Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Everyone in Aero know about the DC story but the CEO came in at Friday afternoon expecting everybody to be onsite. I think it was a calculated move to end wfh. This is apparent now that everybody is moving to wfh but Honeywell is still trying to get people to come to the office to attend their MS Team meetings.

I find it hard to believe that those who are WFH don’t have their own internet service and don’t have access to their own personal computers, tablets or phones to do personal business on while working from home.

Based on home office company computer usage monitoring and track and trace technology, there were many employees spending more time on non company business, shopping, personal business, vacations, kids school activities, social networks, Facebook, personal emails, friends/family activities, adult websites, etc. etc. etc. than actually doing company business.

This thread is great entertainment.
Google bean point anna maria island. You can see the lots he picked up in the first drone shot that comes up. Tip is the trees. Make up your own mind. Public record. Nothing but a mcmansion house for golf weekends i imagine. The golf is okay around there.

DC lives on an island of mis-fit toys.
Freaking clown

@1ylt, your post is no more accurate than the one you are complaining about. It is an island, even if it is connected to the mainland by a bridge. You are correct that DC did not really buy the island, but he bought one really nice piece of it, you can be sure of that.

• @1xou. The former CEO did not buy an "island". He bought some property on a peninsula called "Anna Maria Island", that is connected to the mainland by a bridge (look at a map). This peninsula contains hundreds of homes (yes, all mansions), however it's certainly not an "island" with a lagoon and coconut trees. I agree that he had an unwarranted fit when nobody was around on a Friday afternoon in the Sarasota office and rescinded the WFH policy, however please get your facts straight.

The office in question was a field office in Sarasota. Former CEO had bought an island near Tampa and was build a house on it—a mansion. He would take a company plane to go check on it but in order to do that he had to make sure using the jet had a Honeywell business purpose So he stopped in Sarasota and there was no one there.

I thought it was also a way to reduce heads. I know many Field Service Engineers, Supplier Development, Field Quality, IT, Customer Support, etc. folks who were told you drive to closest hub "x" days per week/month or you are gone. People not close to a hub couldn't do it and we RIF'd. Since then I am now working with temp workers who have been hired to replace those who were let go in some cases. Many supplier support folks work for temp agency now. So really the HON badge were replaced with non-Hon badge.

Yeah it was a Friday afternoon visit to some site. Site was a little empty around 3pm and CEO asked "where is everyone?" He didn't like the answer that people left early or were WFH. Threw a hissy fit, and rest is history.

@OP. You are clueless. The work from home policy changed overnight in a fit of anger by the former CEO. That weekend was a complete customer relations disaster with planes grounded because there was nobody to take the call. The CTO spend the next week back pedaling the disaster. Years later the work force still has not forgiven leadership even though the policy has been largely ignored since before COVID and all the leaders who created it are gone. The cost of that decision was probably $100M a year by the time even a president (aero defense and space) had to leave because there was no longer a site nearby. Tons of top talent left and it was the beginning of a regrettable attrition tsunami.. retraining, quality collapse, Angry customers....you do the math.

Current ceo would have changed the policy but it has some benefit toward HIS big goal of 50% footprint reduction. Notice that honeywell US census has dropped by more than fifty percent in the last fifteen years. When the polish guy says footprint reduction he means ... high cost US, Canadian, British, and French labor will be exchanged for Romanian, Vietnamese, and other low cost areas. China is off that list and India is not the cheapest game in town. Why pay $20/hr when you can pay $5 to someone else.

There are certain jobs that can be done effectively from a distance. Before COVID, I would knock myself out to get to the office before sunrise to meet with colleagues in Europe and Asia, then spend the afternoon interfacing with colleagues in the western hemisphere. There is no one in the local office that I need to interface with.

Now I can just roll out of bed and start being productive, and be in no hurry to leave to beat traffic as it nears quitting time. I am so much more productive WFH, and not in a constant state of fatigue as before. There should be a WFH option for jobs like this.

Sounds about right, ALT or DA do not have the mental capacity to think beyond cost savings

Yeah look at what they just acquired Rocky Research??? Who needs thermal management right now?! They should be partnering with Space companies for data, internet, satellites, or even space heat pumps. They are doing to none of that... bad positions in bad industries. In short time this company will be bankrupted

@kem+ The pencil cup has already been invented for the home office. Besides HON would manage to scr*w that up

If HON is really a futureshaper, it should embrace WFH and make products for the home office