Thread regarding Bank of America layoffs

It seems to me that every year the company announces some unpopular policy shortly after the survey closes, at which time my teammates say that they had wished they had pro-actively spoken out against the new policy which, in hindsight, seemed obvious.
Most comments here seem to be related to how many days employees should be required to work at a bank office location, as opposed to from home.

As I prepare to fill out the survey, what other top issues should I consider opining on?

@27s Our manager is decent, so I will give good rankings because - we could end up worse. Having said that, I blasted about the in office policies and draconian measuring of being in the office.

Zeros across the board for everyone's manager will send a good message.

Our power is in Not Responding.

Saying Nothing -- and NOT participating -- is the loudest message of all.

(it's not like the comments will change anything anyway. Or at least nothing meaningful.)

If they have to report "engagement" is down, and BTM does not get his annual employee participation trophy, THAT will make mngt p-e its collective pants.

F-em.

The survey doesn't matter. They insist that everyone wants to be in-office yet they have to rely to threats and punishment to get people to come in. When logic like that, your feedback is worthless to them and they will do as they please regardless.

@k9 unfortunately at BoA and much of corp America they are not different. engagement is literally the word used to mean participation

and here is your annual reminder that responses 'neither agree or disagree' or whatever the middle of the road choice is called get tossed out DO NOT COUNT for anything! don't do that one. you have to go with one of the other 4 for the answer to get counted!!

Engagement and participation are 2 different things. Not taking the survey doesn’t matter and will do nothing. Low scores impact engagement.

Not completing the survey will speak louder than any response within the survey. If you aren’t happy with your management, don’t complete it.

Folks- the only # that is reported to the street and cared about by leadership is the employee engagement % number = % of employees who submitted the survey. Don’t believe me? Look at the past 5 years of annual reports. Simply states what a great company to work at with ~85% of our employees love to work here since they are “engaged” and cared enough to complete the survey. That it. Looks great since it hovers at 85% yoy for the past 5 years. Nothing else is mentioned in the annual report re: areas of opportunities. I’m passing Thank you

I also heard 8 hour a day attestation. First was about a month ago from my band 3 managing director. Second was from a coworker in another line of business who said his band 3 managing director warned them all of the same mandate coming. So it was probably true at some point. I hope Legal squashes it.

Agree 100%

During our team meeting today when the survey came up, my manager encouraged everyone on the team to comment on WFH and voice their displeasure about any rumored changes. My manager told us to drive the point home that if we don't want any change then say it. That blew my mind because my manager comes across as Mr. Bank of America. Btw, my manager does not have assigned seat. I don't think anyone wants the current Workplace Excellence rules to change which includes managers. These BOA higher ups are the worse and I can't wait for the email full of lies.

@dm What is with the 8 hours cr-p???? If I get a call after hours in which I spent EIGHT hours physically in the office, I will respond that it will have to wait until the next day. Yea, like that is going to happen. The HR pseudo RTO bean counters need to understand that FORTY HOURS a week equates to FORTY HOURS for that period. How I balance the FORTY HOURS is my responsibility on how I do my job to support internal and external customers. Who comes up with these ridiculous policies? Survey says, Senior Executives who are trying to bump out each other to be next in line for succession to CEO. I rather have BM stay as CEO until he is 75 years old. I will be gone before then!!!

In NY/ NJ we hear the new in office requirements are being communicated end of May. Hold off on the survey until we see what the announcement is. Supposed to be 4 days for those with an assigned office and 3 non consecutive days for everyone else. And we are supposed to attest online that a day in the office is 8 hours. Hope it's not true.

@ce they don't care about what you write on the survey they just care that you complete it.

I haven't done it in a couple years now which su-ks because I really like my manager and do think the higher higher ups should know that she's one of those people you don't ever let leave. I recently spoke to her manager and made sure to let her know directly so at least I was able to make it known to somebody.

I’m not completing it. I can have more of an impact but messing up my team’s 100% engagement. It’s the one stat they can’t manipulate. It’ll drive them nuts.

@cn The Survey is semi-anonymous.. Years ago our teammate gave the Bank all 1's. Management didn't know who gave the 1's but they knew who their manager was. They cam down hard on our manager who then was forced to make all of us find positive articles on the Bank and read them aloud to the group every meeting for 1 month for punishment.

They want you to complete the survey so the b@ll lickers can strengthen there Ego. Asi they need it to weed out those who truly express there opinion on what team truly needs. Once weeded they can offshore or hire an h1b employee who will speak wonders about the managers.

I want to blast my manager with 1s and write in comments, because it's very well deserved, but I am concerned because we all know the survey is not anonymous.

Pathetic salary increases (even for Exceeds rated)
Minuscule bonuses
Office requirements - why can't managers get training on how to manage their already remote teams instead of making the staff go into an office 3x a week? If the job gets done, leave the employee alone.

@ce Number of completions are more important than the metrics from the survey. I'm still waiting for our group's feedback from last year's survey and the years before. You can complete the survey if your responses satisfy your own emotions towards BofA. Otherwise, don't waste your time.

Is it better to fill it out and criticize, or not fill it out to send a message of non-engagement?

If you are against Workplace Excellence, please leave feedback in the survey. Otherwise what do we get? More Workplace Excellence.

I would admire the fact that they have a survey, if they did not force everyone to complete it. They should not present it as anonymous, when it is widely understood that it is not.