Have you seen the Q&A document for managers which states there is a tool to track attendance and that disciplining employees is mandatory otherwise the manager will be disciplined?!?!?!
What a crazy few months, the company pivots from valuing employees to mistrusting them to the Nth degree!
Read this
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1mOwKxDk#
And the lie
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-giant-qualcomm-will-have-a-flexible-return-to-office-policy-for-workers-183304424.html
Cristiano Amon (QC CEO, appointed in '21) dictated a new direction at an all hands meeting yesterday. I am not on social media so please spread this on.
I am not speaking as an entitled prema-donna. I work insane hours and love my job. I do the work of at least two people. I don't mind as I live alone and can work when I like. The office for me is a short drive.
I am not asking for blanket home working either, I like being in the office. Just to keep the 'flexible working promise' that he made when he took the job and not be threatened should I not swipe in every day. Let our management decide when we need to be in the office, they know what we do. Amon is way too detached and should concentrate on direction not implementation.
I only have a short commute, which make it even more pointless driving, just to sit at a worse desk and chair and write the same code. If I am needed in the office I will be there.
I have found the pressure of suddenly being required in the office, the interruptions and need to fit my life round work rather than the other way round has seriously affected me mentally. Almost went off with stress.
Qualcomm, historically, has been a company that really cared about the welfare of their employees. There is so much internal feel good stuff it can almost seem too much.
One of Amons' first acts was to 're-structure' HR (yes that means fire) HR and move it online.
In the meeting yesterday, Amon announced a new tag line "Engineering Human Progress" - er by going backwards.
He cited the mandated return to the office as from his experience as a young engineer - yes - 30 years ago before the Internet existed.
He made a veiled threat that if people complain he could make it 5 days.
He had the cheek to state "We are a flexible company - we don't mind changing things" and then in answer to one question about the dictat that got past the censor, his response "Nice try, not up for discussion..."
The forum has a Q&A. I put in two questions about the effects of the forced work from the office. We can't see the waiting list, but I expect other 'moderated' questions on the topic were shut down in the same way. Could this be political censorship on Slido?
In the same meeting he announced increasing the power and size of software engineering. Good luck Mr Amon, finding software engineers, especially in AI and IoT, who will sign up for that one?
The 1st day of RTO, less than 1/4 of my team actually came to the office. I saw my manager had talked with our sr director for hours. I guess that’s not a good thing.
Wah wah wah, I don't want to go into the office. I want to sit home and do other things. I am an entitled brat.
You cry babies need to grow up. It's been proven that a workforce is most productive when they are in the office vs at home. Be happy you have a job, for now.
It is to force attrition and prevent costly layoffs.
I'm returning to office. But it's not at Q anymore. I switched offices. Goodbye Q.
Get your arsses back in the office and get some work done you cry babies. Whiners will be on the top of the resource action list!
Any company that says they want the employees back in the office means they need to cut people and this is one way to do it. If you don't follow the policy, it gives the company the right to fire you. Also, when you get fired, you can't collect unemployment. Only when you get laidoff, you can collect unemployment. And since fears of recession coming our way, many companies need to reduce cost. This is one way to do it. So, it's best to just follow the policy (especially if you are the only earner in the family with healthcare). This way, if they lay you off, then you can at least get unemployment and severance pay.
I have not seen it (have not searched for it), but one thing that is obvious to me is that qualcomm is a directionless company with incompetent CEO who does not have any plan for the future of the company.
Also from what I noticed is that employees at Q are so scared of losing their jobs that they cannot confront such a behaviours from incompetent higher managements. We saw apple, disney and google at least tried and they also had 3 days in office not 4!!!
Well you get what you deserve.