If you are being made to RTO to an open office environment and would find that environment detrimental to your performance, please consider that you might have a sensory disorder or clinical neurodivergence and use your company health insurance to document it. Then tell HR of that fact and work from home and continue being productive.
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@4wq my manager and senior leader approved my remote designation and I never had to go through HR, that was over a year ago.
I submitted my formal diagnosis to HR and was given an “accommodation” to work on the far side of an open style work environment. My doctor relayed to them that the proposed solution was not a viable one and HR came back with a counter offer of providing me with noise canceling headphones. After providing more push back - they eventually caved and I’m now still required to be in office in a tiny little office in the corner (that’s all glass - so there are still considerable visible distractions and noise). Even with more than ONE medical condition WFH wasn’t approved after providing medical records and having my doctor complete all requested paperwork.
@y7 HR is there so you don't have to threaten your direct manager
Imagine being an adult and thinking HR is there for the employees.
When a senior level manager sends out a email celebrating someone that went to the office every day, you know they have absolutely nothing better to do.
What a performance driver, to have someone making well into 6 figures writing emails about attendance.
The biggest boost to performance would be firing her and letting the rest of us carry on.
Snowflake
OFFSHORE!
Ensure my pension keeps flowing
All the years of accumulated RSUs are not helping me - with the lousy price and dividend
@OP I have almost the same issue. However, HR denied my accomidation request to WFH even though I have 2 ADA covered disabilities. HR is not here to protect teammates - Trust me. Legal counsel may be my only recourse if I get another bad review where my disabilities are being held against me even after going to HR.
@p0 hahaha, you salty and just mad I will stay remote and you can’t, that’s ok, one day you will actually make AVP
“Remote work” in a India is far cheaper than keeping your entitled butt
Best of luck
@h7 your job is “client facing” therefore you need to be there to “face the client” others jobs are “computer facing” and they can “face the computer” from anywhere in the world. Don’t like it, then change to a non-client facing position.
@h7 No one needs or is even asking for your sympathy. We have different roles with different needs. There is no logical reason to be in the office 4 days a week for people who do their entire job from a computer. There is a logical need for client facing workers to be in person. It’s that simple.
To the RTO workers. We DO NOT feel sorry for you. Employees who are client facing definitely do not feel sorry for you.
@db will this be published somewhere?
Fulton
@d2 you need a lawyer tbh. Best of luck!
@d9 glad I got mine in writing
Just submit 20 minutes of sick time per day you don’t want to drive in, in workday.
The RTO reporting will count it as an office day. This code is to be released soon.
@cv even then it doesn't sound like being marked as a telecommuter will 100% save you. At least in ET, it appears subject to change at any moment unless it was part of your hiring package in the last few months.
This will not work. I have ADHD and brought a note in from the doctor. My manager and HR could care less.
Lol, They will just set you up in a small room by yourself. If your manager doesn't get you designated as a telecommuter they are he-l bent on getting you in the office.
@c9 Question, has performance at the company improved since RTO? Have our financials improved at all? This has never been about “doing your job” or “performance”. RTO is about power. That’s it.
You know what has gone up since RTO? Disengagement. And leadership knows this. It’s why they haven’t done the engagement survey in a long time. They need to live in their fake reality where RTO has only improved Truist when in reality it has done nothing but lower morale.
@a7 It would make a wonderful news article if Truist started letting people go for performance and then it came out that these people all just so happened to have medical accommodations. Wouldn’t it?
Or grow up, do your job or leave.
Very good!
Good advice!
Wow
@a7+1jyqhm4rc anyone terminated for a medical issue just won the lottery, thanks for inadvertently making a good point.
If you want to get terminated for another totally separate reason