Apple is abandoning their plans to have workers in the office 3 days a week, Monday Tuesday and Thursdays.
They say it's due to covid, but they are still requiring 1-2 days a week minimum, so thats a lie. I have heard that its due to staff retention issues and employee morale.
How long until ENB cracks and ditches their nonsense 'hybrid' arrangement?
I'm 39 with no skin the the game but heard over the 2.5 years some of the worst people IT and support staff had to deal with were the spoiled young engineers. Privileged kids who have rarely heard the word "No" in their lives. Goes both ways.
The last EVP that retried was making $6MM/yr, didn’t he work until 70+? Making 7 figures for probably the last 10+ years. Yeah boomers don’t manage $$$ very well.
Was your bonus in the 7 figures last year? No? I wonder why?
I'm supposed to be in 3 days a week. I'll go in... maybe 1-2 on average, just when my manager is around.
At home I put in maaaaaybe 2 hours of work a day. All of my work is completed, and not a drop more of effort. No one cares. No one notices. Most of my colleagues do less. I love it. No one should work any harder than it takes to not get fired. You owe these capitalist leeches nothing.
The comment about boomers makes the assumption that these guys have been smart with their money. I still work with a ton of 60 year old people.
On the topic of boomers, one of my buddies works in IT and at the height of the pandemic started to day drink after having to deal with the clueless baby boomers. Some guy apparently wanted my friend to drive downtown and pick up a second monitor and hand deliver it to his house and then threatened to have him fired when that request was rejected.
Boomers are the biggest snowflakes and entitled whiners around. We need them to retire permanently to bring change to politics, culture ,etc....
Gas prices high and school is on summer break. WFH saves me and my wife daycare costs too.
Google has gone with the same 3-day a week in the office model for most of their employees. They have made exceptions for those that have exceptional talent that they want to retain at all costs.
At Enbridge, the 3 day a week rule applies to everyone however the enforcement of the rule is limited only to those who are deemed expendable. The people Enbridge wants to retain do not have this rule enforced on them while the others do.
I am one of those employees that still works from home as much as required and you obviously are not.
If you want to be an exceptional employee, my advice to you would be to stop your cry baby whining, lose your sense of entitlement and prove yourself.
"The only people I know who are against WFH are the types who can't grift, manipulate, schmooze, and bully over a webcam"
Are you suggesting that manipulating and bullying from home is OK?
"Boomers are scared that with WFH their inability to use tech to network and communicate with colleagues will set them back."
Sounds like someone who's mindset is to put people in predetermined buckets based on age. Likely a racist too. Besides, the "boomer generation" have almost completely left the workplace and retired. You need to be born between 1945 and 1965 to be a "boomer baby". So the youngest boomers out there right now are pushing 60 and the oldest are around 80. In the business unit I work in there are not many of them at all and I am pretty sure there are zero boomers in management.
Come on man, expensive fuel benefits us worker bees! Trickle down economics!
The only people I know who are against WFH are the types who can't grift, manipulate, schmooze, and bully over a webcam. They need to justify their own existence by being "present" in the office every day. We all know these knuckleheads. 2-3 hours spent BSing, taking over meetings believing they are the smartest one in the room. I love WFH as I don't have to interact with these fools and have my time wasted.
Boomers are scared that with WFH their inability to use tech to network and communicate with colleagues will set them back.
They're worried that without the micromanagement of in office work, someone will realize their mid level manager role is completely redundant.
Sure you may not need top talent. But without WFH in these knowledge jobs, its not even mediocre talent that will consider working for ENB. You might get new grads and desperate people. Both of which will jump ship after a year or two.
Accidents will increase. Safety will drop. I guess that death for a company like this has been written on the wall for a long time now.
What about companies in the same sector? You are comparing Enbridge to Apple.
Apple is in a very competitive industry that requires them to hire and retain the top talent.
A company like Enbridge that is first of all in a declining industry and secondly much less competitive industry does not really need the top talent in every area of their business. They can do just fine with mediocre human assets, especially in business units like Utility Gas Distribution where they are essentially a regulated natural monopoly.
When the company feels it's time to let some people go they will start by bringing people back 5 days a week to get some people to quit, then look at what's left over and get rid of groups they have determined are no longer of value.
Ancient controlling leaders at the top. Looking for fully remote role activitiely!
You go in 3 days? No way. I go in maybe 2 times a week. Gas is way to expensive for that right now