No, the reason is not that employees working from home are slacking off and not doing their jobs, in fact, I have worked more than ever.
The reason I don't want to go back to the office and why I will give notice is that I have finally got rid of the toxic office atmosphere and I don't want to go back to that atmosphere again.
There are many more reasons, but this one is the biggest.
CEO and others said our work schedule prior to pandemic wouldn’t change. Big lie! Worked from home went in 1 day a week (2 x per month) due t my job. Now they say 3 Days a week because more people have flexibility. My manager is telling us what days we all need to be in. Clearly the days that work best for them. Such a joke. So many companies are hiring 100% remote.. seriously weighing my options. This company no longer is the company it was when I started. I do miss the old leadership.
This article is good, too, "Anthony Klotz The Covid vaccine means a return to work. And a wave of resignations.
For everyone exiting the pandemic feeling burned out, know you are not alone."
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/covid-vaccine-means-return-work-wave-resignations-ncna1269018
Apparently 95% of people are considering looking for a different job. Wow.
"‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect" view here
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/more-people-plan-to-quit-as-return-to-work-plans-go-into-effect-.html
lol don't need those development conversations if they're virtual...what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpgRyCoFk10
They are now offering free lunch at any location with a cafeteria from 9-7-21 through 12-31-2021.
Remember, there is NO "free lunch"
I wonder if anyone in senior leadership has read MetLife's own study on flex work. From the 2021 employee benefits trend study:
Though half of employees surveyed report being happier with their current working situation compared
to before the pandemic, workers point to other shortcomings in leaders’ efforts to be flexible:
28% of employees feel their employer is offering greater flexibility in work hours and
arrangements, compared to 81% of employers
68% of employees who can work remotely say their employer should allow them to make the right choice for themselves and their family.
1/2 of workers in their 20s (51%), including Gen Z and
young Millennials, say their work-life balance is
better now than before the pandemic, while only
one-quarter of Baby Boomers say the same.
55% of workers in their 20s, including Gen Z and young Millennials, are happier with their working situation now than before the pandemic
You can read the whole study here: https://www.metlife.com/content/dam/metlifecom/us/noindex/pdf/ebts-2021/MetLife_EBTS_2021.pdf
Regarding the comment about the SLT and real estate investments.
https://rew-online.com/sentinel-acquires-florida-office-building-for-43m/
Tampa office was sold and is under lease to MetLife through October 2031.
They are going to be pushing like he-l to occupy that building with that 10 year expense now. To he-l with logic.
I wasn't making an argument one way or the other. I was simply correcting an assumption that vaccine = immunity.
Pfizer - 95% Effacacy
Moderna - 94.1% Effacacy
J&J - 72% Effacacy
It is still possible to get COVID even if you are fully vaccinated. Full stop. You may be asymptomatic or avoid hospitalization/death.
Regardless, this rollout by senior leadership has been terrible. Putting COVID aside, I agree with a poster below. I have no directs in my office, nobody I work with on other teams and my management is disbursed. There is no collaboration happening and me being in an office 3 days of the week is 100% about control.
@breakthrough cases.
Then all employees should be tested.
Vaccine protects against “most” variants.
Google "breakthrough COVID cases." No COVID vaccine has 100% efficacy. Vaccine does not = immunity.
Question. Can someone explain the logic of separating employees that are vaccinated from those that are unvaccinated?
It’s counter intuitive. A vaccinated employee can’t catch Covid from an unvaccinated employee, correct? Vaccine = immunity.
It would be very helpful if relevant details specific to employees Future Work categories be communicated in written form and not by a virtual SLT meeting.
Not knowing is causing undo stress. Anyone know the answers to these questions because managers are prohibited from talking to employees until they are told they can.
@unvaccinated interesting point on liability I hadn't considered. Makes you wonder if the lawyers hadn't thought of it either or did they calculate the risk was low cost enough to go for it anyway.
@unvaccinated... love your comment, but there is one flaw.... mother Met bases everything on their set of facts from gawd knows where (probably flip floppin' Fauci, and the ridiculous blatherings of the CDC) they wouldn't give the truth you provided, the time of day because your facts don't make them money. Silly you! LOL!
I'm sure half of the bull sh-t the SLT is trying to sell us really just has to do with real estate positions they are in.
Signing a waiver to release a company from liability-that will take the cake.
An unvaccinated employee working from home can control their risk of contacting Covid from other unvaccinated individuals or those with break through cases. The company by requiring unvaccinated employees to return to the physical office is increasing that employees risk exponentially. Commuting on public transportation, requiring the employee sit in a designated unvaccinated section with other unvaccinated employees that have commuted, etc.
The company is increasing unvaccinated employees exposure to the risk of contracting the virus. When the company can allow the employee to continue working from home.
The vaccination is EUA, emergency use approved. Not fully vetted for safety by the FDA. All possible short and long term side affects have not been identified or evaluated. This designation allows people to opt out, if they choose. Has the company even mentioned or educated it’s employees to this fact? You know the other point of view, diversity of opinions and thought, are all welcome. Nope.
Is it necessary for an unvaccinated employee who has been working from home successfully for over a year, and can control his/her environment, travel, etc., and now is being required by the company to return to the office, thus increasing that employees risk of contracting the virus, all in the name of collaboration and company culture is this what they mean be fulfilling their Purpose and Winning the Future?
If an unvaccinated employee upon returning to the office catches Covid within 18 months of said return to office, after 18 months of successfully not catching it by working from home, who’s at fault?
And if the employee dies from catching Covid after returning to the office, who’s liable?
