Looks like Aetna also made 3 days return to office mandatory. Hearing a similar theme for other companies as well. How do companies all of a sudden make this shift one after the other ? Does some agency or govt folks ask all companies to comply at the same time ?
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I started at another Hartford area insurance company and when I did they asked what days I would be available to come into the office. Not a demand. It could be anything from 1 all 5 days a week. 100% remote was nearly impossible and to be honest I didn’t mind coming being the new person. But the big difference is they asked me, they didn’t tell me. I chose 3 days in the office on my own. There are still lots of good possibilities out there.
The only company that I think is still fully remote is Humana. 90% of their positions are 100% remote at Humana. And maybe UHG/Optum.
Aetna/CVS did a 25 mile radius. They at least had a little more common sense even if it is a garbage policy
It isn’t about local downtown businesses. In CT it is about classifying people as CT state workers who then have to pay CT income tax. A friend of mine is at a very high level in a good sized business and CT governor and someone else had a dog and pony show in 2022 and basically said “your tax breaks are canceled if you don’t have enough CT employees”. The compliance part of it is if someone doesn’t actually work over 50% of the time then they can claim they aren’t a CT employee on their taxes
@ing+1tayb9WV That’s true . I wonder about Cigna’s 8 hour 3 days a week policy though. What do they get out of that?
CT threatened to pull their tax benefits (corporate welfare) if workers didn’t RTO.
Small businesses downtown are dying due to lack of workers, so state & local governments need folks in those empty buildings.