So far, the only difference RTO has made in my life is more hours wasted commuting and higher expenses. I still haven’t met a single person I actually work with. Doubt I ever will. Any time I “gain” by not working late nights, I now spend stuck in traffic. I’d have more respect if they just admitted the real reasons. Because let’s be clear - this isn’t about collaboration and efficiency.
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@223 monitoring us like lab rats. It’s disgusting. Filthy ba----ds.
This is probably why they are pivoting to 3x a week and not 11 days a month or 144 days a year. Plus if you miss RTO days, whether on PTO or SSL, it definitely does drop your percentage score for the month on WD
RTO is ok but I just don't like the lies about it. Worked remotely way before covid, and then to get told "pandemic is over go back to ur desk." Uhh what desk? But now I do get to see people..the the same people trying to run you off the road bc they're PO'd about even more pointless traffic and the smog covering the skyline again
@b6 stfu you troll. M-F is antiquated and will not draw any talent. USB is setting themselves up for a cr-p talent pool. Being inflexible with working schedules is how you lose really good people. Once the job market starts to su-k less they're going to be in for a really rude awakening when all the talent walks for better work structure.
You do not need to make up vacation, holidays, sick time, volunteer days…
This has been brought up and discussed multiple times during multiple calls for the past two years.
You are expected to be in office 144 days.
From that amount you subtract your vacation time, holidays, volunteer days, sick time, and so forth to come up with your final number.
If your manager is debating this, or forcing an adjusted schedule to make up for vacation, sick days…
You need to reach out to HR.
I personally went through this a year ago, and HR actually was on my side.
I was on pto for a few weeks and refused to "make up" the rest. It was escalated many levels above me. GL to the rest of you joining those of us who've been living the BS for a bit
They say they account for sick day, vacation, jury duty etc, but that’s not true.
If you’re not at 11 days, you’re not in compliance, even when you have 2 holidays in November and January.
They just see how many days you’re in.
Then your manager decides if they want to say you weren’t at 100 percent.
So in January, I went in 10 days because of Holidays, my manager had a talk with me about not being in 11 days…so Holidays….wtf
They keep lying to us
We’re never going to get one. There’s no metrics around the benefits of the policy, only compliance to it. They can’t even take the effort to factor in sick time, vacations, and holidays into their dashboard and rely on a lazy average that is only explained in manager documentation.
The benefits to the company are decreased footprint, likely tax breaks, and ways to get rid of people without paying a severance.
Same. I haven't met anyone at all. The only difference it makes is I just lose 2 hours a day of peak productivity time due to the commute/setting up/etc. I had insane productivity this time last year and now I just don't. I basically get 2 days a week to try to accomplish 3-4 days of work since the office days end up being more like half days at best as far as productivity. I've stopped stessing about it. I'm trying my best but it's their choice if they want to handicap me while paying me good money for the privilege.
Also, after all this time how they count the days ago entirely unclear to me. Opaque at best. People say 11 per month but that doesn't take into account vacation days or holidays or sick days etc. As long as I work from home only 2 days a week am I compliant even if some of the other days were vacations/holiday/sick/jury/whatever?