RTO full 5 days now.
Have until 3/10 to comply or make arrangements, however it is encouraged to begin coming into the office immediately.
Email states if you are not assigned or based out of a Fiserv office, you are to continue your current work arrangements.
They're still permitting flexible times in Workday to accommodate special situations where WFH is necessary.
@b2+1jkgfew1t - Please tell me you are kidding. Cr-ppy joke.
To all of those like @az+1jkgfew1t that are so worried about the affects on frankserv of all of this supposed "time theft", especially on WFH days. You keep saying you were hired for a certain number of hours at a certain time. Its funny that you're telling on yourself. You're the Mcdonalds workers frank keeps talking about every quarter. You can be replaced with a fresh trainee that is up to speed in a few weeks.
Me, and several people I work with are highly skilled technologist hired to perform a technical function, generate substantial amounts of revenue, or to solve complex problems your brain probably can't begin to understand. I wasn't hired to punch a clock. I was hired to do a job.
The company knows this too, which is why they hired me on a salary, and not a wage. They KNOW that a salary means I'm meant to do a job, and that in doing that job, if I occassionally get done 3 hours before the guy next to me doing the same thing, then it's none of their business. And if I want to step away and chat about video games for 30 minutes with a few other high achievers that did the same as me, that isn't a problem. Because they also know the flip side is true. If a system blows up 15 minutes before quiting time, and I have to stay and work for another 15 or 20 hours, I'm there doing it, because I'm not there to punch a clock, I'm there to do a job.
Now, since we already know your skill level, let me assist you in finding your way to where you actually belong while the adults and professional continue the conversation here. Please check the link below to get back to your comfortable home:
https://www.thelayoff.com/mcdonald-s
It is funny how mad everyone is who wants their WFH slack off day. Nope. This is the right call for sure. Get yourself back in that office. You are not paid to run errands, watch kids, or do any of that. Do your job.
Reminder to use your lunch breaks to interview for new roles (:
If we actually had a cube to return to it would be a little different. I have a desk at the office and calling it a desk is a stretch. A monitor screen separates me from my worker. Other companies would be ashamed of the list office but not Fiserv
Shouldn't be having kids then.
Do you have kids? I can't get into the office early M-T because I have to drop them off at school on the morning. Friday's I get to login early and work for an hour instead of commutting, then take 15 minutes to drop my kids off and return home to work. The earlier out time let's me have more time with them when they get out of school and/or let's me schedule appointments between 3-5pm so I don't have to take PTO or do it during work hours.
Use your brain and stop assuming everyone is a slacker.
I'm free to do whatever the fu-k I want during my lunch hour.
We all got hired to work when we promised we would, either in the office or at home. We didn’t get hired to run errands on company time.
If that sounds like I’m pro-Frank then you’re delusional.
Ah yes, fiserv continues to show how much they trust their employees.
RTO mandates.
Sapience / badge swipe tracking.
Cyberark password vaulting. There are certain functions that require people to know their passwords to do their jobs... but yet they've been told to raise an incident so that some off-shore worker can provide it - essentialy giving them the same access as the person requesting it. Great security model, especially when those accounts are highly privledged within the environment.
ap+1jkgfew1t
Mentalities like yours is why companies get away with this bullsh-t. Let's talk about the bigger picture here for a second.
We all got hired with a salary that is a reflection of the flexibility this schedule offered. This has been eroded over the past year with no compensation to accommodate for this change. Why should we accept the cost of an extra day of commuting and wear/tear on our vehicles without any pay increase? We need negotiating power against them.
Maybe the only thing they will listen to is a strike every Friday until they give us the day back or give everyone a raise to make up for this lost flexibility. Fu-k you Frank.
Jp Morgan and the Federal Government announced it weeks ago. It was inevitable. It’s where Frank came and where he is headed. Surprised anyone finds this unexpected. Many financial services are following suit and plenty of roles out there that is the expectation. Only rec is if you don’t want to do 5 days here, like myself, find somewhere you will enjoy going to office. Best of luck to all
I interpreted scheduled appointments as doctors and anything else that requires you to leave the house. People coming in to do work is different. I get that.
