It was never about collaboration or efficiency. It’s always been about pushing people out. The fewer employees who quit on their own, the more extreme the requirements become, deliberately designed to make compliance impossible, or too costly, inconvenient, or stressful for most. Never mind that RTO drives the most skilled workers away first. This bank doesn’t care about talent, only the bottom line.
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That's misleading because a company fully remote would be incredibly rare. A company with some fully remote roles where it makes sense, like U.S. Bank was pre-2000, is quite common. Such a company would be listed as "hybrid" which doesn't distinguish it from our system now which is based almost purely on geography and not if it makes sense.
To be useful the data needs to be broken up more.
@OP your premise that this is strictly a bank move to shed talent is naive.
Take a look at attendance policies of major U.S. companies. More Fortune 100 companies are now back FULL-TIME in office (54) than hybrid (41) or fully remote (1)... Consider sharing facts over fear.
@b0 u evr hear of Deez?
Wake up! You won’t beat RTO. They know if you badge in and go home, or stay only a few hours and leave or don’t comply at all. Go to work, in your hub or assigned office the required days and do what you have to in order to stay employed, nothing more nothing less. They continue to get away with this because we all continue to do more while getting nothing in return other than more work because they laid off our co-workers. They WANT us to quit, especially if you are a long term employee they consider expensive. Make them severance us! Don’t let them fire you! It won’t change for another 5-7 years so accept it, make the best of it or surrender and quit but remember that quitting means they win. I will be working to the level of my pay and appreciation that I currently receive as that is all this dumpster fire of a company deserves!
@a7 my thoughts exactly. About 5 of us out of the whole 20-25 ppl of my training class stuck it out and all could picture being at us bank long term when we got hired in 2022 things were much different from what they are now. I could write pages about the current situation at the company but to make my story short. I absolutely agree with you about what they’re doing, me and my training team talked about this back in February/March that it looked like it was headed in this direction. They’re pushing all the employees out so they quit intentionally. With this new compliance and stress like you said after the job market recovers if and when this is not gonna be good for the banks hiring. They already had a bad turn over rate when I started. Imagine putting you thru he-l for this job that treats you like you need to be a robot and be absolutely perfect, mental health absolutely a mess because of the crazy stuff we go thru with customers, and get cross trained in 5 different depts so we’re so overworked and all for it what? Then to add salt to the wound offer a 50 cent raise at the eoy reviews. The culture was so different atleast when I first came in I feel. There was more compassion even for a corporate setting now it’s just about numbers. Basically jump ship if and when you can in this horrible market🤷🏽♀️
@a2 Please work on improving your literacy. Areas to focus include, but are not limited to: basic sentence composition, grammar, and spelling. These are all very basic skills you need to be able to demonstrate if you hope to be employed in corporate America.
Rumor has it they are looking at using it to five days/week because of all the complaing and managers not enforcing the current RTO policies
It's such a foolish longterm move too. I can understand the need for layoffs. I can understand the need to cut costs. What's unforgivable is them treating all of us like we're id--ts and gaslighting everyone. They're burning a massive amount of goodwill, and it's not the kind of thing they can ever easily get back.
Once we're back into a hot job market, U.S. Bank is going to find themselves in even hotter water. Loads of effective employees who would have stayed out of loyalty or even just contentment will now no longer have any sense of helping out the company they used to love working for.
Thy dun lost and fired the peeps who knew what they were doing, ops, compliance, security ……….. ext partners and regs and customers are noticing …. You should b 2 if u r paying attn . Falling aprt