I’ve been remote my entire time at Wells Fargo but keep being told I’ll potentially be impacted by location strategy. I noticed in work day I have a tab under Flexible Work Arrangements that states Critical Skills. What does this mean?
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If you are pretty, or a good azz kisser.
This is correct. The end date wasn’t the end date of your job. Just the end date of the current approval of remote work. If you had stayed on, for it to be extended it would have required OC -1 approval.
It doesn’t mean anything. It’s just an excuse for remote work, which as I found out last year, can still be pulled any time.
I ended up voluntarily resigning because I was tired of waiting for Wells Fargo to decide my future by waiting for displacement, but my flexible work arrangement said Building Unavailable with a tentative end date of 12/31/25. I had been a full time remote employee for over 10 years not near a hub. My manager couldn't really tell me what it meant, but she did say that there was an option to extend remote status beyond any end date, but it would require higher level approvals.
"critical skills" is code for "to be downsized a little later". They'll still get you.
Can personally vouch that there are other codes for justifying remote status. Mine says nothing about critical skills.
Kind of amusing to see proposed end dates in that table. Is that a hint about when I'll get laid off? The timing I see in there would actually be perfect for me.
Nothing. I had that listed but was still impacted by location strategy. It’ll get ya eventually.
Honestly critical skills mean nothing. They can always hire somebody in India to do the same job.
That's what's keeping your remote status. They need to label it as critical skills or business critical for your remote exception. As you know, they can remove that at anytime to try and call you into the office.
Is there anything listed under Critical Skills?
IIf you have something listed then you might be indispensable.
Not a dam thing