So now they are walking this back?
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Tomorrow we will not know individuals return to office schedules. Waste of time.
That NY Post article, "Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society" was spot on.
I know a guy that was an executive at another company. I asked him, do the exec's really believe the stuff that they spout. He laughed, and said, you should hear them behind closed doors, it's nothing like the public image.
interesting article in the NY Post
entitled "Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society"
looks like they scrubbed the post article-- which was awesome btw
also posting the link did not violate any rules on this forum.. so..
I like that they thinking rebranding this as Future Work will make us forget about all the flexibility talk six months ago. Maybe the strategy here is if they inspire enough people to quit, then they will lower headcount enough to avoid layoffs. Too bad SLT will never see the consequences of their choices. Having a golden parachute must be nice.
@ WeepyCEO Your body your choice?
Survey says......
I thought a 1 was too harsh so I used 2 a lot....as for comments? I left a few — but no one cares...
Out of touch executives who miss schmoozing with each other as well as their office gym, ping-pong and Foosball tables want everyone to RTO. Meanwhile, I manage a team of 10+ who do not even live in the same state as me. Yes, staring at the same damn computer screen in an office instead of my home office makes such a huge impact on information exchange. What a bunch of fools. So much for retaining talent. People will be leaving in droves.
it's sounding large groups of customer-facing people will be required to be in-person at least 3 days a week now, regardless of if they did WFH before. Sounds like Met is really starting to fu-k up this RTW plan.
@5csn+1boKfUoY - Someone with a burner LinkedIn account should go to the Metlife linkedin page and post this link: https://www.thelayoff.com/metlife a few times every day
I wish there was a way to share this website with MetLife employees. I bet that only like half a percent of the total population even knows the site exists.
Hahahahaha!!!! Just watched the replay.... really, politics has no place in business, leadership has no political preferences? Several of the LTL's alone are rife with political leanings. We got some delusional people in some pretty high places. And what is all this return to office stuff, meetings, sessions, plans, schedules, explaining who is doing what, where, and with whom, this is not rocket science, and should not require all this planning and discussion. The flex work lie, is just that, a lie. There was never an intention to allow flexibility, only to exercise more control.
So leadership promised to post any point of view submitted by individuals who do not want the vaccine.... again omitting those who can't.... but what stuck out was the comment that it be based in fact. Has anyone read the stories submitted by those who did opt to receive it? Not alot of fact based anything in those stories, just alot of emotional, feel good blah, blah, blah.
@communist company - you are not alone. They have no idea how they have alienated the majority of employees. Tone def. The blow back has started and the renamed Flex Work to Future work will be the icing on the cake. All the smart talent is gearing up to bolt once they roll out their RTO mandate. Did SLT ask managers to get directs feedback before finalizing the master plan? Nope. Because your real needs and opinions don’t matter. They only matter when it suits them. They have miscalculated. It is a communist company engaging in propaganda and brainwashing.
SLT seems pretty proud of themselves with the new hybrid flexible work schedule-that is really not flexible. “3 days in office minimum per week” for GTO in Cary. Also heard we have more people than seats.
Layoffs? Desk sharing? Who knows but whatever they decide maybe we will get to the CEO get all pi$$y again during the next LTL. As for vaccines - my body my choice.
I’m reading all these replies and I feel a little better. Sometimes me and a few of my coworkers feel like we are on another planet with the woke stuff being sent out to us by the SLT, HR etc.
This week may have topped it with the brainwashing propaganda of the return to office. We now have a 3 day - set by leaders - in office schedule in GTO. No exceptions. 10 float days a year to work outside your home office? They call this flexibility?? For most, I will put up with some cr-p for flexibility in my schedule. I won’t even get into the 2 hour training I need to attend next week so I can push down the propaganda to my people. I feel like I am in a communist country/company with NO VOICE!!!
I predict that the survey participation rates are going to be high enough that they would normally crow about them.
But the survey results is going to be bad enough that their is going to be a long delay in publicizing the results and then it will be very quietly done.
Genius timing on the survey. I know I raked them.
If employees stood together like they did at Facebook and other companies and said they do not want this type of return, then the company would have to take their voice into consideration.
Layoffs last week, LTL this week and a myvoice survey being started this week as well. I wonder what those responses are gonna look like?
In the 40 years this planet I never expected an executive leader to speak to me and my colleagues in such a disrespectful, dismissive way...smh... disgraceful.
Word of the day - COERCION!
Why should we be surprised. This company has never been forward thinking, or in keeping with the times. No one below a particular level has ever been empowered, and there is no transparency. In order to be inclusive you have to be willing to respect both sides, not pick a side. Leadership being silent toward opposing views is about as divisive as it gets. Addressing the exclusive behaviors will never happen, therefore they will never be diverse and inclusive. It's a shame.
Are they paying for the new floating cultural holiday out of 1.8% raises?
Keep the holiday; I'll take cash.
The "security" reason for bringing people back to the office was nonsense.
Unless they plan to remove the VPN, you can do nearly anything remotely that you can do in an office. And, if you are supporting a hybrid model, then you need a VPN.
I don't see how RTO is more secure unless 100% do it, and they cut off the VPN entirely. So, no "after hours" work. No remote workers. No hybrid. Not gonna happen.
That was some pretty heavy hitting to tell us why they need us back to the office.
I think:
- Control issues. They want us back to have someone to boss around.
- Talking their book. MetLife has commercial real estate investments. If working from home continue to be a thing, commercial real estate could crater.
- Attrition. They might actually want to encourage attrition, which they are likely to have.
I do agree that there is something to be said for unplanned conversations that happen in an office and whatever "creativity" comes from that. But those three seem like the real reason.
On the vaccine question - yeah, he was prickly on that. Maybe coercion was a tiny bit overstated, but the company is clearly not impartial on the issue. And, assuming the vaccine works and has no side effects, yeah, it's an easy call. It seems to work, at least on the variants that are out so far. But, I think there are always going to be some unintended side effects that cause injury or death. I think you have to be honest and say that, maybe, "we think the vaccine works, but there could be side effects". Heck, the medical community thought Thalidomide was great for morning sickness. Bad things can happen.
I wish people actually spoke their minds on the companies forum. Then they would know how their employees truly felt.
Very disappointing that the company is so short sighted. All the talk about agility, flexibility, trying new things, is just that, TALK. This old model is dead or dying and companies that do not embrace the new model will lose their talent pool.
CEO pretty PO'd about the vaccine question. Didn't seem very professional or inclusive. Jerk.
LOL! What a joke. Bill trying to sell us on how innovative and helpful they are because they are letting us have closed caption on WebEx. Raises no higher than 1.5% so they can continue to roll out these innovative features.