Anyone know how many of us are hybrids? Is this elementary school-style of tracking that is coming in Feb meant to force many of us to quit? And what is the point of RTO, anyway? Quality of work isn’t, for sure. It’s already proven that it doesn’t make any difference. WFH is often cited as more productive. Let alone so much less cost involved for workers. But who gives a cr-p about advantages for us (even when not impacting a company's bottom line).
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In the long run yes.
People are so caught up with the "stress" of commute. Or dropping kids off at daycare.
The fact they chose to live in Austin in 2021 is now the company's fault. The comoany needs to ensure they can meet all their personal goals and then maybe they will turn of their teams camera.
Crazy just crazy. Do you not see pushing so hard to work from home just supports the push to outsource everything overseas. I have personally seen the huge offices in India full of engineers that are closing the education and experience gap. Don't kid yourself it is scary particularly when you add AI to the mix! Ok now you can't reply with how great you are.
RTO enforcement isn't the "all hands on deck" message management thinks it is. If anything it shows they are out of ideas for solving the real problems as we'll see in the upcoming earnings calls.
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Based on your comments, I now see another reason why this board allows for anonymous posts
Lol
Everyone just put in tickets to the Help Desk on Day 1. Make them IT folks work for their money...
When they roll this out it will be "popcorn time" as a new Chevron IT system gets put in place which is also dependent on people badging properly and not lying.
Lets say an employee honestly forgets to badge in or the "system" doesnt get it, then what? I guess managers call the employee but then it is just all based on the employee's word.
Even worse will be when the inevitable failures occur like an office doesnt upload before a pay period. Or someone does not badge out and the system thinks they are sleeping overnight at the facility.
So much will go wrong that it will be funny / sad to see management now spending hours trying to figure out if Johnny and Jane went into the office for 8 hours each day or 7 hours and 25 minutes.
If IT does go through another reorg then they should call it Project Re-image.
Stop exaggerating. HCL didn’t delete 20k devices, reliable source said it was 17k including BB’s iPhone.
We had competent IT prior to imagine. Not gonna happen with MSP’s.
Chevron has invested a lot in the new location for its remaining workers in San Ramon. There is an expectation remaining employees abide by the hybrid work model schedule. When they are paying rent for their employees to be at the facility with nice accommodations it’s not an unrealistic request. To maintain a San Ramon presence we all need to do our part to make hybrid a success in new location. I have been following hybrid since we have returned to campus. Many are not following the rules, so management has a right to remind us of the agreement to maintain this benefit. I think people have forgotten hybrid schedule is a benefit.
My previous comment about “Commuting will continue” had +17/0 yesterday. I wake up to find it’s +21/-25. Who is the troll that spent 5 minutes downvoting my comment because they love to shuffle up and down the fluorescent anthill?
It always amazes me how many fall into management trap so easily. These are just simple distraction traps to change your focus from critical issue [pay and compensation]. They had been doing this for a long time [monitoring the attendance, monitoring your laptops to every click and how much time you a re on your computer, etc.] None of this is new, it is just being reminded to you so you lose focus on who is taking big chunk of the pie to fill their pockets as an excuse on why you will not get even a penny's share!
IT is overseas - how can they be quality!
Who just made a funny " quality IT resources " come on be realistic...most IT folks are failed engineers
Commuting will continue until ROCE improves. Then RTO will take credit for the company’s performance turnaround. Pay no attention to the MCPs that have been hemorrhaging money for over a decade. But really, the RTO is a de facto layoff. A lot of people reassessed their relationship with Chevron during COVID and found that this isn’t the same company it was 15 years ago.
I have an idea on improving productivity. How about if the company hires quality IT resources that don't delete 20000 devices from the network and can solve basic issues without needing to reimage your machine and causing days of lost work.
In one meeting MW asked if work compliance could be added as a fifth PMP metric!
I am a hybrid. Transitioning, so will eventually will not be.
You can tell they’re out of ideas on how to improve enterprise performance. “The problem is definitely rank/file are not in the office enough. Absolutely nothing to do with our strategy, leadership, or assets”.
You could move the entire company to a compound outside Houston, and this isn’t gonna stop the cluster that is TCO. The problem is culture.
CVX management has been spying on employees for a long time. They now have a more sophisticated means. You will be warned verbally about not being in the office than in writing. If you continue to flaunt the system, you'll get the boot.
Looks on average attendance in office is less than 2 days per week. They just want to enforce hybrid as they intended [3 days].