Why has no one discussed the FACT that the EMG has picked winners and losers in this RTO farce? Do you not know that they have "grandfathered" huge numbers of employees based on their USAA start dates? It's only something like three years ago, too. What a joke this place is. When you look up an employee on Connect and their status shows something like SA, HM, that HM means they are WFH, and were either "grandfathered", live >60 miles, or have some other type of RTO exception. But EMG says there are "no exceptions to RTO". What a line of BS that is! So, let's pit in-office employees against the WFH employees to create even more anger in the workplace. Divide and conquer. Same thing that's going on in this country as a whole. A house divided cannot stand.
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I moved from remote to Tampa - the drive in Tampa is 45 minutes drive regardless of which office for me.
The changes in expectation for RTO have been constant.
It making other banks who do not have RTO policy very attractive- interviews with one later this week. I sadly think I am not alone - time to go elsewhere.
I work in BSB, and my entire area was out last week with Flu due to someone coming into office to meet the 4 day requirement.
It’s a 14 day rolling calendar is what my team was told.
Is it 13 days per month or 16? I was sick/PTO for 2 days, so I only had 3 days in office for 2 weeks. So, so stupid. Everyone’s getting sick in office rn. And we also don’t have PTO for this sh-t, so the only option is to stay home. But how do you stay home if they’re tracking badge swipes?
No one has said anything to me…
Last i heard was that its four days in office. Thats it.
As far as I can tell there has been a major uptick in managers being asked to account for employees in-office days and why they are out of adherence of the 14 day rolling calendar. It’s been inferred to my team that individuals unable to account for their time will be fired. I’d love to hear from anyone if this does happen as the pressure is real.
No EC member has ever said there will be or are no exceptions.
For tenured Member Contact they were allowed to remain WFH if they chose. New employees that started in like 2022 I believe, were brought in as hybrid and not allowed to "go home" until 6 months and only for 3 days a week. You are right, there is a LARGE amount of employees still working from home per their choice. Mostly member contact though.
Looks like the HR fluffer voting army has clocked in for the day.
RTO had no impact on bonuses... this year. Because the holidays fell right on the time they were trying to get the implementation standardized and they didn't want to deal with it for such a new - and changing - policy. Now that they have standardized reporting running on the 13 days per rolling 4 week period, expect RTO to affect bonuses for 2024.
My money is on VPs' bonus pools being cut if their teams are significantly out of compliance. At the CoSA and enterprise level the bonus pools won't factor in RTO compliance, so that the gravy that gets skimmed for RTO non-compliance will have to go to EMG.
Just a theory.
Commuting 3.25 days a week in the office is still a huge imposition if you were hired as permanent remote and live 55 miles from the office.
Promises made, promises broken.
Um... living >60 miles away is not an "RTO exception". That is literally in the non-fine-print of the policy, and was communicated clearly every time the policy was discussed.
That said, it is an insane distance threshold at which to set such a policy, as 60 miles can easily mean 2 his or more each way in some metro areas. If Wayne actually cared about climate change as much as his ESG propaganda says, the hard cutoff would have been maybe in the 10-20 mile range. But ESG was always a fraudulent joke.
The way i see it is just show up for three days, four once in a while, and only stay till your work is done. Dont stress out if you dont come in four days for only five hour, cause no one cares…
Rto had no impact on bonuses…