This is a legitimate concern I have. If they are going through these great of lengths to HUB employees, the employees who they pride themselves on wanting, what does that mean on what’s next for remote workforce?
It seems each month something gets worse and the bank just took a large swing of the bat at its prized hub population.
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@aa A lot of hybrid workers would trade promotion and their geocode to not have to worry about constantly changing guidelines. It's great you're remote, but you can also admit in many ways it's an enviable position compared to what hybrid folks have to deal with.
@a2 Do you have any evidence that "remote population get to just relax" or are you just pulling cr-p outta your butt? This is exactly how "leadership" would like to divide us and you are taking the bait.
As someone said ... remote employees have already gotten the boot in the latest pay raise due to the id--tic geocode policies AND they are not eligible for growth/promotions. So I would not hold it against them even if they relaxed.
@a8 lower salary position. Go back and replay Gunjan's townhall from 2025 Q3 or Q4 where she mentions it.
@a3 what makes you think that having the contact center remote “makes sense”? That group, over everyone else, should be in a HUB for some oversight, given all the sensitive data they access.
I’m sorry but this is such a twisted perspective that you think remote employees are just relaxing. If you are remote, they are going to make those people report into a HUB office OR ELSE….bye bye…. Remote employees also have no opportunity for promotion or to even apply for any other job within the company.
I genuinely don't understand. I cost the bank less money because I don't mind taking lower pay. I save the environment by reducing a ton of carbon emissions. I don't have any team members in the office. I produce amazing work with teams across the country. They continue to outsource to ANOTHER COUNTRY. Layoffs are happening whether you come in or not. Remote work is not why the bank is struggling. Not even close.
Until they're mandated to start going into a hub location. They're laying the RTO groundwork and then will pivot to the remote staff. Gunjan made it very clear that Remote are for specific positions where it makes sense (i.e. contact center staff).
I really think it's annoying that the remote population get to just relax and not deal with any of this. Majority of them are just barely out of the radius or have "exceptions." It'd be one thing if we went full RTO for everyone like other companies, but having these two employee types is unfair, also considering we have so many remote senior leaders.