There seem to be quite a few 'expense reduction' meetings - be ready for change. Projects delayed, funding cut, people changing roles. Don't think it will be just the other guy or CoSA. This looks like a substantial change in the way we do business.
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The home mortgage market continues to sink with other banks laying off more. I would guess USAA Bank will continue to shed any employee related to its mortgage business. If you are in the Bank, get out, don't stay in USAA. Find a different place to be.
For most teams - travel budgets have been cut. If you're in some other location besides San Antonio, you won't get to travel there for project planning, etc. You will become ever more in a silo of your own world while the people in San Antonio location will be included in their cliques.
All of this points out to a very obvious conclusion for most people - leave USAA! There are many companies out there hiring. Many USAA employees have left in 2020-2022. They all saw there are better places to be that are not bleeding or sinking.
Remote will gradually be given only to very hard to fill roles or if you had some political pull where you get to keep your legacy remote status. They want the rest to be hybrid with specific in the office days and most people will have to be fully on-site.
Yes there have been many expense meetings. The expense cuts are happening and it is will touch projects, contractors, FTE, etc. They will cut the the workers and anything they think is a nice to have while keeping the many layers of EMG. They are considering many things to cut - from the company phone you use to log in to your laptops. They are considering taking away laptops and replacing with desktops just to save costs.
Yeah I don’t see them going fully remote but keep dreaming. Lol.
Maybe they can sell a few buildings and allow remote work??