At the risk of getting downvoted.
, just want to express my opinion. If Cigna’s ultimate goal is to have people quit on their own, then why don’t they just make it 5 days a week ?
It’s really confusing when they make some random tweaks in their policies and make it confusing for everyone. What a waste of time this is. Again the rumor is strong that at some point they do want it 5 days a week.
Why don’t they bite the bullet and just make it simple and straightforward?
Make it 8-5 all 5 days a week and then see how complies. Fire everyone else who doesn’t comply even if they are a minute less.
Just freaking stop calling it collaboration. Who the F am I going to collaborate with when my whole team is distributed.
Just stop this sh-tshow and make it 8-5 and call it over!
I really hope HR is taking a note of this. If you want to do it , just go ALL in. That make it stupid phased approach to 20 hours a week to 3 days mandatory, but Tuesday and Wednesday mandatory. Just assign people the worst cubes , move all the jobs to India and Ireland and voila. You have an empty building again!!
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Exactly @hhk+1sdmsVyP that’s what I am talking about. Just sit down and make a list of all the draconian rules all at once and be done with it. There are many companies who made it very strict as soon as COVID rules were relaxed. In the other hand, companies that were too strict became more open to WFH.
The problem is with messaging. Cigna was were open to remote before Covid. They did hiring for WFH and people trusted that .
But by doing small increments to the rules makes it more frustrating.
I am happy to obey to rules if they tell me exactly what those are and make it “extremely clear “.
I’m personally of the mindset of, Cigna should just say “we’re your employer and so you have to follow our rules. This is one of them.” Pretending it’s for like collaboration and culture is stupid when employees are scattered across the world. Not sure if there would be less complaints if Cigna went with that approach but at least it’d be honest lol
They don’t want too many people to quit. Just enough to hit their attrition goals. If they go too far too quick they might be far more understaffed than they want. Given that the 2 biggest reasons for this are increase profit margins and increase income tax revenues (Gov of CT went around to many companies in late 2022 early 2023 saying that tax breaks for corporations would be changed if. It enough employees weee classified as CT) they don’t want to have too many less employees.
But there is also the possibility that because the ELT making these decisions are in the 1% and so out of touch with the rest of us who can’t afford Nannies, yachts, luxury health treatments and third vacation homes, and they love being in the office that they think it is a good idea. They make think the best culture is one of loving the office and complete and total compliance and fealty to the company. If so, they all need to get hit with a financial burden that brings them back to what it’s like for the rest of us.
I feel your frustration…but the thing is (and I am sure this was carefully orchestrated) there does not seem to be any explicit differentiation between job levels in that if you are the highest or lowest paid employee, you must be in the office 3/5ths of the work week. So they would risk weeding out the employees they want to keep and well as they ones they would just as soon take a hike.