Due to abuse I believe starting October you'll need to badge out of any building instead of just badge in. They're going to crack down on RTO. You'll be written up if you do not come into office
The beatings will continue until morale improves
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I think employees at 84.51 and GO are hurting the rest of the employees. A lot of employees there live downtown or nearby, so they show up for an hour, walk around to be seen and then go home to work. People who drive to the suburban offices suffer if they don't come in 4 days if they have an appointment.
Core in-office hours that are posted on different sites are 9-3 or 10-3, depending on the department.
Exactly, I work less now that we are in the office. I have the commute and getting office ready takes much longer for women to look presentable. Basically an extra 1.5 hours every morning is spent getting ready and driving instead of working. So d-mb.
@eq leadership is mad productivity is apparently down. I don't think they can accurately measure productivity because we all fake Jira numbers anyway
@x8 don’t forget all the noise related to people eating all day who were apparently never taught to chew with their mouth shut
@c6 You have a cubical? You're living like royalty! There are whole Kroger buildings where you get nothing but a table with 2 monitors, a chair and a couple drawers all crammed together in rows.
They're unproductive, distracting environments. A big open space where you hear all the conversations and sneezes & coughs drift freely.
@eq "Leadership" will be exempt from all badging requirements. They're already ghosts unless there's firing or blaming to do.
RTO stands for Rush Talent Out. We've had a year and a half of RTO now, has anyone heard of anyone getting fired over not complying? I sure haven't. I've sure seen folks leave over it though. If anything that's just another feature of RTO, make people quit voluntarily without being owed any kind of severance or unemployment check. Free layoff. My entire team is remote, including my manager. But sc--w me because my residence happens to be an hour away from a hub. I've done my job perfectly fine for the past 5 years without driving 10 hours a week to sit by myself in a cubicle, and I'll continue to do so until they tell me bye. They can write me up all they want. If they want my seat filled at the office they'll have to hire someone else. Good luck with that.
@eq I am not sure if the rules are the same for "Leadership".
Rediculous when basically 90% of my team is remote or even in another country (brazil). They got themselves into this by hiring fully remote people during covid and now want to punish everyone, be it by layoffs of remote workers or this policy. KR is losing its luster and is going to lose skilled people over BS policy
They already track badge data, I’ve seen it firsthand. I honestly hope they require us to badge out. Seeing “Leadership” or HR in office is like spotting Sasquatch - it’ll force them in for more than 4 hours, too.
RTO was disguised as a way to increase collaboration, but it’s for city tax purposes - just Google it, lots of news articles confirming this.
@dz exactly. We had Alternative Work Schedule pre-Covid. Most people I know at other companies still get 3 days/week. It feels like we’re taking big steps backwards.
@c4 nah the issue is "leadership" requiring people come in office to begin with. It's 2025, most companies allow WFH. Kroger did over 10 years ago
@av I’m feeling inspired 😂 I literally go in 4 days a week to sit in a fu--ing cubicle and maybe speak to one person and it’s not even work related….but yay collaboration
There are people at all buildings known for coming in late (if at all) and leaving about 1pm. Until leadership handles those offenders, as they should, all of use who come in on time, work a full day and only WFH or arrive late for documented, legitimate reasons like the occasional doctor/dentist appointments we will all suffer.
About half my team is local, the other half remote. Us locals simply haven't complied with RTO at any point. I told my boss that I won't be in, so just let me know when I'm fired. A year and a half later, I still have a job. HR/leadership has yet to define a punitive measure for simply not showing up. So just don't, they can't fire everyone. Badge swipe data was inevitable, but it doesn't change anything for my team. They can backfill a new team if they don't like it.
Are they going to enforce hours in office? Like you must be there at exactly 9-5 or something?
@a4 lots of safety concerns being unable to exit a building without a badge.
@a4 all Kroger wants is the tax benefit. RTO is not about being collaborative or anything beneficial for the workers, it's about control and greed. Resist.
I questioned why they didn’t do this already. There are many leaders not enforcing the RTO 4-days and others allowing half days in the office or some workers just coming for the scan and getting coffee and leaving @ 84.51.