Thread regarding Walgreens layoffs

@ek It's true for most companies. IT has been sent offshore for decades as well as importing H1B visa IT works.

@dn offshore resources are part of the reason IT su-ks.

I love working from office, I am living out of state, but seems others will go to the office, I would love to join them and see them every day. Thank you for new Walgreens leadership to make this happen. Looking forward to see our team there

@dq Profit & Loss. Basically any jobs where they are making decisions that should help the company grow sales and profit.

The Profit & Loss owners are the ones trying to cram themselves into the 50 person meetings referenced in the town hall would be quick wins to cut for funding all the investments. Really if you think about all the losses we've had maybe the owners should take responsibility.

@dn What is P&L? Thanks.

TBH, given the shape the company is in, while I tend to agree certain types of roles could be flexed office/home, in these circumstances having all corporate employees in-office, in Deerfield, makes sense. Especially for any roles that own part of the P&L. If you’re in a non-P&L role/division, fine, but I’d also suspect those roles could be optimized using AI-powered tech platforms & off-shore resourcing.

Be rational, a manager/director/vp who majority of his/her team are in the office, why this person should remain remote, working from distance, how he/she can lead his team. This is not fair to the team members.

Working from office let you to work with each other, having more focus. Be happy, because you will start to be helpful. However to be fair, all the employees should back to the office. If they cannot relocate , they need to think about other jobs.

@d7 You really drank the corporate Kool Aide, huh? LOL!
People do NOT need to work in person to get their jobs done. That is old fashioned Boomer thinking. If you don't trust your employees, then why are they working for you?
Responsible adults can WFH and be just as productive as little worker bees stuck in the office.
I hate su-k ups who try to say they like working onsite. They must have miserable home lives or something. Or they can't stay focused enough to do their work without people around them watching them work. No one needs to work in person anymore - that's why Teams exists!!!

@ed7 - You are incorrect before COVID we were hybrid 3 days per week.

What is wrong with returning to the office? Before covid, how people worked? This work from home culture came after covid. Walgreens has debt because of you! You don’t work and don’t have performance! You just think about having high salary and do nothing! This is normal to go to work in usual work hours! If I was the leadership, they must ask everyone across the country relocate to IL. This is normal, when you go to other companies, they will ask you to relocate to be able to go to the office in normal days.

Why do I have to drive into the office 4 days a week when my manager gets to WFH each day from his huge mansion in another state?! If I have to be here, so should he!!!! Don't we need to "collaborate" in person? Isn't that what Walgreens considers important?? Let him spend 3 hours in traffic each day so he can sit in a boring, undecorated corporate office.

My boss lives in a mansion in a state far away. There is NO reason for me to be on campus other than to get my stupid 4 punches in each week. I live over 30 miles out and the commute is HE-L! And I barely interact with my team at all in person. If we do interact, it's to complain about having to be in the office for no reason!!!!
Walgreens needs to wise up and do what Allstate did - sell the headquarters for MILLIONS and let works WFH! "Collaboration" is a weak excuse for making people waste gas and tolls commuting hours each day just to be "compliant".

@ac Ok Ginger, appreciate the sarcasm, but this isn’t about wanting to be an executive or avoiding work. It’s about raising a fair point: the impact of 3+ hour daily commutes on productivity, retention, and employee well-being. That’s a legitimate business concern, not a diary entry

Dear Diary:
I wish I was a high level manager. I should have taken more math and science and I could have been a contender. I like WFH and complain about normal office hours and commuting. It is jusť no fair. The end

@a1 Working for one of the call centers, it would be helpful to know what the plans are for the support centers. Normally, I would agree working in the office is beneficial but Walgreen's culture leaves a lot to be desired and the low pay is not worth the commute.

@a1 To any remote executive reading this—there’s a beautiful home for sale right next to me in Chicago. Please, move in. I’d love nothing more than to commute with you daily in below-freezing temps, spending 2.5 hours one way together. We can collaborate on ways to make Walgreens better while shivering at the bus stop and the multiple train platforms

Very confusing… The agenda said support center updates, but there weren’t any. Also, a lot of the executives are remote, are they gonna make them move to Chicagoland?