Today Congress voted to bring all the politicians back inside. Covid days are over. What's that mean? All those overpaid employees sitting at home taking care of their kids, balancing their checkbook, cleaning dishes etc MAY get their notice to move to the hubs or leave the company as has been done in the past. Others have had to do it, I don't know why they couldn't do it again for another 25 million bonus. We will see.
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They've been hiring remote only claims employees in Tennessee, Florida and Missouri for express and total loss. They can't hire enough people in the hubs. It's not just former loc people who are remote. It's starting to be new hires as well. Claims can't exactly slack when working remote since they track everything
It would be a massive savings on overhead costs to have minimal offices and a mostly WFH labor force.
Soon we find out if they actually care about lowering costs, or just like to bully their front line workers in person.
Really they should have small offices more scattered across the country than massive expensive hubs in bo-m-towns with crazy rent and traffic and exploding costs of living. This would allow people to live in more cost friendly places but still be somewhat close to an office if needed. This would make too much logical sense, and benefit the employee, so I wont hold my breath....I feel executives see anyone below manager status as petulant children who need to be watched sadly.
@eqpn-wow you are really really slow. No this is not about taking away wfh. It is about proving and understanding work can be done virtually-not in offices or hubs. That means MT and crew now realize that it can be done offshore. Enjoy the year or 2 at most you have left-unless you want to work in India. Allstate is well down the road of eliminating their entire claims force. You thinking your job can only be accomplished in the U.S. is laughable. And yes my job is safe, it can’t be outsourced like yours will soon be.
@chwe+1kZAou6Y a little touchy aren't you? What's your point? Yeah, we GET it. I mean, most of us absolutely straight up LOVED State Farm but now we are WFH we are ecstatic!! WFH is the place to be! Not to mention this is a highly entertaining site! Bonus!! But ok, we'll spell it out for you. MT will not take this anyway anytime soon for us because MT is VERY aware of what would result - a MASS EXODUS of the WFH employees, to the literally 1,000s of other permanent remote jobs being offered from other companies since COVID. You might not like him, but golly he didn't get to where he is now by being stupid. He's being very selective of who gets outsourced. Now stop trying to ruin our day, man. Lighten up, MT needs us (or at least MOST of us.) Come to think of it, I have the sneakin' suspicion that you are probably not in the group he needs. Sorry. I suggest staying off this website when you're supposed to be WORKING, because, you know, they COULD be spying on us and all that B.S. While you're at it, go get another snack from the vending machine to make you feel better. Think POSITIVE. We know you're stuck somewhere in a cubicle, we feel for you. Petition to free Harry?
You don’t get it do you ? The “great” work from home experiment established that virtually all the production work could be accomplished virtually. While many are celebrating working from home the plans to off shore the same production work are well underway. Virtual U.S., ritual India-works the same and much cheaper….people are celebrating their own demise.
Come on, now, let's get real. The day we were sent home from working in the offices was one of the happiest days of our lives! They are too afraid to send us back to an office now because they know they will lose thousands of employees with that announcement.
Im not even sure half the people posting here even work for state farm.
- impossible to sit at home all day and do nothing with this company. Not only is every minuet managed by workforce, your computer knows when you are actually working, manipulating the mouse/keyboard to appear to be actively working, and you stepping away for 45 seconds to refill your drink.
- Yes, we are all replaceable, but its not State Farm choosing who leaves, its the good workers walking to find a better employer, leaving the mediocre people. Weve also "replaced" a unique culture that helped us secure a dominant position in the industry for nearly 100 years....and learning you cant just email/sfnet-article a culture back.
- Yes our LOC people are far more knowledgeable and still carry the legacy culture, as the turnover was never as insane as the hubs were, so you still people who remember the company as it use to be.
