Are more remote worker layoffs coming in August? Is the goal to layoff every remote worker?
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@gg" people who go in the office. They take walks for a hour, eat lunch for another hour. Shoot the sh!t for a couple of hours"
Wow it's so busy in an office
@c2 that’s not true. We were hybrid prior to covid
"Technically, youre leaving one, not taking one. "
I'm going to need the phantom $hitter's perspective here.
Technically, youre leaving one, not taking one.
There isn't always toy let paper so you need to ingress your attempted egress otherwise you have a messy problem to deal with.
I see the dedicated people who go in the office. They take walks for a hour, eat lunch for another hour. Shoot the sh!t for a couple of hours, attend meetings and maybe get 2-3 hours of actual work in.
The offices aren’t crazy busy. Mondays and Fridays are dead. If you don’t have a reason to come in. Don’t. If you do then do it.
@bw great lawsuit waiting to happen if fired due to (approved) remote status
@cg not quite true. It‘s just more expensive to fire in Europe
@fb this is hilarious
Last time i went to work i could not find a parking space and I went back home.
Nope!
"You’re taking a dump for 1 hour"
Technically, youre leaving one, not taking one.
Youre welcome
It all depends if you're hitting the number.
Badges access infos are no longer being given to managers. SVPs will need to make the case for those breaking the rules. The bar for that will continue to rise.
@bw please tell us which policy exactly do they breach? I've done my best but failed to locate that mentioned RTO policy document anywhere in the intranet. How can one be in breach of something that is not even officially published? They can be in breach of MD's mandate, but certainly not the policy.
@ck if that's how much dedicated you are when in the office, then I can't imagine when working from home.
Just because you’re in the office for “8 hours” doesn’t mean you’re actually working “8 hours.” You’re taking a dump for 1 hour, talking to coworkers for 2 hours, walking around looking “busy” for 2 hours, etc. Remote workers are more efficient and usually more happy.
Remotes are not any more vulnerable than office staff for wfr.
You can’t compare NA and EU countries when it comes to HR policies. Compared to US policies where you can fire for no reason, EU countries don’t hire - they adopt employees.
What happened to “flexible work hours”?
I agree with HR above. All these people who are breaking the policies are behaving unethically. When people like us go to the office for a minimum of 8 hours (or more) five days a week, it’s unfair that we should be considered for layoffs instead. They’re still clinging to the COVID hangover. Guys, we are back to the times we had before COVID—so stop complaining and get your a-s to the office every day. Otherwise, you know very well that you are being tracked, and it’s only a matter of time. Anyway, your job can now be easily done much cheaper by a junior offshore employee with the help of AI.
HR in EMEA, there is no plan to target remote workers if approved to be remote.
There are many who should be going to office but aren't, they are breaking policy and in my opinion will be targeted first. Yet there is no known plan to do so either.
Remotes arex it being targeted
Yes and Yes.
Be afraid, be very afraid.