@13d reports started last month with a warning to mgrs. And “parking deck” has been crowded for over a year. Come visit the HQ and collaborate with the rest of us standing in line at the Keurig or Bevi machine.
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Now hearing mangers will get reports of people who don’t come in 2.5 days a week
Bet the parking deck will be more crowded
@OP not just the out-of-staters… there’s a manager who never comes in and he’s local
@tx Smurf welcomed his out-of-town monthly visitors today, his SVPs. Is there a relocation timeline?
@OP These remote SVP and VP’s will fly in for the town halls for the appearance they are in the office like the rest of us that are mandated to be there. Their first class travel will then be added to corporate overhead and then the plants will be forced to take shutdowns for cost control.
@rg not just VPs outside of MN within IT, but also SVPs. And those can all make their exit any time now........
I can't actually think of any SVPs that live outside of the US now
Are you referring to IT or is it commonplace other functions have SVPs and VPs outside of MN? In IT we have 3 VPs and various directors who of course came from external and don’t live in MN. I guess they can’t very well RETURN to an office they were never stationed at, so it apparently does not apply to them.
@r4 the elimination of LTI for a group of lower and mid level leaders will also drive away what talent is left in the management ranks.
Some Portfolio 1 people will hang on for a another year or two but will say good riddance before long.
Does BB care? Nope! He's probably on his Florida flight back to (balmy) Maplewood right now. Wondering what employee benefit is next on the chopping block. Hey, but the shares are back around 170. Loyal 3Mers may have had their lives turned upside down with the latest wave of silent layoffs, but Uber is hiring in the Maplewood area.
.. and don't forget.. we never promote within anymore like we used to so the talent pool within driving distance is going to dry up uber fast..
@ph the weather has always su-ked in Minnesota. Even with global warming it's still below zero too often. What has changed for the worse is Twin Cities have gone from a safe and vibrant metropolis into a dystopian, dirty, and unsafe urban warfare zone. It was already depressingly bad before ICE showed up to make it worse. The area was very nice and relatively safe 20 years ago.
And 3M is a shell of what it was in the 1980s and 90s as a great place to work. Starting with Mcnerney, the work environment has become passive aggressive to the point of driving ordinarily good people to become sadistic. Sad but true. And it's only getting worse under the guy who makes 20 million and has no vested interest in the long-term prosperity of the company and its employees.
@OP RTO has to be about control or driving people out. It makes no sense to have people in the office for jobs that collaborate with sales reps across USAC, factories across the countries, operations in Costa Rica, and customer service who knows where.
3M Is a sinking ship and instead of hiring from the best talent across the country, they instead want to restrict themselves to a talent pool within 30 miles of Maplewood, MN?! A place where weather su-ks, taxes are amongst the highest in the country, they actually defunded the police, you cant eat downtown Minneapolis without getting carjacked or corralled by protesters, and fraud is systematic; Seems like a great way to get the best of the best. LOL.
Movement is the only thing anyone hears. Minneapolis showed how, and Springsteen will sing a song. #fighttheman
Have not seen my VP in person for months. He just goes between his house in Arizona and South Dakota while we have to go in to the office. Must be nice. Should of moved out of state when everyone else did.
SVPs and VPs are the untouchables
They can do whatever they like
Property taxes are insane in Texas.
Do you expect those highly paid leaders to move to Minnesota and pay income tax like the rest of us?
Rules for thee, not for me.
No sniveling and keep your head down. Above your pay grade.