@ap+1jkgfew1t
you've never used your lunch hour to run an errand?
@ap+1jkgfew1t has apparently never had to schedule the HVAC company to come do maint. Or the yard people to do their thing. You're not stepping away for longer than it takes to answer a door. No different than being disrupted by a teams call. It doesn't take a large degree of imagination to see what the comment meant. Just the ability to engage your brain and consider others for 30 seconds.
JP Morgan and the Federal government announced it weeks ago. It was inevitable. It’s where Frank came from and where he’s going. A lot of financial services companies are following suit and it is common amongst roles out there now. Only words is put yourself first, and if you don’t want to do 5 days here, like myself, find somewhere where you would.
The RTO policy is a double standard. What about all the fully remote leaders? The VPs that are telling their teams “it’s just the way it is, this is the direction the company is going” - while sitting in the comfort of their own homes.
This policy should apply to all.
I don’t understand this reply:
“No more work life balance. I made appointments on Fridays…”
Appointments means you were skipping out on work. Fridays weren’t days off.
As a trusted employee I've had the ability to work remote long before covid. The whole thing was managed by my direct leader with the guidance of more in-office days than not. If anyone on the team was over-doing it, they were quickly brought back into line. The process was flexible but fair and showed that our manager trusted us enough as directors to manage our own time. Now we're all basic hourly employees without overtime, breaks or lunch. I'd blame trump but its really the entire mentality of all major business leaders today, they want to make americans unhappy so they can transfer the jobs to lower cost countries.
I am not sure how many more ways they will find for us to quit. I will be just doing the best I can until they lay me off with severance.
as some point y'all gotta figure out the rage baiters on the internet
Scuddle the ship
We were hybrid before Covid, at least many of the divisions were, no one I worked with was ever forced to be in 5 days a week until now so all this before Covid BS needs to stop, we were never mandated 5 days in a week.
yet they still have leaders in Payments that are responsible for 10 people and 20 people that still work Remote. In another state. Nice double standard.
true we worked in office 5 days before covid, but now additional 9 hrs badge time and 8 hrs sapience malware to enjoy
If you don't live near an office, this won't apply to you.
Instead, they will probably ask you to move or be let go... due to "in office culture" whatever that means.
What an awful, shortsighted company....better in person to sit on teams....can't get out of here soon enough...
Also whoever is saying 5 days before Covid thats a horrible analogy, people also used to smoke in the office, should we go back to that?
My son is almost at driving age now, so I totally get needing the balance. All my providers are near home not the bloody office.
Now it will eat more PTO just doing appointments through years.i hate this fu--ing place.
No more work life balance. I made appointments on Fridays, but now it doesnt matter what day of the week. I feel bad for those who have small children or family members to care for. Also, Fiserv pushes well being, what for, when they continue to stress us the f out and continue to pi-s us off. What a joke of a company!
"You literally worked in office 5 days before covid. Quit slacking and get back to work! You guys are such babies!"
Some number of people were wfh BEFORE covid but you wouldn't know that because you are a dum--ss.
Go back to licking those boots...
Then that means a some people I know who moved during Covid are out of a job.
Does this entitle us to 5 hours of overtime pay a week?
My boss just called. I live nowhere near an office been wfh for 10 years. Was told in office or no job.
45 hours a week in office, great
Yep...yep....mmhhmm...just keep cutting down the trees until it's Easter Island.
What if we all just don't follow this and submit a WFH request every Friday? Leave all the offices empty. Fu-k this company
Embarrassing as a company. Every manager I talked to hates it. Every employee I talked to hates it. You wonder why surveys and Glassdoor show such a hatred towards the org and FB. Clients are upset and pi---d, have been for years. Maybe invest in your own company instead of firing and forcing workers to hate you to raise the stock price.
You’ve cut my team and I’m doing 3 jobs with no raise, no additional PTO. Employees are overworked. Luckily I will be out of here by the mandate, I wish the best to y’all and my department. Have to put myself first. I recommend you do the same if you don’t want to be here.