I have heard that a very high up person basically confirmed to some people that they have plans to bring everyone in 5 days a week starting this fall. Has anyone else heard this?
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Yes, other banks have an in office 5 days a week policy, however, much like U.S. Bank, pre pandemic, other banks have a generous flexible work policy, such that the five day a week in office employee can work remotely on a prescribed schedule and policy, it works and it works well. The U.S. Bank three plus days a week, big brother monitoring, ambiguous attendance policy, shifting attendance rules, let's run everybody off that we can culture and policy, couched as RTO (we are five year post pandemic now) most large banks with real leadership have already crossed these bridges rather than continuing to using them to eliminate employees and destroy a professional culture.
GK said she is being generous with 3 day expectations while our peers are requiring 5 days. It was said publicly during the last Town Hall so I doubt it will change unless we hear it from her again. Issue is space. Bank does not have the space capacity for everyone to show up 5 days a week for 8 hours a day. It is not out of the goodness of their hearts.
Gunjan wants your a-s in the office… she doesn’t care about anyone, the banks entire culture has gone to he-l, highly recommend everyone start looking for a better place to work. USB is awful….
If people keep whining about the policies, they will follow other financial institutions and go to five days a week. Now they will just track you in an office.
This literally is not the intention. I’ve heard this multiple times.
Then they better start assigning us desks because there is no need for the laptop to be coming home with me every night.
@a2 Yes, but they SAY a lot of things. What sticks is always the question
@OP no. I know several SVPs in HR, and heard Gunjan publicly say many times that’s not even up for discussion. There’s A LOT right now I don’t believe, but I truly don’t think 5 days is on the list.
Given that the expectation is 60% of available working days, this seems possible. Most people understood 3+ to mean 3 is okay, but clearly that's not the case.