Keep cutting staff, squeeze the remaining people harder, and use fear to keep everyone in line. That's the strategy here. They're not even attempting to hide it anymore. Deadlines are tighter and tighter, expectations are higher, and there's always the unspoken warning about what happens if you push back. This is just how Wells Fargo operates these days.
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It is called: The Shardss Protocol.
Oh look, some guy that isn't aware that productivity monitoring software is a thing. At WF, no less. RTO and hours on office has nothing to do with anything employees have done with respect to office time. It's not a factor. At all. Oh, they say it does but it's all a lie. The entire purpose of the policy is to motivate people to quit. That's it. There's no other grand motivation, purpose, or root cause. Shart wants us all gone, but he doesn't want to pay severance to get rid of us. That's why RTO is a thing. That's why 8 hrs is a thing. It's ridiculous to suggest that an exec team that has already downsized 100,000 people wants us in office. They want you to leave the office and to never come back. 0 days a week, 0 hours per day. That's their goal.
@k1 meant "uninformed"
Talk about being "horribly informed" - I'd say that's you.
Many front line managers noted the increase in productivity when employees had to work from home during Covid. Just because you worked from home didn't mean that you didn't have to work - where in the world is your brain at?
This is not to say that someone couldn't get done in 4 hours what it took them 8 hours to do in the office - because being in the office is less productive. My husband currently goes into the office once a week - and it's a day he knows he's not getting anything done, other than maybe meetings.
@bw I'll tell you whats less productive than those things. Doing most of that just to coffee badge and turn around to go home, then being nonexistent for hours at a time for any work related activity during office hours. You can pretend that category of employee didn't exist for years on end but you'd be mistaken. They are the reason you have to carry your entitled rear end to work every day so try focusing your outrage where it belongs, unless you've been one of those do nothings for years and are actually just mad somebody has finally messed up your gravy train. So which is it? Are you horribly misinformed or are you actually a worthless piece of cr-p thats making everyone else pay for your numerous shortcomings? BTW you can leave any time so what are you waiting for hoss? You just got that fat bonus so put your money where your mouth is. Too scared to leave? How predictable.
You must be new or recently head out of tush?
WF has been doing massive layoffs since at least 2009 and making the remaining employees pick up the slack. We've been doing more with less for way too long. At some point, enough is enough. All this while the Sr Execs rake in the BIG $$$$$.
They hire staff in India and call it a success when it's anything but. Puts more work on the US staff to fix the things that India does. Yet this doesn't go into their charts - and they'll never admit they're wrong and fix it.
Survival of the fitest. Or if you will Darwinism. Time to shut up or get out.
There's nothing less productive than driving around, parking, walking through a giant admin building, finding a desk, setting up your tech, blathering about the weather with randos, walking a quarter mile to find a bathroom, or any of the other useless cr-p that sitting in a big distracting building comes with. Stop making it sound like work. I see people every day I'm in that are doing nothing but goofing off and BSing with their office bros about non-work stuff.
Thats how all firms have acted for decades. WFs mistake is being so slack for the last several years than an entire generation of employees acts like you shot their dog when you ask them to even come to work, much less be productive and accountable when they are there. Grow up.
You just described every firm out there. How business is done now. “More with less” mentality unfortunately.
It’s time for a revolution. Sc--w all this.