There are plans for laying off the remote employees w/o poss relocation to HQ in December. They think it will be too messy to offer remote workers option to move.
These may get pushed back to Jan/Feb.
The board has been coming into the office several days a week even during the pandemic. This is not about productivity, it’s about satisfying an unfounded perception from the board that also meets the cut numbers they want for profitability.
@f4 you acting like this isnt the company who refuse to implement any rollbacks in case the merger failed… they do questionable things all the time
@f4 False. I was a remote employee that built an entire crucial app for the company and was still laid off. Everyone is expendable and they don't care how important you are to keep this sh-t show running.
I don't know what info you have, but I am skeptical of this. I'm not remote (in fact I'm quite jealous of those who are), but many remote FTEs are absolutely crucial to Kroger's operations. My current team is extremely important, and the majority of our members are remote FTEs including the most important roles. If they were laid off, there would be quite literally no one who could replace them. They're the only ones who know how our sh-t works.
Also, I'm sure there's people working remote right now for disability reasons (whether real or made up to avoid the office) and I'm sure Kroger couldn't just lay off a bunch of people for something they can't control.
If they go through with what your describing that would be undoubtedly the stupidest decision they've made yet throughout this RTO situation and would cause incredible damage to the company. If this is real, I appreciate you sharing, but I'll believe it when I see it.
@a9 they can. They will fire state side remote and talk about how they did it because they want people to collaborate in person more and how it brings out the best… then hire more offshore people.
They can't or they would have already done it. There's a still a ton of them and Kroger can't recruit enough talent locally.
As long as I get my severance