Regardless of your opinion of return to the office or work from home, what does everyone anticipate management to say on the matter come 10/01?
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I hope they keep us home and keep us safe!
Here is what Oxy will do. Oxy is so good to its employees the company will probably give in to what you want. Then, you will continue to BAD MOUTH your own company that has been extremely good to its employees. It is not Oxy that may be the problem, look internally into your own self.
Go ahead say it: VH has destroyed us, she is evil, blah blah blah, ...
but I don't recall any of this while I was employed there, and I am a minority without all the white privilege you all talk about is going on". I
Why can’t you use the same rule for working from the office. You know the rule that if you can’t do the job you are let go. Seems like the oil business non-field environment fosters people who don’t work efficiently, are incompetent, spoiled, and lazy. There are more than enough of these people left for at least two more rounds of brutal layoffs. The VSP is not right here because It is showing too much respect.
I think this is a good time to restructure how we do work. The current reporting structure might not work well for WFH. We could restructure with less people and less real estate. You would need a good HR rep working with the Manager and basically manage the people in conjunction with the Manager. The HR rep could be in charge of WFH office setup, and making sure people are actually conforming to WFH guidelines that can be created. So all the "people logistics" stuff would fall under HR doing, and working with the Manager. The Manager would take on more and cut out lower level managers by putting them in as technical leads, and those leads would be the first line support for the team employees, but also be a working lead that continues to do work. Workers should expect to be checked up on here and there because not all people have the same work ethic. Those that don't workout should be let go, and find the right person for the WFH job. All employees need to have a mic and video for meeting and face to face time with no exceptions. The HR rep should work with IT to supply the appropriate hardware for WFH, or the employee can provide their own with some sort of credit from the company. There are so many ways to make this work, but the basic key is to have employees actually do their work, and set it up to where there are core hours for everyone to be available like 9:30 to 3:30. After that leave it up to the employee to get their hours in to complete a full day. HR will also need to come up with metrics for measuring a person's effectiveness to work from home. Since these are WFH if an employee can't cut it then they would be let go and replaced.
Whats so special about 01 October?
It is not a live virus vaccine so you should have nothing to worry about. By the time the trials are done the side effects, if any, will have been identified. In the first trials adults will be tested and in subsequent trials children will be tested. If you don’t get vaccinated you will be hiding in your house if you want no risk.
I do not understand the position that a vaccine will solve anything. A COVID vaccine is not equal in safety to a childhood disease or even seasonal flu vaccine. My kids are fully vaccinated and we all get annual flu shots. But no way in hell we are getting a COVID vaccine that has been rushed to market and hasn’t been proven over several years. I’m not a crazy anti-vaxxer. I’m a reasonable human and parent.
Any other guesses?
Only an id–t believes that vaccines that have been vetted by science are not safe for the public. The anti-vaccination people who do not vaccinate their kids should be locked up. They are putting innocent children and society at risk.
This is a very serious Public health matter that some of the diseases that were eradicated are coming back.
@bet+16YKcK65 - You clearly lack basically literacy Sling Blade.
The seasonal flu is a running target each year for treatment a covid vaccine is not. We in the past have never had people enmas work from home because of seasonal flu. Peaole just take personal sick leave.
Flu season will completely nullify all scheduling and WFH will resume. It’s not in reference to severity of the flu, it’s the psychological effect, especially those with children. This is what happens when our president creates a disinformation society, not only is there no sense of trust in government but there’s a lack of trust in whether vaccines are safe for the public.
I agree, but I think managers will have some discretion. Hopefully they will let us know about vacation carryover soon. I will take vacation before going back if possible.
Phased approach starting mid October with reasonable medical exemptions granted after review by occupational health consulting company.