Hope yall are ready for no assigned desk, no privacy, and continue neighbor's phone conversations.
But hey; It helps "Teaming" am i rite?
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@OP obviously you don’t work in San Ramon. It’s the same here.
OK autocorrect really sc--wed me over on that last post. Clearly meant Teams and not Trams or Trans. 😂
Working at Lakeside, where we have had the unassigned model for about a year. It works well if you can find a focus room to take long Trams calls. However, between interns, consultants, & other visitors, lately I’ve observed a full house effect that pushes people to take long calls in open workspace. And then not only are you disturbing your neighbors, but Trans picks up conversations FROM your neighbor. It’s really bad. Get ready for that fun dynamic in HOU.
If you can’t recognize this for the demoralization exercise that it is, you’re not gonna make it.
As if living in Houston isn’t bad enough, now we have to commute insane commutes to work at a shared desk
This is an ergo problem waiting to happen. Some people are prone to carpal tunnel, and have the desks, chairs, and split keyboards dialed in to not cause any ergo RSIs. Having to do that everyday is a huge unproductive time su-k.
Going to an office with nowhere in particular to sit, logging into a series of Teams calls and trying to talk over the other people around you, the sitting in Houston traffic to get home. The cubicle farm of the 80s and 90s sounds like nirvana in comparison.
We were one of the early adopters and its quite liberating. So used to it now.
It might be better to move somewhere else rather than complaining about open seating.
@ca see if you can spend the whole day never using your badge to open a door….we will know if you’ve been in or not and when you left, but hang on it’s not about the time your a-s spends in the office it’s about what you accomplish, the place is full of people hiding in plain sight
@e0+1jyj8hsrc, If you mean a perfect excuse to let you go, then you've got it.
I take the meeting room’s sanitizing wipes .. they didn’t even have assigned lockers for us …. It was a cr-p show.
It’s ok. We are just here to collect a pay check and go home. Not going to over extend ourselves. You treat us a certain way and we return the favor by showing u what u asked for.
@dv wait, you guys get sanitizing wipes? we were promised that but never got them.
It is what it is. Do whatever, no one cares anymore. This is when you know morale su-ks. Ppl just raise their arms up and say, “idgaf - do whatever u want. Don’t expect me to do more in this lousy environment.”
The 33/34 floor already flex space. No one knows where anyone is. We just come in, pick an office and spend 15 mins sanitizing, getting keyboard ready and then close doors and teams all day. We grab some snacks through out the day and then go back to office and teams again.
Please someone explain how you accomplish centralization to HOU, acquiring Hess, return to working in the office 4 days a week without drastically reducing space allotted per person or leasing out more office space?
I get more done at Starbucks in the tunnel than in the office. Except at lunch time.
Just have to get used to sitting on the street outside to get anything done.
@c9 and unfortunately, most of those companies from that era no longer do hoteling, with the exception of consulting firms
Just another means by which to cut costs. Maximize shareholder returns while minimizing employee’s sense of value.
I like the idea nobody will know where in the building I am on any given day..
I worked at a different company in 2000 and we had this concept. I understand it’s new at Chevron and I like having a desk but this style of “hoteling” has been around for more than 20 years.
XOM here - "neighborhoods" (open concept seating) = terrible. loud, impersonal, uncomfortable
@c5 people in 1400 have already been told they no longer have assigned seating and on which floors beginning July 1st. An email was sent out on the 13th.
Get real. Top floors aren’t opening until fall, nearly 18 months after the window damage. We’ll lose our desks sometime in 2030 when they finally finish the whole building.
Ummm…. I get an office with my new position. I guess you need to do better to get out of cubicle land.
@bw and copying Exxon has never failed us before, right?
Exxon uses unassigned work spaces?
Exxon is industry defining. Been doing it for years now.