So despite being told otherwise in the interview process..I never got to work remote. Not that what I'm about to say matters to me, because I'm obviously not intellectually capable enough to have a remote day like most of the other employees in my department.
I heard from an employee on another team that they had their remote days taken away because there isn't enough work... I try to think about things 100% objectively because, frankly, personal biases and subjective decision making is toxic (which is what AIG management basically lives off of).
Why take remote days away from employees due to a lack of work? They're going to have a lack of work whether they're in office or not? Seems like a decision that a bunch of immature children on the playground would come up with. "If everyone can't play then nobody can"..deflates the kickball with a pin
Opinions? Is there actually a logical, quantitative reason for seemingly baseless actions like this? Does people sitting at their desks create an illusion that everyone is "busy"?
Seems like very petty decision making by people who probably don't deserve to be in the positions they are in..
Even if there isn't any real work going around, there should be opportunities where employees can be productive - regardless of whether or not the opportunity is on some obsolete scorecard. Redesign some workflows for small teams? Start doing some pair work so people can watch those that DO have work and can learn some things instead of sitting in the cube (staring at the cubicle wall)? Encourage employees to take some MS Excel courses at their desks?
Telling employees that they aren't allowed to learn new things or even work on side projects during their [copious amounts of] freetime is destructive, toxic and objectively disengages employees. Telling employees that it's "their job to sit at their desk" is, in my annoyed opinion, an insecure and unintelligent thing to say. I've worked with smarter and more creative people in entry level retail positions then the people in this company. It's embarrassing!
There are people here who don't even know how to create or understand why .docx documents are inferior to .pdfs .....yet the people this company promotes are those who say , "it's your job to sit at your desk."
Am I in the wrong here, or what??