It's recently come to my attention that any remote employees that live close to an office they are able to travel to will be told to go back to office again. There are teams that are remote only that will be told the same thing that do not live anywhere close to an office and will have to either move, or will be let go.
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The whole point is voluntary attrition. ELT wants less employees believing the company can somehow run itself with AI bots. If the company get driven to the ground in the next 5 years the ELT and board still walks away with millions. The rest of us are out of work wondering why we put energy into trying to make OpenText successful. Mark ran it like a Ponzi scheme acquiring companies to cover up companies failures. Mark and Sandi’s cult of personality ran the company and now with them going the truth has come out. The future ain’t what is use to be. Stop helping the ELT now.
Rumor mill had it that anyone who was remote and at risk was given a form. 2 options - acknowledge the RTO policy, or take severance immediately. Those who are (at least for now) given a pass may not have gotten that form email. That would include people already treated as office or those who may have an informal, legal, or medical exemption.
Since enforcement only starts next week, and it may take a week or 2 before HR starts reaching managers over it, we'll only see how quickly they move to discipline later. They gave themselves permission to do anything, only real question is how soon they go to termination for cause or listed for easy layoff.
The only change not officially announced yet is rollout in EMEA of this Global Policy!
What are you on about, this policy was announced weeks ago .