Are they actually seeing those badge swipes? I dont see people on achor days ij assigned cubes come inalmost ever. Maybe this is all a hoax theyre monitoring when theyre not actually seeing whos coming in or not
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It's wild to me that some band 4s are at benches. In my previous office most of the band 3s had offices!
"You won't see me at my desk because I was given a bench in a busy and loud area. I host calls with senior leadership every other day so have to find a desk somewhere quiet so I can effectively host my meetings without disruption. I miss the days that band 4s were guaranteed a cube, not that it matters since the new cubes offer virtually no privacy. "
I'm thinking you may want to make it as uncomfortable for them as it is for you. Stay on the bench, let them see and hear the activity around you, constantly apologize for disruptions, ask for people to repeat because "sorry, couldn't hear you over the noise", and so on.
“It's especially my business if it's affecting me disproportionately in comparison to peers and "leaders".”
Nothing is affecting you disproportionately. It seems you’ve chosen to follow the rules while others have decided to take the risk and not. Everyone is free to decide if they’re willing to take the same risk and not comply and see what, if anything, happens!
Manager here. Your senior leadership can 100% get WAH approved and not have the FOW be applicable to you. Issue is that they will have to really justify it, and while in some cases they might be able to get it for a few people, it won't be most. The only way this awful RTO policy will reverse is mass non-compliance or when most of ELT cashes out and the new ELT that comes in realize how much they destroyed this company.
Senior leadership may not have had a day in FOW, but they can get WAH approved if it is deemed business necessary.
@4sky+1t8x7QWO I don’t think senior leadership had say in the FOW policy. It’s purely HR driven to show numbers that can save taxes. Express your concern to the manager and let them solve it instead.
“ I host calls with senior leadership every other day so have to find a desk somewhere quiet so I can effectively host my meetings without disruption.” I host similar meetings, but I don’t move and I turn my camera on and I sometimes stop and apologize for the people behind me moving around and even looking at my monitor and for me not being able to hear (my one ear headset they gave me is junk). They now have to pay the price for putting me someplace less productive. If my manager ever says something about it and how my meetings are less effective I will, in writing, explain that they wanted to move me to a disruptive environment where quiet conference rooms are mostly unavailable and that if it is so important I should be made WAH. You should do the same thing; senior leadership should pay the price for FOW, not just you.
I am in three full days each week but I spend my time in a conference room by myself so I can blatantly waste time with impunity.
You won't see me at my desk because I was given a bench in a busy and loud area. I host calls with senior leadership every other day so have to find a desk somewhere quiet so I can effectively host my meetings without disruption. I miss the days that band 4s were guaranteed a cube, not that it matters since the new cubes offer virtually no privacy.
re: "At the end of the day it really is none of your business."
are you kidding me? Cigna made it my business by making a company wide proclamation about it affecting every last one of us. It's especially my business if it's affecting me disproportionately in comparison to peers and "leaders". If the whole thing is just a ploy to get me to quit, then i'm going to shout about how much it's my business.
It doesn’t take any extra time to notice that some of the people around me come in maybe one day a week and definitely don’t come in both anchor days. I have way too much work to be spending any time tracking what day or who it is or anything like that. And guess what? This isn’t the privacy of your own home. This is Cigna’s business, making it our business that you aren’t following the rules. Once again, I don’t care and would never rat anyone out. But don’t try to say what I see with my own eyes in an office setting is “none of my business.”
Maybe if you spent more time worrying about yourself instead of monitoring everyone else we wouldn't be in this spot. At the end of the day it really is none of your business.
@1vvi+1t8x7QWO It’s totally fair for the OP to point out that others aren’t following the rules. It’s not worse than a draconian policy. When there is a standard for everyone, it is everyone’s business if others are meeting that standard. However it would be very uncool if the OP starting reporting these people.
I follow the rules. It’s a sometimes painful personality trait. I have noticed many others (especially managers and directors and above) not following FOW and other rules. It bothers me. But I would never rat on anyone.
What’s worse than FOW? Coworkers monitoring other coworkers for compliance! Mind your own business!
lmao If nobody at all comes in, they can't fire everyone.
The amount of people not coming at all is considerably high . It will be easy for HR to weed out those . But some of them could really be assets to the company so I wonder how if same rules will be applied to people differently.