I see that Alan wants all back to the office 5 days a week by December. No sympathy on what this is going cost employees on commuting, especially with the rise of petrol. Its not as if wages have increased to match inflation.
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Has HR announced the RTO plan yet? It’s only the Wednesday before…
Sooooo happy I got 'kicked to the curb'. I found another position in 7 working days and that interview started with them expressing concern and regret for how the notifications went down. They didn't know that my manager never acknowledged my departure. There is a lot more to look forward to outside of those pitifully poor processes at Avaya.
A winning Culture is created by respecting your employees and promoting a meritocracy based model of work/reward. A losing culture is created by disrespecting your employees and a dictatorial based model of “do what I say, not what I do” Funny how Alan was keen to use virtual meetings to lay people off but now wants people back in the office so he can boss them around more. The culture at Avaya was toxic under Jim but it ain’t t getting any better by the looks of the messaging! Feels more like a sinking ship that ever now !
Reading through the frequently asked questions linked in his email, it sounds like if you were originally "virtual office", you remain that way? Maybe coming in a couple of times a week will be reconsidered over 5x... hopefully.
The reason isn’t related to work production, it’s culture. Avaya culture sucks. Only way to change is in person so everyone’s gotta come back until that ship turns.
Really don't get this. They want people to take on more work and be flexible. Not a hope of me switching on my laptop or attending a late meeting after over a 60 minute commute home.
You have to pick up extra work from the people who got laid off, no annual raises, no profit sharing/401K match, and now you have to commute to work 5 times a day.
Avaya is truly a "destination place for work". What a joke!!
Do yourself a favor and find another job!
We kept this sh-t pile of a company afloat through the worst pandemic in living history and apparently no thanks or recognition only get back the office 5 days a week as we don't trust you anymore to work from hone... Alan go fcuk yourself as I will continue to work from home
Drop in cube space to get distracted with noise and side conversations with people I don’t currently support. 2-3 hrs/day of windshield time. Have to pay for parking. Think I’ll be putting in the same number of hrs I do (or have) over the past 16 yrs of VO? I think not.
I would prefer to commute 10 hours barefoot to the office every day over having to use Spaces for communicating with colleagues.
We have been working remote for the last 10+ years. It is shocking our sales and marketing is going to be promoting to customers the value of hybrid work and utilized work from home solutions like Spaces and ACO but we will not adopt it internally moving forward.
The only way this makes sense is if the CEO is trying to drive out people to leave on their own to avoid paying severance in the next layoff or from his Galway meeting when he took a look at all the technology, he realized Spaces is not a good enough solution to solve collaboration internally.
At least the last CEO was on interviews with CNBC and TD Ameritrade saying our hybrid work solutions are so good, we as a company use them internally and it makes us more effective and our customers should adopt these tools as well.
Is this guy trying to force people to leave by doing this now? I have just inherited extra work for no extra money, and now expected to commute 5 days a week, adding over 10 hours commute and additional fuel costs! What a joke!
This approach is indicative of a distrustful, controlling and ineffective work culture. Avaya should try drinking their own lemonade by adopting the workplace and collaboration benefits they're trying to sell to their customers via Avaya products.
Im not expecting much from the new guy. So far we've seen little to no strategy on how he plans to take the company forward.
Just the usual stuff that companies do when they're dying. Claim they're okay and push lies to the media, layoffs, micromanage employees, etc...
Insanity at its finest