After the Covid fiasco Gracenote employees overwhelmingly agreed we can work remotely and we know the leaders didn’t like that. Is this pay back for not going back to the office?
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In the meeting 2/12 Christine said the GTIC wasn't considered to be a GCC because there has to be a physical presence and since we all work from home now it wasn't considered.
We certainly didn't convince them to continue WFH despite them wanting us back in office, do you think they would have given a sh-t if that were the case? I heard rumors before covid was even a thing that they wanted to move that direction. I suspect that's because moving these jobs to India was always the plan, it's not like this came out of the blue. Look at how they changed workflows over the past five years, broken into an assembly line where each person only needs to know a little piece, which makes it much easier to farm out that work to less skilled workers. WFH just allowed them to save some money while ironing out details.
and look, nielsen did not do things correctly. we all know this. it’s just obviously massively upsetting that they couldn’t correct the ship in time to make American and European offices better aligned etc to keep our jobs and knowledge base. My dept had rotating head bosses for so long that we never had a clear vision or directives. So needing to realign makes sense. It just royally su-ks it’s at our expense because we’re all (mostly all) ready and willing to pivot and keep working for each other and company goals. It’s not our fault we had bad or absent leaders, but we pay for their mistakes while they’re happily employed elsewhere.
no.
in the sports townhall they reaffirmed no return to office and that offices are expensive so they’re looking at office spaces and cost. they closed a few offices in nyc post pandemic.
maybe you even saved yourselves longer by not being in office?