How flexible/hard honestly would it be to ask for 2 days in office vs 4. LM site.. the drive on I4 is getting brutal.
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@t1 the members on my team are given a 6-month exception where they check-in to confirm their permanent disability. However, the layoffs should be based on some merit lol. Some of these folks create more work for us rather than being a contributor.
@t1 if you are part of the plan moving forward and keep abreast of changes it will help you. Just doing the job function isn’t enough to stay long term, they won’t say it explicitly but you’re expected to transform the bank from where you sit.
@bk Out of interest, how are people with GENUINE medical exemptions treated? Have they been targeted?
@bk ELIZA is stupid enough to agree to anything
@he you must check this website every day to see people ask for the privilege of not having to disturb their colleagues during the normal course of business… we all are patiently enduring each other here in compliant office heaven even with the glaring lights, microwaved fish, and chorus of outside voices inside due to headsets
If you worked from the office 5 days pre covid, there is no reason you need to now work from home with a bogus medical exemption.
Get out of your pajamas and get back in the office like the rest of us.
If you really don’t want to RTO or bide time and look for a new job, what I did last year was speak to a therapist. I told them I have social anxiety and going in make me feel awful etc. I got a doctors note for reasonable accommodation and they can’t touch you. I used that time to look for a new job and not worry about RTO, and found a great job that is 2 days a week in office now!
Unless you have a medical exemption BAH employees will be let go by the end of 2026
@cn It's people who used to work at the King of Prussia office in PA and now have to commute to Wilmington, DE. It's a hellish commute from KoP in general, and some of these people live north or west of the old KoP office, so it can easily add more than an hour to their commute (each way).
Just be BFF’s with your boss. My former team has an individual who moved away during the pandemic and is nowhere near one of BNY’s offices. They got an ‘exception’ for this person. And to be clear the work this person is doing isn’t brain surgery, anyone else could train and pick it up easily, I was the back-up for this person.
@ch at Lake Mary site is this common for this much of a commute ? Know jobs are scarce but..
The whole point of RTO is to get people to quit. I know people commuting between three to four hours a day.
Medical exemptions only. They will tell you everyone drives in traffic.
Give it a try because you never know, but I tried and my management said we appreciate your contributions, but if you can't meet the in office requirment look for employment elsewhere...so I did.
started in jan and in the process of looking for a new job 😂. Same reason- commute
This is the same bank that has no system to allow someone to work from home for extended periods due to family emergency.
They won't work with you over a commute. Find a new job or deal with the commute.
BNY takes this so seriously that they’re making Eliza come to work 5x a week now!
Zero chance. The company provides zero flexibility even in the case of family health emergencies.
Easy to ask, probably difficult to obtain (unless you have a medical related exception).
Zero chance unless you want to look for another job! Strict monitoring of swipes and it’s no joke.