing remote employees back would trigger a wave of resignations.

Right now, TR appears to be full on in double standard. CTO works fully remote, while asking us peasants to RTO. Power protects itself. This imbalance erodes trust. Have consistent policy, all 100% RTO/Hybrid or all 100% WFH.

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They are late to the game. If most other companies are already 3 days RTO or higher and the job market is bad, how exactly will this get people to leave? Worthless consultant firm plan

@1ze You are accusing every hybrid employee of being a slacker?

Slackers need to RTO, while performers have their contributions to speak for them

In my dept., half of the people only have to come in one day a week and the other half have to come in 3. We pretty much do the same work. (This is not the people who have full time WFH agreements). Talk about your double standard… just lowering morale a little more. Employer of choice went out the door many years ago.

@a1 I have been remote since March 2020. I have never missed a quota or a deadline. In September told by my manager despite my offer letter stating Im work from home that I now had to go into the office 2x a week. Then told in October 3x a week starting in Nov. They just switched me for no reason. This is a cost cutting measure folks. They want to force people to leave to minimize the severance packages. You can't negotiate remote unless you have a medical reason or are a caregiver. Nothing else is being approved.

Unfair...inconsistent....yeah that sounds on-brand for TR.

@en Reinventing The Office" I'm using that at the year end review. At worst, under performing. At best, still here when bonus lands. Power, as Varys Steve said, lives where the data says it does, in pass swipes and Co-Pilot usage.

There seems to be some confusion about what RTO really stands for. Many assume it means Return To Office, but at the executive level we prefer to call it Reinventing The Office. This terminology will now be referred to and corrected in all future AMAs as Reinventing The Office.

We are fully committed to RTO in its most modern form. You will notice a few employees are now designated as F-K or FOHO which means From Our Kitchens or From Our Home Offices. It allows us to lead with flexibility, agility and the opportunity to read our carefully arranged bookshelves for motivational insights that might one day help you reach our level.

We have heard a great deal about the importance of collaboration, which is exactly why so many of you are being encouraged* back in. Collaboration helps us continue to inform the way forward to a more understanding, trusting world for all, even if that understanding mostly happens over Teams calls.

• Office attendance is a reflection of commitment to how well you are encouraged, and as such, how encouraged we are to your bonus.

We believe in Performance, Inclusion and Progress, better known internally as PIP, ensuring every journey has a clear destination.

@a1 you think the company values merit LMAO Say some more funny stuff. All that matters to the bean counters is your TC and whether you can be replaced by bottom dollars person in India (or AI, if you drink the koolaid)

This is by far the most twisted take on RTO I've read to date. If the position is remote, it's remote, what part is difficult to understand?

As far as RTO goes - it su-ks and makes literally zero sense. How is my productivity increased by having to listen to the private non work related conversations of some obnoxious guy next to me

@a1 Remote employees I work with were hired in as such as part of their employment agreement at the time, not due to their extra spectacular abilities. Some are great, some are underwhelming. But the fact that you are insulting hybrid workers so badly just goes to show how bitterly adversarial the culture in this company is fast becoming. It's not really the "culture of collaboration" leadership is touting, is it. I sure hope you aren't a manager.

Who you should frustrated with is the higher ups, forcing people to RTO. Many colleagues I know are not happy with the three days, and as someone who is lucky and grateful to work remote, I’d want my fellow colleagues to have the same option.

What’s your problem? Maybe if you were skilled enough, RTO wouldn’t be forced on you. The people are 100% remote are the ones the company can’t afford to lose. They’re critical, and they’ve earned that flexibility. If you were skilled enough, you could also negotiate 100% remote, and no one would stop you. Why should remote employees get less pay for doing the same job? If anything, the 100% remote employees should be paid more, because they have the leverage and the talent to secure that arrangement. They’re valuable. You’re just bitter because you are loser.