I don’t know how Macy’s “reclassifying” some people’s positions affects store employees, but everyone who was hired as a “flex position” for corporate side of things has to return to office 4 days a week. They’re doing construction of the office floors at Herald Square in NYC, but what are they changing exactly? They’re adding assigned desks and taking away conference rooms. Have a meeting you need to attend and there’s no meeting rooms available? Their advice was to just go walk through the store and take your meeting.
They’re offering 0 incentive for employees that can completely do their jobs remotely to return to the office 8 hours a day 4 days a week. They want us to “cowork in a creative environment” while being surrounded by beige walls, desks/cubes with no privacy, fighting over meeting rooms just so they can justify having all of that space and its cost.
Snacks? Better coffee? Maybe some other colors than red and beige and white and black? Nope! But come into the office because we are watching you!
They also do not consider the amount of employees they have working there that do not live within NYC. Have wages raised? No, but the cost of transportation sure has from the Long Island railroad to NJ transit to the MTA subway and bus fares.
I don’t know that this company is gonna last much longer. They really only have the 100th year of the parade this year going for them.
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The return to office mandate is c-suite way of making people quit so they will not have to pay out severance. The workload will be given to the people who remain.
This company is top heavy. Too many senior leaders and c-suite executives.
The party is over. Its about time people return to work. No more running errands, cleaning house, baby sitting and chatting with the neighbors on company time. You should and will be accountable. Hooray for Macy's
"Mommy help! They are telling me I have to go into work! Me want stay at home!"
Bro... your job isn't necessary. The important people are working in the stores.
yeah, I plan to quit by may. Su-ks that the job market is a fu--ing disaster right now but working at macy's gets less appealing every second. I'm 100% committed to getting out of there.
Meanwhile my boss is still allowed to continue to work from home from a different country for a week every other month to visit her boyfriend lol