Going back to the office 5 days a week starting on January 5th? No work life balance? It sounded like we can’t even work from home to take or kid to a doctors appointment?
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I encourage people to push back on the RTO. I took some time this week and wrote letters to the board and upper management. I stated why I think RTO is not the right move and provided evidence proving that remote work is better for the company and employee in the long run.
They might not care about one letter but I think we all should be giving this feedback. Be factual but also explain how it is affecting your life negatively.
Emails are easy to ignore but tons of letters arriving to corporate will get noticed.
Ron is interim so maybe if we all show our displeasure we can get some changes made.
We have to go beyond complaining to other another and our immediate supervisor.
If anyone is interested I would be happy to share the studies I submitted.
I could be delusional but what could we lose?
Read the overemployment guidelines... they tell people to freeze the Work Number, to use a different name at both jobs (go by middle name at one, first name at the other), hibernate your LinkedIn, leave the previous job off your resume, etc. People are doing this and doing it well. There probably aren't that many people truly doing this but there are enough that companies are cracking down.
@e0 it's extremely easy to catch people working multiple jobs. The work number(w2 tax provider) does it for the corporations actually.
@e7 Excelletn point. I put this on a different thread in this forum, and it 100% applies to what you say here:
"It's mind boggling how many catastrophic failures Yael can make, and how much money he can waste, and still have a job.
Payroll rollout issues, seamless ship, and now the automated fulfillment centers that he touted as cutting edge not long ago.
Oh well, he can cover up the money wasted by laying off more people who were brave enough to disagree with him."
Very few people are working multiple remote jobs.
Sh-t policies that alienate the workforce and make the workforce distrust the company is what drives people to have multiple remotr jobs.
I haven’t felt on solid ground going on five years at this company. It’s been a miserable, sh---y experience all around for literally no fu--ing reason other than greed.
This company will NOT be able to compete with the likes of Amazon at this rate. The workforce just will not give a sh-t because everyone is an accounting artifact to these cheap, wrinkled suits that keep filling our outlook calendars with useless middle management drivel.
here’s an idea: fire jim and yael for lording over failure after failure and save the company $10M+ a year in payroll and for destroying any morale or goodwill in IT across the company.
there’s not a single person on my team from the most junior level to director positions who plan to bend over backwards to do their job well anymore after seeing how horrible this company is to their staff
WTF kind of work/life balance do you have when you never leave work because you're at home all day?
You and your kind are fu--ing delusional. Go to work, leave work when you're done. THAT'S work/life balance you id--t.
From what I understand, for KTD in Associate Experience, there is still flexibility to work from home if you have a sick kid, expecting a package, home repairs, sick yourself, etc. That is what our VP and manager told us. Along with what others said here (tax breaks, wanting to get people to quit to avoid severance) I would say overemployment is driving part of the push to RTO. They don't want people working multiple remote jobs. It is more prevalent than people know.
It's hilarious how they completely ignore any feedback. The #1 feedback was that the RTO was a NEGATIVE policy and that no one wanted it or asked for it. Leadership have zero interest in what the employees want. This company is destroying itself with stupid decisions.
@bh I agree with other posts that it is to help push people who are on the fence to quit and forfeit any severance. Also the city of Cincinnati offered a big tax break to mandate RTO since business around were struggling. I’m sure other cities are offering something similar.
@a3 -100%
Force people out to avoid the severance that comes with layoffs
I wonder what the actual reason is for them being so relentless with this. Absolutely no one believes it is to "enhance collaboration". What could possibly be so important to them that they'd be willing to constantly worsen this extremely unpopular policy that is just growing resentment among their employees? Unless making people want to voluntarily quit is the point. Can't see any other reason for this garbage.
@b3 true but it has to be a matter of time. My guess is February something happens, right before bonus.
I'm remote and we were included in the meeting. I don't think they can fully end remote work at this point. Too many crucial technology employees are fully remote.
Is the writing on the wall for remote employees? Odd that they weren’t invited to the meeting right?
Once 5 day RTO hits, I will no longer be taking laptop to my home. Since Kroger does not trust me working from home, I am gonna give them benefit of the doubt by not having my laptop in the evening or on weekends.
Really curious if there is actual guidance that states WFH is prohibited and if you’re not at the office you must be using PTO.
As a remote employee I am tired of feeling alienated from the rest of the org.
I heard this too. Is the guidance saying zero WFH, no exceptions?
@a2 trying to weed people out instead of layoffs? Are layoffs over?
I’m sure being in office 1 more day a week will really turn the company around. When most other companies are finding ways to retain employees, Kroger has done the exact opposite. I’ve heard it’s even worse in the Oregon office than we have it here.