Badge swipes, 9 hours in the office, 5 days a week. I hate the way this company has become too, but I knew the Fridays RTO was coming because sapience showed workers slacking on Fridays. Right or wrong, doesn't matter. The other thing is unlimited PTP will probably be eliminated or they will add something in the language. Soon we will need manager approval once we submit time off requests because once again, a few bad people ruined it for the majority. HR found several people taking mass amounts of time off! They don't trust the majority of us to do our job because of a few bad employees. Just sad!
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@ax+1jkkv56g5, very thoughtful and deep. Thank you.
@ax+1jkkv56g5 Are you living in reality in 2025? Corporate America is all doing this and gives no ph--ks. If you got a job in finance and expect differently you are not smart.
@db+1jkkv56g5 It is literally a few employees that caused these policies. The point of the post is it is bad management to treat everyone worse for the sake of some children or mo--ns being hired by accident.
I think people down voting may be illiterate or don't understand the tone of the post.
Stop blaming employees for the company establishing antiquated rules. They have the data on who is doing what. Yet choose to roll out these d-mb rules for everyone rather than directly dealing with the offenders. "Bad" employees are everywhere, and yet I don't know of any other company that has gone as far as mandating a number of hours in the office. It's elementary to be discussing how folks breaking the rules are causing us all to suffer. Even if everyone complied, the millionaire in charge is on a power trip. His egos loves that he has this much power and while folks will complain, they'll also comply.
That’s just the line they you to get you to play along in your head because trying to rationalize these decisions makes people’s head hurt and makes them sad. There must be some other reason when nine times out of ten it’s simple; the CEO wants this and corporate America is inherently authoritarian.
Your boss always has more leverage than you. And so does their boss and their boss, all the way up to the top. That’s why despite the fact that most department leaders don’t care about WFH they have to tow the party line. Because when the rubber hits the road they’re going to save their own hide, even if it means firing good people. All they can do is delay the inevitable and let you know if advance the storm is coming, get out.
Stop wasting brain cells trying to put blame on others. You’re better than that I’m sure. This company does not care about the underperformers or the overperformers. A company that cared about that would let managers make those decisions on who to fire, who to hire, and what should their working arrangements be. At this company, past your bosses boss, you are a number on an excel spreadsheet that some new college grad looks at before his boss decides whether or not you should get sh-t canned to make the quarterly numbers look good.
It’s up to you to decide if you’re willing to put up with that and for how much money.
Phvq them. I work a lot more hours on Friday. Why don't they call out those work less on Friday than just punish the rest of us?
When FB took over First Data in 2013 he said out loud that he didn’t believe in work from home but it wasn’t widespread in that company. When he took over Fiserv, however, there were plenty of employees with that distinction. The pandemic threw a monkey wrench into his plan to wind it down but we’re finally here. If WFH is that important to you then it’s time to leave. In fact, you should be gone already. It’s not coming back.
To the OP,
I hate to tell you, but you are chugging the kool-aid they're handing out. You're statements are EXACTLY how the ultra wealthy want you to behave. It is a solid indicator that they've got control of the narrative in the class war they're fighting and dragging us in to.
Frank is no different than elon, bezos, Dell, Ellison, etc. They're ALL playing from the same playbook. They're ALL carving out a "small group of bad actors" to point you at to find where the "REAL" fault is. It's all BS. If they had 50 OR 1000 people across the org causing an issue with WFH, it'd be easier and more effective to layoff or fire those people, and tell the rest, to keep up the good work. But no, suspiciously the reports always come out proving EXACTLY what frank "knows" is happening, so everyone must be punished. Many have seen sapience just not collect data for most of a day. Isn't it funny how every Friday many more seem to have that problem than most days.
If you can step back and remove yourself from the fear of losing your job in a bad market... and I know that's hard. You'll plainly see that you're being manipulated through that fear to hate others that never did you any wrong on behalf of frank and his cronies. I'm sure they're are a few bad apples amongst us working schlubs, but they're a far smaller problem than those at the top that hold the real power and are manipulating and hurting us while winding us up against one another. They're the real threat.
@a3+1jkkv56g5 Lyins is here and it's 5 days a week. Enjoy!
Guess I'll just have to "slack" eve-rry day now!
That is a sl@ve mentality to blame people not licking boots as much as you.
It’s very sad.. just watching people in 6855 bldg people .. just hanging on getting thru the days… nothing yo be enthused about.. record earnings and watch the raises will be pathetic
Well he's out now to take a hatchet to something far more important. Hopefully- Lyons comes from a company that has a solid culture and seemed to treat its employees well.
Don’t kid yourself. ALL of this was always part of the plan. I was on some of the early executive calls with Frank. We’re talking way back in 2019, this was what he wanted you could tell by his comments. All that needed to happen was some of the workforce trends and narratives to change for him to start lying and implementing his methods. “Our clients want us in the office”. No, they don’t care they want results and deliverables. Which can be done no matter where we are. We proved it in 2020. “Better Together”. Sure, like it matters where im sitting on my teams calls. Thats all anyone does, this fantasy were all in conference rooms together all day is pathetic. He installed his people, ran a muck with his out of touch tired old ways and had ZERO understanding of how the real Fiserv actually worked, and cratered the knowledge base which was always our strength. Frank is a phony, a house of cards who only knows how to cut to prop up revenue. The results are the long looks and sh---y moral of all the employees still there that actually still care. Its outright shameful men like Frank are able to do what they do to once a solid, profitable, well run great place to work. And for those original leaders who allowed this man to warp your vision and management style, you need to look in the mirror and preferably quit.