Getting emails that keep reinforcing rto at four days, notably leadership…
Apparently, they dont want to deal with stupid stuff like the friday trainings we now have and the upslilling that has nothing to do with 95% of our roles…
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@47n Definitely happening in the Bank. As some areas are doing the ways of working assessments and they have to reduce headcount they are picking off policy violators to do so which helps them reduce the number of people they have to lay off and pay severance. Just because it’s not happening where you work doesn’t mean it’s not coming when your LOB or CoSA has to cut headcount.
What areas is this happening in? It’s definitely not happening in mine as many folks come in late, leave early, not hitting 4 days or saying anything about being “talked to”. If your team is all centrally located in one office, I can see this being a problem. However, with a large WFH population (even within 60m of an office) there isn’t anyone being fired for having/giving flexibility to those who work in office. Once Remote EMG are in an office, then the within 60m population is bought in, those IC who are in office are only being “fired” if they are low performers. Not for “abusing” an ambiguous mandate.
@OP if your leadership is sending you emails, slacks, or talking about it in meetings with you…be aware that they are giving you an opportunity to comply before they start firing people, or at minimum place them on pip. It’s a way to CYA so they can ensure the expectation was set and you didn’t comply.
@46v this is absolutely happening even if you claim extenuating circumstances, but you failed to talk to leadership about those circumstances and you just decided to not abide by RTO did. It won’t save you.
EMG is firing worst offenders based on hours in office. Ie those coming in and working 4 hours or less on their in office days. First out are the badge in and out within a few minutes or within 1-2 hours regularly folks. That’s just blatant abuse of RTO. If you have been doing it expect to get fired in the coming weeks as this has already started. If you’re closer to 1/2 days they’ll talk to you and warn you and expect immediate behavior change otherwise you will get put on corrective action and then walked out the door if it continues. Be smart people. They would rather fire you for a policy violation than pay you out a severance in this time of cost cutting and reducing headcount.
Only remote employees i support are military and military spouses. Everyone else go work in your town / county.
EMGs should set an example and head back to the office asap!
Had to happen eventually... be in office or be gone
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander…..
But, to be fair, you cant keep firing people for not coming into an office when work is getting done…..
@ds the January 28th layoffs included a lot of remote employees, management included. I lost half my team, guess which ones were laid off? The ones who were remote, including my manager who was remote in Hawaii.
We have a ton of EMG and above who are remote, USAA needs to (but they won’t), tell them they have 12 months to move within 60 miles of an office, if not, here is your severance.
Understood. I’ll be in on everyday to help provide the 'vibrant office energy' to justify the big home office. Looking forward to sacrificing my most productive hours of the day to the gods of the Highway System. It’s a small price to pay for the privilege of seeing everyone’s Slack notifications in person.
Most employees are members…
Upset employees, upset members…
Remote should only be for those it was first intended to help… PCS military spouses. On the flip side, hard to “crack down” on RTO when you have a massive remote workforce, plus the WFH individuals located near offices. Be surprised if hours are being used as a method to let people go. The first group that should be called in are the $300k+ EMG leaders located in NYC/LA/Chicago/ATL and any other large metro. Move to SA if you really “support our mission”
@d3 girl on my team last year was let go for exactly that. She would badge in for 1-2 hours then leave to WFH. Reason they gave her “using RTO to her benefit and not for the purpose of building the culture USAA is trying to create.”
They have reporting to track hours on campus. People scanning in and out are gonna have some conversations around changing that behavior or get let go. This has happened already for people suspected of this and confirmed by badge pulls to include folks in leadership. They are applying it across the board.
@cy are they cracking down on hours in the office?
@cx
Exactly.
Juan was on the board that fully supported Waybe's RTO move. Juan was never going to be a repudiation of Wayne. If he did that would have basically meant the Board was admitting total incompetence.
Sorry folks, but anyone thinking Juan was going to pivot from Wayne’s hard stance on RTO was fooling themselves. Only reason we haven’t gone to 5 days is because we brag about “flexibility” with our workforce. USAA talks about “cost savings” with the layoffs, but will hire someone for $100k to monitor badge in & outs.