Did anyone catch the article in the RTN home page about engineering being put in one building in Puerto Rico? I just want other peoples perspective on what they interpreted when they read it. Because to me it looks like they want the engineers from all sections of the company to be in one consolidated building in Puerto Rico. If that’s true, that can’t be a good sign.
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If you look at the job post for the last eight weeks there are more post with positions in Puerto Rico and I’m not just talking engineers there’s going to be a transitional move there it’s gonna be bigger than what anybody thinks what are you guys think about that???? And I get it it’s state citizenship required so it’s not like they’re outsourcing labor???
It was announced in the Q2 earnings update that either Pratt or Collins (I forget which) has already established an engineering office in PR, and the rest of the businesses are expected to develop a plan to send work packages there, to support the location with billable hours. Citizenship has its advantages.
I knew a girl who moved to Washington state and worked in El Segundo. This was prepandemic shutdown. Tradeoff was she had to pay her own way if they needed her in the office. Also dont be surprised if pay is reduced if working from home. Less travel/gas. Cost of living, etc.
Too many closed programs and labs to make any changes to the El Segundo South campus. I would expect the north campus buildings R01, R02, R07 and R09 would be moved to the south campus at some point but it could take years. Currently the company is looking at three work options, on-site, off-site and hybrid. If you work in a lab or are working closed programs you are pretty much stuck on site. I also doubt the company would like favorably on people working out of state. They would probably want you close enough to come in when needed. If you do have a clearance you can be asked, at any time, to support a closed program on site. It seems like most of us are talking about the California sites. I bet California would try to find someway to get income tax from you even if you were working out of state.
I tend to get the impression that work from home doesn’t necessarily mean home in the same location where you went to the physical plant you could work from home say from a completely different state with a lower cost of living still be employed at raytech still get your salary but being a place with a lower cost of living work from home doesn’t mean home needs to be in the same state as the plant that’s the benefit of it you could live anywhere: Even Puerto Rico
I heard about reducing the footprint. Since lots of salaried are working from home and given up their spaces, what are they going to do with the buildings especially E1 and E4 in El Segundo?
That’s why I wanted someone else to read the article. Get another viewpoint in the case that I likely misread the point. Thank you
That's a huge jump to make. I certainly didn't come to that conclusion. Puerto Rico is probably a very small site with very few employees. It would make sense to co-locate them. During the last quarterly report conference call it was mentioned that the company wanted to reduce their footprint by 25%. On the west coast we are going to be transitioning to a work from home model. Now that Tom Kennedy has retired the UTC takeover of Raytheon is nearly complete