This is their way of getting people to leave since they don’t want the black eye of laying off 30% of the workforce they don’t need. Playing chess no checkers. Don’t be a puppet
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I think what’s also super frustrating was having our in office vs remote production statistics thrown in our face for absolutely no reason. If you are anything like me, you are almost 4x more productive at home with way less distractions. They don't care about how much work you do or how good the quality is, its about forcing us out the door so they can go pay people in a 3rd world country $1.36 an hour to do the same job. Look out for yourselves and make the best decision for you. Personally, I’d rather jump ship and make more money being in office more if this company is forcing us into that anyways. There is no incentive to work here anymore now that the tuition benefit got slashed, no reward for completing CPCU, got rid of the tenure bonus, and paying way too much for sub par benefits. Watching the company go this far downhill in the last 4 years has been really un motivating and 99% of the workforce is no longer excited to work here and be a sf employee. It’s really unfortunate management values going against what the employee values vs continuing the mission of the individual who started this company 100 years ago. Mecherle emphasized “honesty and treating people fairly while believing in ETHICAL impulse to right perceived wrongs.” The management now does the exact opposite and the writing is on the wall as far as how they feel about us. Good luck eveyone!
@a6 Allstate is 100% remote. Liberty Mutual, Progressive, and Farmers all offer remote or hybrid positions depending on where you live.
Honestly i don't care if me leaving saves them money, I'm tired of my efforts on the job supporting the tone deaf, out of touch managers in this company. I'm so sick of the adversarial approach and the old world fear based management style this company thrives on. Also, I'm sick of being at a company in deep decline, its depressing.
Also its like every 6 months there is some new change that causes so many problems and makes things difficult for no reason no improvement to any party involved.
Go on indeed see how often management is mentioned negatively. This company is bad managers supported on the back of us, who they treat poorly for our efforts. Sick of a babysitter TM in a low trust environment. Sick of hearing about all the bad ideas from upper managment. Tired of the worthless CEO doing nothing positive and then reading he gets a multi million dollar bonus for it.
When is this company going to act like a leader in the insurance industry. When are we going to innovate new products? When are we going to be "ahead of the curve" vs always reacting? Why cant we strive to have a happy workforce that works with management, not against?
Im tired of my friends and family suggesting i get a job at a company that treats me better, recognizes my accomplishments, and does more than tear me apart with petty feedback on things that dont matter.
I dont think i can take two weeks in office, nor do i want to try. If the company doesnt care about me, why should i care about its needs?
@a6 you live under a rock so its not applicable to you.
My pay is so low that literally 97% of the jobs for my position beat my current statefarm pay. The 3% are some cr-p postings that don't make sense like 10 years of experience for a new grad salary etc. So it makes sense for me to leave. Remote work and the garbage pension was the only thing keeping me, they removed remote work for hybrid positions and deny hybrid employees from going remote. Now it makes sense to jump as investing the extra the income from a new job can beat overall pension returns in a lifetime.
Cheaper of you quit than get laid off.
What jobs are out there are remote only or significantly WFH? Everyone I know has had to go back pretty much full time. The market is not like it was.
Or ill just take a raise, 100% WFH, and work for a company growing vs shrinking?
Whats unique about State Farm that people will pick working in office for vs another company with WFH on the table? Use to be a pension, culture, and family environment, none of that is us now.
All they do with this is pi-s off their employees, it makes no sense.....i mean they need people to do the work still, why be so abrasive? Staffing is a continual issue too, like how on earth is this a good idea?
Im not sure i want to work for a company with executives this out of touch and against me the worker.....your job isnt that good, pay is not great, and the work is frustrating....its a job im putting up with...