Please someone convince me why Oracle doesn't implement return to office policies. David Ellison has made his companies go back for 5 days a week. Most of the other big tech companies are at least hybrid. I feel like they want us to leave, and man this would REALLY make me leave. It's our only remaining unique quality :/
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@c6 losing your office due to lack of use has been policy for years. Why should Oracle pay for expensive office space if it isn't being used.
RTO would absolutely be the last straw for me. Remote work is one of the VERY few perks that Oracle has.
@OP Some big 500 Fortune implemented RTO to avoid severance costs did not work and now "managers" are required to have a certain number of direct reports in order to keep your "manager" title = ADDING extra team members. Lots of job listings in the Bay Area (San Francisco, CA) requiring to be 5 days in office. OP checks badge reports, but no policy enforcement for now...if you do not come to office 3 days a week, you lose your office/physical space and change to Flex status which I think it is Better deal. Some companies are more EXTREME, they check each person id badge and you need to have an average of 8 hours per day. This rule applies to BOTH exempt and nonexempt! = they want YOU to leave/quit!
@a5 That's right. I think only 2 of the 7+ buildings are used by Oracle. Maybe less. The rest are indeed leased to various unrelated companies.
with AI rollout across the company, which includes AI collecting all metrics on your work, it makes no sense to mandate any return to office, unless you are an out of touch boomer manager who just needs to hover over their subjects.
@a1 where are you going to go to? Seriously, who is hiring that won't expect you to be in the office.
I'm sure LE will gladly leave his island paradise to go back to an office. Needs to set a good example, after all.
RTO? So you want to move to Nashville? Because that's the office you'll be reporting to.
@OP most Oracle owned properties are now on the market for sale. Leases are being exited early or put in reserves as a tax break. No RTO, is in anyone's future unless you will be working in the large scale data center build. Oracle future is AI/Data Centers.
Given that O has cancelled leases and leased out properties it owns, does it even have enough desks for RTO?
For example, most if the BRM campus has been rented out.
Actually after being laid off I realized that sticking to the office was a good decision as it gave me two full months of benefits, 401K match and time to max out my HSA/401K thanks to WARN.
Would make sense… keep everyone remote so they don’t have to file WARN acts than implement it after the layoffs are done.
I would absolutely leave.