Is anyone being granted an accommodation to work remotely 100%?
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What's wild to me is they hired all these veterans who have remote accomodations for PTSD. And now they're back tracking on them. It's super messed up. They should have never done that program to begin with because it's leaving some of those vets in a worse place mentally and financially.
@ag not one person in leadership came up and helped be out with anyway. Ada chronic, lifelong and still let me be laid off? In certain cases as this, they need to make exceptions.....looks someone should have pulled someone to the side and started asking questions (not protected health information) but enough to know somethings wrong...people just can't switch off an issue and not everybody games. Now that isn't fair...
@ez that ought to be illegal. Especially threatening someone's livelihood over a medical condition that keeps them for traveling so far.
We have laptops. I don't see what the big deal is. So heavy handed with to.
I keep hearing it's all about city revenue. Then people shouldn't be going out for lunch etc. Bring something from home. Don't let them win.
@f7 can't afford to relocate
@fa same with me, i have one but they said even with all that, it was permanent (the accommodation where I can be fully remote). After so many times they quit accepting a note whether it was valid or not and even then id have to live within 50 miles of a hub to use it!
@OP I’ve had a medical accommodation to WFH for about 6 yrs now. You have to have medical forms filled out and reviewed on an annual basis. Supposedly they’re cracking down on the people who are requesting accommodations post-covid. I only know one person who got approved this year as new. Everyone else was either forced to go back hybrid or displaced.
Yes, I know someone with one who does not have to do annual renewals. Added bonus openly tells people including management that not a morning person, so schedule calls in afternoon.
Live and work in Virginia, closest office is Charlotte. Remote for 11 years. 58 years old, so if they let me go so be it. I still enjoy working and as bad as WF has become, I can’t beat the salary here in the western part of the state. No one comes close, so I’ll ride this out as long as I can!
@b7
Yikes! You have not yet gotten tapped? Lucky you! The strategic location initiative will eventually get everyone who is working remotely (including me). Unless we get an offer to relocate.
Been remote for 20 years. Was hired remote. Then they pulled the rug out from me and a bunch of other people in the same boat. I mean if I tried to go to Wells and said, "hey I want to change the conditions of my employment"....they would laugh their heads off. They can do what they want to you with this RTO garbage, and the employees have no say.
@bg I have one but they said even with all that, it was permanent (the accommodation where I can be fully remote). After so many times they quit accepting a note whether it was valid or not and even then id have to live within 50 miles of a hub to use it!
Yes, if you are in ITV.. They give them out like candy.
It was too great a chance for me. I was able to work from home. HR and OCC approved...However Location strategy still got me.... have to live within 50 miles..but my case was different. I had already been approved but i was concerned as to maintain it....
Got as far as interview and offer, but I had turn it down and get laid off. Luckily had a year severance.
My accommodation person told me that after so many times they will just flat out deny it. EVEN if it had been approved several times before. EVEN for chronic and long disabilities.
Was also told 'don't use your medical accommodation as an excuse not to come into the office and plus nobody likes having to go to the Dr to keep getting notes, and we will get tired of approving it, So I wouldn't do it'.
Between Mgr recruiter and acc team. It seemed the best decision. I guess.
Wish someone reading had more insight on this or what they thought. I feel at times I got sc--wed out of a position over something that may have been prevented based on what others on here are writing and their experiences.
Yes but max is 1 year at a time I believe
Fully remote, but it was proved internally.
Haven't done metlife yet.
But from my experience with them
They su-ks
all case managers are Indian as well
You'd need a serious medical accommodation. They will do whatever they can to accommodate you in an office. Be it a chair, sit-stand, lights, noise, GI issues, you name it.
Yes and have been remote for over 10 years. Not a single WF office exists within 200 miles of me.
Many people were converted to remote when the West End Center in North Carolina closed. I assume they all have targets on their backs.
Remote and have been for the past seven years. Have been to one “offsite” in Charlotte (in 2024). No one is irreplaceable, but I’m the only one doing what I do on our team. I’m fine with being let go but also enjoy the work still, so it’s a mixed bag.
Making appointments to let my doctors know so I can start the process. After discussing with others, I should have done this a year ago. Better late than never
I had one...right up until I was displaced.
#ADA #WfPlaysLipServiceToDisabledVets
Every mainframe people approved for 100% remote.
@ac and all of those 10k people are on a dashboard monitored at an OC level. Even if you can manage to get an exception these days, you're putting the biggest of all possible targets on your back.
Almost 10k people do.
@a3 I’m dealing with MetLife for another reason and they’re a nightmare
Yes, all remote managing directors in Connecticut seem to have exceptions because Hudson Yards is, too far? In office expectations are, "Do as I say, not as I do."
Yes, I have had a remote medical accommodation for many years and have to send in a form from my doctor annually. MetLife has now taken over the process (it used to be internal) so this will be my first year dealing with them.
I've stepped foot in a WF office exactly once in the past 15 years.
Though I'm supposed to get laid off this year.