Just thinking…out loud.
My manager does not work in my office, nobody on my team works in my office, and none of my partners work in my office. Somehow it will be more "collaborative" for me to take calls from the office than from home? How fu----g stupid are these people making the decisions.
All professional articles about companies preparing RTO indicate that companies should get employees input. That companies who dictate the plan have alienated most all employees. Hmm. 10 months of research and they did not know this? But a survey about vaccination status?
The entire way in which they are dictating and delivering the plan in stages is causing a lot of anxiety. All of the specifics should have been given at once. They screwed this grand “collaboration” “experiment” up with real “purpose” and have just “won the future”.
WFH - I start earlier, I take fewer breaks, I work later, I produce better results.
Hmmm - yeah she needs to be monitored - Back to office!!
I don't regret returning to the office. I regret working for a company that treats me like child, lies to our faces, and pretends like work from home doesn't have huge benefits and no impact to most people's work. In fact they got way more work out of me over the pandemic.
@just told, which employee feedback? i personally have not seen any avenue by which employees could provide feedback except for the q&a from yesterdays meeting? who advised that the EG may be taking another look?
we were just told that the EG may be walking back some of the RTO plans due to the employee feedback.
it's crazy how if they had asked employees in the first place instead of just using roles they might have known this.
If one of your main selling points for 80% (or whatever it worked out to) of the office coming back into the office is "oversight", that sounds like a management problem. But hey, 44% more flexibility right???
Not that employees with kids should take precedence in anyway, but with so much up in the air about covid rules for school, the hybrid schedule is more of a hindrance than a help. After a VERY difficult year, things just starting to look up, and mother Met clamps her teeth down on everyones throat. This flex work to future work flip flop sounds like a mess, with control as it's main goal. Buh bye work/life balance, hello more stress and anxiety.
People’s lives should not be measure by mathematical metrics. Compassion and empathy my a$$.
Is this RTO model identical to other major insurance companies? Proof of vaccination, testing? Which benchmarks exactly did they use? Clearly not Facebooks. This is intrusive and unnecessary. I am so disappointed on so many levels. Sad.
@eeo+1bvTNOsH it took 10 months because they had to spend 1 month trying to figure out what consultants to hire for the 6 month engagement on understanding this topic. Took another 3 months for their pea brains to understand the outcome of the consultants reports.
I wonder if in the 10 months they spent coming up with this, did they talk to a single associate? And why did it take 10 months to come to with something that could have been pulled together in a week?
All that fake smiling and head bobbing, looks like every leader has personal experience "servicing" their way to the top.
We all know their brains didn't get them there.
Hard to swallow reality for them to hear, but looks like they probably have enough practice swallowing by now.
Don't worry Susan, i'm planning on taking a permanent vacation away from this place.
These people are a joke. Out of touch and convinced of their own brilliance.
44% flexibility, but 100% more flexibility if you didn't have any work from home arrangement before. WOW! They think we are all as d-mb as they are.
44% more flexibility!
These jokers make a lot of money for people who can't take their phone off mute.
Future Work call - Bobble head Pappas over here while Ly--h is talking about this nonsense, dude cant stop shaking his head yes. Poznanski half asleep or too busy looking down to check her texts. Stephen biggest sh-t eating fake smile I've ever seen.
Survey would result into facts. Facts that would not support leadership’s end game.
No thanks - I’ll stay home, be more productive and live a more balanced life. The fact of the matter is …I am not in a role that would require me to report to an office every day. I do not physically interface with customers which in my opinion is most important reason to be in an office.
The fact of the matter is that there was a missed opportunity here for leadership to … what was that again… “reimagine the workplace” by defining “Flex Work”.
Instead I see a complete waste…. Leadership trying to make a case where the the only thing re-imagined are facts.
Keep on throwing sh*t at the wall to see what sticks… because yeah that is an effective strategy. It certainly showcases the level of talent…
Idea #1: Why not pitch the challenge to “re-imagine the workplace” over the fence for the employees to “experiment” with and solve.
Idea #2: Simply open the doors and see what happens on the “Next Horizon”. While some might want to return to the office to gather and collaborate others may not or only choose to as needed. Management can monitor and control as needed following.
Should not require a big plan.
We know how to return to the office…don’t we? Or will this be another simulation involving astronauts or cowboys riding subways??
Leadership need to put their greed and huge egos aside, create an “inclusive” envious by giving adult professionals a choice.
I agree a survey is the quickest way if leadership were truly interested in facts and building an “inclusive” culture.
I also agree that the office environment is toxic. some both mentally and physically.
I don’t miss the circus clowns at the office. although the show can be entertaining at times. Do you notice that the most toxic are in many cases the ones pushing returns the hardest? as if they are losing sanity because they can’t BS and torture associates by degrading them to others all while within earshot…
All of the quotes in this rant represent the alphabet soup we have been force fed. Yummy - so meaty…
They get more work out of me, I save money on gas and car expenses, the environment gets a reprieve from all of us driving, but MetLife and their brilliance doesn't see those benefits.
Id--ts
Agreed. I sit next to one of the most toxic coworkers.
Does anyone resent that they are treating employees like children by not informing individuals RTO plan, until they have carried out their orchestrated drip drip dog and pony show of their researched validation of why employees need to be in the office? Tomorrow’s big reveal isn’t going to tell employees anything.
Why didn’t employees get asked to take a survey around RTO? Surveys are the company life line to understanding what the company needs to do, right? We weren’t consulted. Why?
Well said—-
I am more focused at home and have few distractions-plus I am home 2 minutes after logging off!!