For the Maplewood location, what are functions hearing for RTO for under JG16? Are you receiving mandates from your management for 3 days back? 1 day back? No mandate?
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Before 2019-2020 we were in a country-led structure. The pandemic and the dissolution of the country-led structure happened at the same time. many people think remote work is responsible for the global teams and early/late calls but it’s actually this move to a global structure that happened at the same time. That’s why we weren’t all on 7 am calls before remote work.
Before I started working from home, I wasn’t in a global role and most of my important contacts worked in the same time zone.
Nowadays, for me, RTO is just adding 2h commute, removing flexibility in working times and doesn’t add value as there isn’t anyone in the office I’m actually working with.
I just don’t see any advantage for the company nor me by going back to the office.
Forcing employees to take calls on their commute is all good until an accident occurs. Then it becomes a much more serious legal issue.
For those of us who live farther from 3M but are considered local it is a big loss of productivity when I would start working at 7:00 am and work later if needed at night to wasting those two hours back and home again sitting in traffic. Am I required to take the early meetings now from the car or can we stop with these early meetings if we are in the office. I think this RTW is meant to make us uncomfortable and inconvenienced to make us leave the company.
We're coasting in 2 days a week to transition until end of the year. Game on though come week of Jan 6th.
Just curious why everyone states working from home is able to jump on calls with different countries and productivity blah blah. How did y'all do it before when working from home wasn't a thing?
I truly think working from home is more beneficial for the employee but not the company. This is just the start by the way and will be eventually 5 days a week. Be thankful you got your time to work from home.
Good riddance.
There is a wide range of opinions at the 3M Center beehive depending on the function and where you are in the reporting chain. For office type work intelligent supervisors & managers trust their hybrid worker drones to get the job done (that's why they hired them) and aren't pushing RTO much at all. General recognition RTO will negatively impact drone productivity. Forget about time lost in commute...seems desk jockeys actually need...a desk (and gasp...wifi too). Many office-based functions are already woefully underresourced with long hours and lower lever managers don't want forcing the RTO nonsense to cause their direct reports to quit. The subtle guidance at these lower levels is 'we're all going to fake this and do the minimum for as long as we can'. The Coors Light version of BB's RTO. Anyone with a pulse knows that the rotten state of this company has nothing to do with hybrid office workers not showing up enough. Director & VP guidance is all over the place and it's especially hard for them to force swallowing the RTO pill when they are fully remote working from another state. One exec gave more flexible guidance in direct conflict with the announcement/FAQs right from the start. Another had more firm guidance initially but then relaxed it within a week.
No info on how this is going at the plants.
My manager is still confused and was caught off guard by the announcement. This far, what I have heard is to do what makes sense for you. It doesn’t sound like there is enough hoteling space for everyone and some some concerns about network bandwidth and reliability for such a surge on campus. I believe this is the part where we are asked to be patient (dropped calls and such).
What do you guys think about the RTO for the locations that were not listed in the town hall?
I’m in a global role based in EMEA. I spoke with my manager, and so far, he’s completely fine with me continuing to work from home as we look ahead to the RTO rollout here.
We’ll see how things develop, but working from home just makes more sense, allowing me to join calls in the morning and late evening with colleagues in Asia and the U.S., rather than commuting two hours daily and missing important calls with my main stakeholders.
I really hope we can apply some common sense and avoid pushing RTO for people whose roles don’t benefit from it.
What was the ESC guidance for the quad?
Before Covid, during Covid, after Covid and now - same direction from my management, “do what makes sense.” I’m in the lab most days anyway and work from home when I need to focus on computer work. I’m treated like a grown up by my direct management. But wow, the ESC guidance that just came out for people hoteling in 225 sounds just awful, though I did get a laugh from the “Unlock Your Best Day One - Employee To Do’s” list: Item #3 is “Find your Badge.” You can’t make this stuff up.
Yes, it’s happening. They’re not using the term ‘mandate’ for below JG16, but colleagues have already been put on the spot by management. Officially they’re saying ‘employees are encouraged to take advantage of “collaboration days” and that we’re all accountable to making these new days work.” Unofficially leadership are implying if they have to be in office, then everyone else has to be in office.
Also wondering the same