So I’m newly moved to a hub and have now spent a little over a year and a half going into the office one week a month. To me it’s terrible. Desks rarely operate at 100% (monitors, keyboards gone, CPU missing) and it is incredibly frustrating after having spent let’s say an extra hour of my day already just getting to the office. There isn’t any camaraderie or extra benefit from seeing other people sit at their desks. Team meetings don’t add value. So I’m wondering how long they try to force a round peg into a square hole. To me I feel like they will at some point give it up. I know SMs are being asked to come in 2 weeks now. Thoughts?
24 replies (most recent on top)
The 21st floor (top floor) in Dallas is currently being built out. Very interesting
Yup! I've been in a hotel room with a VP who sat on his cell phone doing SF business while drinking whisk-y. Saw so many things I could say about the incompetence of leadership along with the abuse of their title and earnings. Many should step down or get out.
Look what Musk did to Twitter. Look what he is doing to Goverment! Our customers deserve reduced premium dollars. WFH is over. 6 digit mgmt days are over. Management needs to be put in CS roles in office. The days of acting like you're important are over. Make em produce or get the H E L L out from executive on down!
It sure would be nice if they eliminated WFH. It would help the real estate market, lower traffic is most areas, get rid of overpaid employees, and provide better service to the policyholder. Get em into the hubs ASAP.
Yup. Get rid of fraud, waste, and abuse. 25 million bonus, WFH, and so on. Ask the customer/policyholder. We're tired of paying for laziness.
Yup....glad to see em bring em back in the office. SF, like the government, needs a wake up call. I'm tired of seeing SF employees in mgmt and claim reps wasting time in town. Move em all into the hubs and teach them how to communicate with the teams. Hire more for less controlling the overpaid costs. Dallas, Phoenix, Atlanta or Bloomington or terminate.
WFH will slowly go away. They are already pulling more virtual teams into the office from estimatics when the original incentive for that work was to be 100% virtual. Talk about skreweeng over the volunteers to work those garbage tasks. Any employees that quit over going into off is part of the downsizing plan, Mark my words, by the end of 25 will see in office growing if no 2020 style events happen.
Go back to the office, we need to handle times down lol
Have everyone starring into a computer screen causing more depression, anxiety, and mental illness cutting them off from society while they pump anti depressant meds into themselves taking them father away from inability to work and communicate with others. Sounds like a sad life I wouldn't want. Do like others ha e done before you. Get up, exercise, shower and put on clean clothes to go to work and interact with society. Live a healthy life not a sad mentally ill depressing life. The people before you did it. Don't be lazy and incompetent.
I doubt fully remote.
Nobody has addressed OP regarding hybrid and in office time. I get it we used to be better, I get it some think get back to office full time. Fu-k off with the politics bullsh-t. Question is do we think this time next year or in the near future State Farm will give up on the idea of Hybrid and let folks work wherever!? One post did make some sense in that if we want to reduce numbers/salary there are a lot of expensive fully remote folks out there. If we went fully remote that option may not be there….
@f1+1-wow how did you come up with something so witty and original? I. An see why you are so successful Brahahaha
Use Common Sense!! SF needs to go back to the old days of hiring competent people.
@ey+1 have you thought about renting the space out in your head instead of letting Trump live in it rent free?
Trumps press conference today demonstrated he is totally unfit to lead the USA.
Yesterday's investigation result isn't complete and they are blaming Trump. LMAO
@da+1-yes, yesterday’s air crash demonstrated trumps poor decisions.
State Farm, like our government, used to hire the best and the brightest. That's long gone. It's now a mediocre company at best.
State Farm can do anything to make room for those who WFH. Don't fool yourself because I'm sure they have done a detailed analysis. If it is a cost benefit, you can bet your a$$ it will be implemented. Funny they are doing it in government to reduce costs. The WFH claims people and claims mgmt are generally high cost employees. Perfect and ripe to reduce costs especially 6 digit mgmt. Don't ever think SF WOULDN'T DO THAT! Heard that many times and it was exactly what they do. They have been and will continue their BUSINESS DECISION attitude.
@bg+1jjt5ba6y
as it is people don't fit in to the hubs, there is no room already going 1 week a month because they subleased the rest of the buildings, tell me where are people going to sit a full month of multiple teams overlap? its not feasible any way you look at it, now if they let go of the sub leases and suddenly had lots of empty space i would see it as possible but not right now, claims are packed like sardines.
@az+1. Bingo! That's the reason why I tell these down vote minions to get ready to go back to the office is because that is exactly what they are going to do. They think they are not replaceable. They better wake up. They move people to get rid of people. It's a fact. They better wake up. They don't care about you. You're a fool if you think they do.
It's just to make people leave and the first of many tactics they are going to use to try to get people to leave and get turnover as high as possible! They want to ream you out for 2-3 years and pray you leave so compensation never reaches any of its potential. A claim reps salary can easily exceed 100K if you stay around! Burn you out, make you leave! Repeat! It is the business model! Never fool yourself! You are cannon fodder!
Putting everyone back in the office will better enable accountability and remove petulant behaviors. Making 60+ thousand yearly, like the government, should encompass responsibilities. If they can't come into an office, they are not responsible enough to keep the job.
I'd like to see everyone brought back into the office. It should go back to a learning environment. It will be better for the company to see how future leadership interacts with their peers. That is a rare virtue nowadays. The team environment is valuable. To me, bring em all back in.