With RTO there was a promise to upgrade the facilities. Have you seen it? Because I haven’t. Gone are the FMS that used to be able to fight to get improvements to our facility, even if we’re not looking at the hubs, the rest of the portfolio is an absolute disarray. Where is the promise and commitment to upgrade these sites? Who wants to come work at a place for the carpeting is 20 years old and management won’t fight to replace it?
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Our office has more desks than people, so fighting for a spot is not an issue - everyone uses the same desk when they come in (which they have to continually rent). But with rental policy, everyone had to clear out all the "useless" things from their desks. "Useless" things like programming tech manuals, notebooks and notepads, power cords to charge phones at work, all pictures of friends and family and name plates. Removing name plates from desks so you can easily see who is where and have their name available and getting rid of personal photos helps foster friendship and community.
In Gunjan's ideal world, we all program and work in solitary confinement, a big empty room with a single laptop so there can be no distractions. Oh also all your coworkers are also all crammed in that same prison and taking loud phone calls next to you all day long (to reduce distraction). Nobody talks to anyone in the same confinement prison as they all work with people in other confinement prisons. Sorry, I mean "hubs'"
The monitor stands wobble and won't stay up. There is a big cafe but not staffed other than $5 self service candy bars you can get if you need lunch (healthy fuel!! - We Put People First). Some of the working tables have couches so worn with material coming out, you would complain if they were at an old airport terminal. Most of the cubes go up to chest level to make sure you can hear every coworker's phone call around you in a 5 cubicle radius (it's important you know what all 15 of those coworkers are doing in all their calls).
I agree below and have to bring in all of my equipment every day. The keyboards are like these 5x10 flat keyboards I can't even type on it. I'm a touch typist at well over 120 WPM and cannot even use the "provided keyboard." My preference for a keyboard is an ergonomic keyboard that I own and used to leave in my desk (in the old days when we were provided a desk at the grace of the company). Now I have to bring that in, in a case, laptop, lunch, any notebooks or tech manuals I need, water, coffee. When I talk to my friends in other engineering companies they tell me about the fresh fruit and lunches available.. I have to tell them I have to put a quarter in a jar to get the privilege of having coffee. There is also the coffee "vending machine" which spurts out brown dirt tasting water for $1.50.
But yeah, people don't want to RTO because their lazy. That's it. It's a grand mystery actually, but one that will be solved by screaming at employees and forcing them in with the threat of firing them. I would say this would hurt morale, but Gunjan fixed that her first day! She said it was high. Can't believe all these other executives at other companies waste time trying to increase morale with tangible actions, when all they had to do was tell their team morale is high. Trust in management is high. Everyone loves the hotel cubicle rental system. And everyone is just lazy, nobody wants to work anymore, and that's why they don't want to come into their office. No other reasons.
The equipment at my location is terrible. There are keyboards which retail for $11 and deliver that experience. The monitor stands are either missing or won’t stay in position without a box to prop it up.
The single person.privacy / conference rooms lack a door and are right next to the other cubicles. It is a good thing they labeled them as “conference”. Otherwise, I would wonder about their purpose.
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No point in spending money on a hub when the next plan is to eventually start shutting some of them down.
Getting people to retire or quit was the first part and after the massive amount of layoffs this year that will be the the next step
Won't need all that costly office space when you layoff a good chunk of your employees.
The facility I work at is a nice building but services and amenities are absolutely bare minimum. We have solid internet and A/C and working restrooms, but zero of the little things that are typical in any office setting like soap to wash your hands in the kitchen/break room, paper towels, etc. It's all strictly bring your own. Every day I bring my lunch, a thermos of coffee, water, and 2 paper towels. There is space for 75+ people, but I have never seen more than 6-8 people there on any day. There are maybe 4 people besides me who stay the whole day when they come in, the rest just badge in and stay for maybe 2 hours then leave. Supposedly there were enough people mapped to this location that it might be difficult to get a work space if you didn't reserve ahead of time. I have no idea what all those people are doing. They are either completely ignoring RTO or already left the bank. I don't spend time thinking about it. I just do my 11 days per month in office and keep going.
In the Knoxville hub they spent millions right after COVID upgrading the HVAC systems and putting in a state of the art filtration system. Then decided to pull out of one of the two buildings. On top of that the Knoxville hub used to house 1,500 employees. Now you’re lucky if you see 20 people on any given day.
They sent us all home in Q4 again last year to make updates to the hub. Walked back in December and it looks like nothing changed at all.
Putting lipstick on a pig and calling it an upgrade is a stretch.
My entire floor has at most 5 people in some days less
@bx care to enlighten us or are you just here to be cryptic
More pressing issues comiŋg in the next few months than you know at your level. Why waste costs to improve simple asthetics? I would be worried about my owŋ position securîty and that of your ňeighbour
So much wasted space in our new and improved layout. A bunch of mini conference and break rooms that are unused 90 percent of the time.
Just go barefoot like all the offshore benchods