- yes offshoring is likely going to be an issue moving forward, as the companies care for quality is a distant object in our rearview mirror. I think it would be acceptable by executives to further lower quality to our customers to save money and get a bigger bonus. As a mutual company this is disgusting. Do our customers really want is to become a safeco cut-rate cheapo insurance company? Why ruin what little is left about this companies legacy? Why does the board allow this too keep happening? Is anyone looking out for our owners anymore? I think these are some serious questions that need to be asked...who decided to remove the good neighbor part of state farm and why are they not held accountable?
LOL u sound jealous. I’m sitting here watching TV, smoking a blunt, and taking calls for SF while I type on this page.
Based on knowledge, skill and productivity the Hub zips are going first. Not even close according to executive.
@bin, if you think former LOC folks are valued, you are sadly mistaken. You will be laid off as soon as we replace you with a cheaper version.
Cry me a River. Architects and third parties and architects(so called) and management got rich putting in cr---y systems and process and treating hard workers like cr-p. It’s an integration, data privacy, API farce and nightmare. AI is a joke and consumers are exploited. The folks who never worked outside Farm are rich. How they planned the whole role and project thing. Pathetic really. Calling is risk management and rigorously and transformation is a sick joke at your expense. And US citizens and policyholders and potential policyholders. No wonder nepotism reigns and the same in bed family members run sustems for years. Big pensions and post retirement roles and pensions for those jokers.
Most analysts and scrum members (jokes as well) and protect/systems and employees do elementary and high s hook work for high pay and roles. Sick truth. Then they run everything and get raises and so called promotions and influence. Directors are the worst. . Sick org with zero ethics. HE and Compliance. Another joke. Same suspects. Same money passing. Same childish Management click.
Real life employees actually have to work and earn money, get real skills and work and pay for their own training and attain positions in merit. Not who you know or for going ti U of I or ISU. . Not get it handed to them via d-mb agile roles and tasks any high school student could do for huge pay and bonus and undeserved and uncultivated severance and pensions. Many miles the bu-t kissing nepotistic path a long time. Too long.
People who actually work hard get ridiculed and treated like children for their gain. Wackos run systems. “AI, Einstein Chatbots and Salesforce and CRM”…. Another story/ joke. Great work Farm. Selling our citizens and employees and policyholder data and claimants. Success👎
I just for the life of me can't understand why so many WFH can't seem the replace their smoke detector batteries. Every other one of you I hear chirping in the background. How do you tolerate the sound?
are people still working from home? WTF
Ppl just don’t understand. The tide is turning and the waves are coming at the workers now. ET was the first on many departments that are going to experience layoffs. Outsourcing is coming. Sure you will have a job for a year but then nothing. Stop complaining and focus. What is important to you, if it is remaining with the company then dive in the deep end and start swimming but pace yourselves because this is going to be a very long swim. If you don’t care and are willing to go out in the job market then sit on the side and watch the swimmers go by until you find your new place to work. No shade either way, just being real.
Hope everyone finds peace and happiness where they work.
@1nfx Why? Those of us who work in the customer facing, metrics driven, and understaffed departments know there’s no such thing as messing around all day doing nothing. There is 0% slack in the work day of a claims schlep, and so we’re better off with the extra sleep in the morning and the added personal time in the evening that we gain by not going to the office. So I’ll just you assume you’re referring to some of those jobs people have that are full of fluff and zoom meetings.
Time for everyone to get back into the buildings instead of messing around at home all day doing nothing.
@wug you're replaceable at a cheaper cost.
Like people did not work others when they went into office. . . .
@bin. You're replaceable. Get over the high opinion of yourself. It's time all the LOC employees go through what the rest of us did. You are not elite and can be replaced at a lower cost. FACT!
Most work from home people are working multiple remote jobs mediocrely is what I have read.. that stops if back to office..
The house has the checkbook. Lame duck.
I identify as a she.
The OP is bitter because he moved and many LOC employees did not and are still employed. He doesn’t realize that the LOC employees in the field are the most knowledgeable and most productive in the claims organization. PS would close the hubs before losing the LOC staff.
Not even sure what point you’re trying to make.