Did anyone listen to Aero’s townhall yesterday morning and hear JC’s comments on hybrid schedule? Prepare yourself everyone, we’re moving back to old school mentality of being in the office 5 days a week by Q3.
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Gas prices would likely go down if more people were allowed to work remotely because the demand for gas would be less. Reduced gas prices and less people on the road would be beneficial for society and would be better for the environment. We should have a reduction in new office space being constructed and instead pivot to more residential.
@4wic+1qwt4JCj Honeywell actually gave me a slide over camera cover as a gift when I joined hahahahaaha. And yes, in the old days you used to get a swag bag during onboarding!
I’m out if that happens
@4wic+1qwt4JCj my laptop camera has a built-in manual shutter
" Ordering everyone back to 5 days a week would be the death of the company." Make no mistake, that will happen and the company will survive! So many times, have statements been made on this board about the demise of Allied..er Honeywell that if I had bet a $100.00 every time I had seen that I would be a Trillion by now.
Honeywell is watching other companies closely, they are not going to lead the way on this. Other companies are sticking with 3-2, the top talent will not tolerate back to the office 5 days a week. Ordering everyone back 5 days a week would be the death of the company.
This all smells like a potential lawsuit against Honeywell if they do not revert back to 100% on-site. Back in the 2018-19 time frame there were mass layoffs of folks who were remote, who sat at non-aero sites, and who were not willing to relocate. The rationale was improved efficiency, team collaboration, etc.. A lot of good people ended up being RIF’ed. Do the folks who were let go have a legal case if HW does not go back 100% on-site?
The challenge is the pandemic driven remote work environment has created a sense of entitlement, reshaped household spending habits redirecting commuting costs to new debt, removed the commuting barrier to where folks live….
Uncomfortable to admit, but all these challenges fall on the decisions of each of us, not HW. If I recall correctly, it was made very clear that the remote work rules were temporary.
You can only chuckle at all of this….”you mean I actually have to come to work”. Don’t complain…either su-k it up and go back to what was, or quit. This is certainly an entertaining thread…thanks:).
@4wic+1qwt4JCj I think you need a holiday.
It will only take one more “cyber” event to give them the reason to pull the trigger. VPN will be blamed and it will become “permission only” just like usb write access. Want to work from home? Beg.
You heard it here first.
Some need to be within reach of their master's boot at all times, and pine for a return to their foul-smelling cubicle.
For many working in the office is unnecessary. Many projects these days are global. I regularly used to work with teams in India, China and US being located in the UK. Office working in this regard is meaningless since meetings are conducted via teams. Ironically, When I went back into the office following lockdown. Teams culture was so engrained that people in the same office held meetings via teams rather than booking mtg. Rooms.
Aside the gloomy, dirty building and sk---y cubicles there is diabolical IT support and regular IT failures at work, no stationary, shockingly poor food options, excessive noise pollution, disgusting bathrooms, fight for meeting rooms (to have quiet conversations with your team none of which work in your own building) and constant interruptions from 'chatty' colleagues and passers by. Sorry no cigar to the argument that it will increase productivity and certainly not morale.
Five workdays are ok, but only in case we have proper stable workspace. Spending whole week in office while searching every morning for some free seat/table is disgusting and it also consumes time. You are expected to work for 8 hours, but you spend about one hour every day just for finding table, cleaning stuff left by previous user, setting up computer with screen and docking station, sometimes restarting several times trying to reconnect wifi because there are no LAN cables available.. and then after shift you spend another time removing your stuff back into cabinet etc. That is waste of time and people.
What is the next step? To buy own computer and bring collapsible picnic chairs and tables?
OK Boomer!
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Sorry snowflakes! They call call it work for a reason. Save all the oh, they get way more from me at home.... riiiiiiiight! You all know you love working from home so you can sleep in, do your yard work, run errands etc. Some of you even have little machines that move your mouse around. Well guess what, they can see your camera and you not be there.
All the mice running wild in the buildings aren’t going to like all the people’s le back. I wonder if they will protest and picket
Hours of nightmare commuting just to rot in a dirty smelly cube and eat overpriced caf slop.
I’ll never return 100%. Might be 5 days a week but never 8 full hours.
Q3 huh? At least it gives me time to find greener pastures.
Maybe Hwell is looking to have a whole lot less butts to be putting into seats by Q3?
Commercial properties are a huge problem right now and for the future, super hard to sell or sub let so corporate is stuck with them. It looks better for them if they get b-ms back on seats, all about the optics.
Many sites removed seats and uses hot seats. So returning is impossible unless they rent more space again.