To determine your commute, Dell's SRO geo fence information integrates street data from authoritative sources for mapping and navigation. The data is saved every four hours to develop predictive traffic analyses. The drive time layer is based on road type, elevation, and speed limit, excluding worst-case scenarios like roadblocks and traffic jams, and does not account for alternative commuting options such as mass transit, biking, or walking. The geo fence predictive analyses then maps team members within a 60 min commute to the Dell office based on your home address listed in Workday.
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This is the most innovative thing Dell has produced in years. Quite the analysis/process to make sure they fu-k over the right people.
"I have a car, but considering car prices these days, I'll be taking mass transit. problem is, dell says im about 45 mins each way by car (no traffic). nope."
Show us where Dell said it is 45 minutes for you. Also, it is your choice not to drive your car, but expecting a company to pay your car note, insurance, mileage, gas and give you a raise for coming in is hysterical. You all have a severe sense of entitlement these days.
4-6 hour roundtrip by public transit for me per day.
I have a car, but considering car prices these days, I'll be taking mass transit. problem is, dell says im about 45 mins each way by car (no traffic). nope.
with traffic? 2.5-3 hours per day.
and as mentioned above by mass transit, 4-6 hours per day.
Unless i get a raise and get my mileage covered, im taking the bus. and if i have to leave to catch my bus home in the middle of something? so be it.
@fj+1jmsr0xnc Bro is literally suggesting putting 12 hours in at the office gfy
the easy way to reduce your transit time is old fashion common sense. If you leave home before 645AM and wait until traffic lightens up - say 645PM - you should in most cases be able to reduce your commute to less than an hour. Just my observations.
Someone seems guilty of not really working from home and collecting a paycheck. The jig is up, see you Monday!
"...Stealing from the company?" 1). What happened to the "work from anywhere" motto that was (corporately) boasted about a couple years back? 2). What about the choice we were given in March 2024? 3). Modernize the world with AI? Sure, while all you little people stress about getting into a dirty office (I'm sure HVAC has not been cleaned; sick building syndrome AWAITS! ) 4). "Stealing!?" People should go into an office, yet there will be no gyms on site/s open (SCIENCE has PROVEN SITTING ALL DAY IS THE worst thing for your HEALTH). RTO, but we wont be buying "office supplies" for getting work done; guess we should buy INK for printers too? Better yet, I should wheel in my own printer (every day since I wont have an assigned CUBE), that I BOUGHT when I was TOLD I could work remotely 100%!
- . "Stealing?!" Lets talk about how other countries have labor laws in place (told directly from a peer in another country) that prevent them from being TOLD to RTO 5 days a week. 6). "Stealing?" Then there should be no "address discrimination," RTO ..is RTO, no matter HOW far away you live.
Let's face it, this is about real estate SITTING EMPTY!!!!! And perhaps corps can't get tax credits/breaks with mostly empty buildings? It has been PROVEN that remote workers get more done and work longer hours than when commuting to dirty office buildings and being essentially chained to a desk/cube 8 hours a day.
- . "Stealing!??" WORKING for any company is an "AGREEMENT." A company has tasks/needs/requirements = WORK in order to produce/sell goods/SERVICES; people have the skills/talents/expertise to get it (work) done. NO company is "GIFTING" us a paycheck; WE perform the "work" for that money, and if we are NOT keeping our part of the AGREEMENT (getting work) DONE, then let US go. But it is not humanly right to dictate to employees after giving us a choice. As human beings, not robots (yet) we don't live solely to WORK; WORK is a NECESSITY, one that should not be USED against us. Typically, humans in 2025, do not appreciate being told "you WILL return to office 5 days a week" AFTER ADJUSTING our lives NUMEROUS WAYS in the past 5 years b/c MOST of the world worked remote! Why WAIT this long for this EO!? (logic please) And touting that they "TRULY care about WORK-LIFE balance," needs to go on MUTE! It is 2025! People are not "stealing" b/c they have found and have something to say about it (via the (forced on us) PLANDEMIC) that working remote is more efficient and creates THE BEST "WORK-LIFE" balance. This is a mere example of WHY labor UNIONS were formed! Bring on the QQ.
They want you to be miserable so you will quit and not get laid off and be paid severances. Its not about logic. It's about pain and suffering. Stop trying to make illogical things logical. It's not meant to be logical sadly.
"If you disagree with this change, you should discuss your conserns with your leader, particularly if you believe your commuting distance is unreasonable (i.e., consistently exceeds one hour) and you'll need to provide evidence to support your concerns."
They are the once changing the status quo, they should be providing evidence.
Removing accounting for traffic jams is a joke since traffic jams are a dailly thing! I cant do 100km/h with stationary traffic in front of me.
Not including public transport for those of us who have no car is discrimination.
What evidence do they expect us to provide? I'm an adult, take my word for it and look back at the last decade of remote work that i have done successfully and treat me like one!
Do they track your current location via this geo-fencing or only use it to calculate time from home address in Workday to office?
What? What tool are you talking about? MD said about an hour. That's not clear.
"I can guarantee that with this method, they're going to say I'm within an hour"
Yup, my drive to the office is 80-90 mins if there's basically no traffic, I hitcall the lights green, and I go 10-15 MPH over the speed limit. I was told a few days ago that it was determined that I live within an hour of the office and I am expected to be in the office starting March 3rd. What an absolute joke, gas alone is going to cost me about $5k per year (based on today's gas prices). I'll need a 7.8% raise this year just to break even on the gas costs.
"Exclude traffic jams" equals to exclusion of all early/late evening calls altogether..
"The drive time layer is based on road type, elevation, and speed limit"
its a speed limit not a target. Is Dell encouraging us to drive dangerously to get to work for them?
Is Dell also discriminating on those whom do not have access to private transport and rely on public transport?
So much for Dell's so called green credentials, they would rather we all pollute in private cars sitting in traffic jams than use public transport when most of us have been performing our jobs perfectly well for years remotely.
This applies to anyone in Phase I countries who live within an hour of an office according to this new SRO geo locator. If you're far away from an office, you can still work remote (for now, until they decide they want to change that, too).
face it,the party is over.You now have a real job with a real commute.Embrace it or hit the bricks
The future...delete "US government" insert "Dell"
US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign - the latest development in the Trump administration's efforts to scale back the federal workforce.
The email came after Trump's billionaire confidante Elon Musk posted on X that employees would "shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week".
"Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation," he wrote.
This still only for those who used to be remote? Hybrid to Office always?
Here I thought we were all responsible adults. In what world do they live in, that traffic is not a thing? But sure, I’ll spend 3 1/2 hours a day in my car to go sit in an office when the rest of my team is spread out across the world. But that’s OK, I can wave to them on Teams. From the office. That it took me 3 1/2 hours to get to.
I don’t have one team member that I collaborate with here. My own leader is in a different country altogether. And that makes sense because…?
Stop making excuses. Go into the office and do some work!
"Excludes traffic jams". What a joke
I have mapped myself to work. According to my mapping, the drive would be more than an hour. I can guarantee that with this method, they're going to say I'm within an hour since they are not factoring in traffic, construction, or any other situations they are calling "worst-case scenarios".
No need for any this. Grow up people. Map yourself to work. Within an hour, get in you car and drive in to work for the day. Pretty cut and dry. If that is too difficult, how do you manage to make it through the day?! It's not difficult. Stop stealing from the company and start earning your paychecks.
Exclude traffic jams???