FN1 and FN2 were at max capacity today and then some. The (small) cafeteria was full of workers using the tables as their desk for the day, folks were working at corners of desks and had to sit away from their teams. This was at 8:45 AM, not 10 AM. It's so hard to focus during endless Teams class while folks are wandering around trying to locate a desk or spot to camp out. Someone likened it to the Spirit Airlines of office places.
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@f0 Hey, careful there - the vests help keep them safe.
Ford Land. LOL Walking around in that stupid vest shows how incompetent they are by itself.
@d2, 250 work days less 42 vacation days/ sick/ comp days, we have 208 days total which is less than 4 badge swipes per week. And don’t forget we also have 17 company holidays as well. So there’s a good chance we’re all going to receive the nasty warning email from HR
@ds Go ask all the business majors running Ford Land if they know what a "hypotenuse" is. The percentage of them that answer correctly will be less than the percentage of engineers that can find desks in their offices.
@d2 I would expand on your analysis from an engineering standpoint: The formula is square root of the hypotenuse of the room divided by the cosine of the angle of the dangle * number of shoes worn by employees = 4. If the number of shoes is miscalculated by assuming that all employees wear 2 shoes then you have a problem with your seating. So by extrapolation, we can see that we do not have enough 1 legged employees.
@d3 when Ford Land explained their math in the Industrial Excellence town hall last month, Kumar's reaction was like it was the first time he had heard about it.
The executives are actually so stupid that they blindly trusted Ford Land's statements that there was enough capacity and never asked for the data.
What the he-l happened to "create clarity using data and facts"? If I got Inconsistent for that, every member of the ELT should get Inconsistent.
@d2 you are missing one important step at the very beginning of the math. According to Ford Land, only 80% of employees need a desk. The others can work from a couch or a cafeteria. So based on your calculations, 4 seats can actually accommodate 7.5 people. 80% of 7.5 is 6 people, which you started your math with.
@cy Let me explain how Ford Land math works:
First, you have to assume that everyone's WFH days are evenly spread out so you only need 80%*6, which is 4.8 seats per day.
Then, assume everyone uses 15 vacation days, 10 sick days, 7 volunteering days, 5 comp days, and 5 days at suppliers every year, for a total of 42 days. There are about 250 working days in a year so that is 17% of working days. We can therefore cut 17% of our seats requirement so it becomes 83%*4.8, which is 4 seats per day.
That is how 4 seats will be enough for your 6 member team. As Ford Land has said many times, they have rigorously gone through the data and performed this analysis to make sure every team has enough seats.
We have a team of 6. They gave us 4 seats because that’s how the Ford Land math works.
Management is genius, keep desk inventory low to drive more of you to show up earlier and earlier. The goal is for you to donate extra time to the company while Daddy Management counts the money from your efforts.
@a7, Ford loss market share to foreign automakers is not because employees complaining about poor work space, it’s because poor management, expensive car with poor quality. Which foreign automakers are sourcing engineering to Brazil, white collar jobs to Mexico, and hire H1B workers to replace domestic jobs. If you treat your employees poorly, laying them off to boost your bonuses, then don’t expect loyalty, don’t expect quality work!
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Spot on. Performance reviews are directed to specifically rank a quota percentage of employees low, regardless whether its warranted or not. The on-site mandate is ridiculous and ill prepared. People are being tracked daily & singled out for legitimate absences like vacation. Farley & his minions are clueless knee je-k reactions. When the employee survey came back negative for whether folks thought the company direction is on track, their response was that middle management is not communicating it effectively. Maybe losing $1.5 billion each quarter & continuing to throw more money down the EV black hole while the rest of the company assets which actually make money are on a shoe strip and crumbling could be part of it Jimbo. This bozo walked away with a $24M bonus last year, and for what?
Ford is being led by id--ts. Meanwhile these same id--ts are covertly separating people with 2-3x the expertise so there will be nobody left with more knowledge than them which really doesn't say much. Bill F. Is just letting these people destroy the company so they can line their pockets.
Bi--h, Bi--h, Bi--h This why Ford and GM is losing it to foreign automakers.
I was there before 7:30am today and most desks were taken. People were pi---d
I felt like I was at the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, stationed at the Network Manager Operations Centre in Brussels, Belgium, where I was evaluating and testing Flight Suspension Acknowledgement and Associated Position Report messages.