Anyone. Confirmation. How would that work?
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I’m hearing more and more about this too. Some from folks close to leadership and HR. Very concerned with this expectation due to disruptions and impact to schedules. I’m hybrid now and am in the office 3 to 4 days per week, but while I have the occasional opportunity to drive home and continue taking my late afternoon and evening meeting from there (yeah, a 10 to 11 hr day is normal), having flex to have at least one full work day in home office is something I need.
Nope. Not refuted! Confirmed at VP level today.
it has been refuted.
This is not true, hybrid is staying at 3 days a week for non sales with no change to remote
make everyone go in 5 days a week or lay them off. Seems pretty easy to me. It' BS if they don't. Now you are punishing people and I can see discriminatory lawsuits coming out of all of this.
My leadership confirmed on Friday that if you are hybrid you will have to go into the office 5 days a week. They are still deciding what to do with the remote workers.
The irony is that I heard a lot of hybrid people complaining about remote. However, people being remote helped save you in a ‘hybrid role’. Now, there will be no hybrid and everyone can go in and enjoy the water cooler talks.
LOL..so what does hybrid mean now??? Sounds like fulltime
This is a sad reality. My manager told me to expect the announcement within next 2 weeks.
You gotta love the 'trust' this company has on it's people to do their job. I know alot of people that would work four days and maybe work from home on a Friday. I guess that will go away for those people that truly do work hard. It's a shame the company has lost faith in its people. The job market seems to be coming around a bit so good things may be coming for those that are desiring to get out. It would be nice to do it with a package.
“This is all hearsay, there has been no discussions about 5 days per week. People are speculating based on what other companies are doing.”
It is true. I have spoken to an SVP who informed me of this plan at least within ISG.
This is all hearsay, there has been no discussions about 5 days per week. People are speculating based on what other companies are doing.
Sadly, managers and directors aren’t always right and can lead people down the wrong path with decisions to not follow policy. Do you know any that were part of WFR?
Exactly.
My managers & director are still saying it doesn't matter. We are still being told we can just get an acception and not to worry about childcare or any of the issues that RTO brings.
If only the AI tracking activity by the minute did not exist.
No problem at all, this game can be played by both parties. I come to the office at 9am, unlock my locker, take my laptop, then, at 6pm I close my laptop, put it back into my locker and go home. No calls/meetings outside of working hours in the office.
I just wish that whatever they are planning, they’d just pull the bandaid off and announce it. Let us start planning for whatever is to come next. People have lives and need time do figure stuff out. Them giving sales one business day to figure out how to adjust from 3 to 5 days was absolute BS. If something larger is coming in February, they best announce it early January at the latest so we can plan for that. But every decision they’ve made as of late is more around pi----g us off than anything so I’m sure we’ll find out on January 28th.
There’s lots of chatter about ‘violating policy’ if you don’t adhere to the days they require. They’re starting to check up on this across the board. My suggestion is, if you want a job at Dell you follow whatever policy says regardless- your manager has NO SAY. If you’re looking to leave, take the risk. I am sure this will eventually be used as a layoff tool. And all they have to say is you didn’t follow policy. It’s not just a mandate, it’s policy.
@1oyn+1vCJ2Lox, it’s good to have a supportive boss, but then you don’t get the little green or blue flag in the HR system. Is it worth having that bad grade showing these days when it looks like they’re looking for reasons to reduce heads?
some manager's in Hopkinton are okay working however you want as long as things are getting done....no matter what the mandate is.
I wouldn't say he/she is a bootlicker. That's reality and goes for any non union job. For the employer, it's my way or the highway. *We can complain all we want and ask for changes, more money but we don't have a leg to stand on unless we join together. It will all fall on deaf ears because there is no organization from the employee side.
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LoL. Life of the perpetual bootlicker.
This is not rocket science people. He/ she is right. John wants you in the office, go to the office. You want all the benefits, go to the office. You want to be in line at a soup kitchen, don't go to the office. You want to file for unemployment, don't go to the office. No about of crying on a message board is going to change it. Find some pants that probably don't fit any longer and go to work already...you just had four years off!
@coq+1vCJ2Lox MD isnt gonna sleep with you even if you post this sh-t.
The benefits of driving to the office everyday (which would be a requirement of job) would be: keeping you job, collecting a paycheck, continued insurance coverage, matching 401k. Basically you would be a contributing member of society vs a dreg.
Heard they're planning on sending a global email for Q4
Whatever the news itself may be
More whining from the overweight covid remote/hybrids who haven't put in a 40 hr week in over four years.
So true!!! Well said man!!! If Elon was in charge Dell would have been appropriately slimmed down in no time!
How would that work logistically? Would hybrids (we’d obviously need to stop using that classification) get a permanent desk? Are there even enough desks? Would they add on site benefits back like the gym and so on? What about those that would have to scramble to get more daycare or make other lifestyle adjustments?? And what would be the benefit to me to now drive to an office 5 days a week (which was NEVER required or enforced pre covid) other than to potentially keep my job? I’m sure they’ll say we’d be eligible for promotions and such per the original 3 day in office mandate, but this is another level of expectation. And building badge readers don’t accurately capture badge in every time. Logistical pain.
More whining from the overweight covid remote/hybrids who haven't put in a 40 hr week in over four years. Here's the world's smallest violin playing just for you employees who've finally been caught stealing from the company.
Not true
Fu---n douchebags.
You wanna make a funny about weekend hybrid?
….Maybe its finally time you saw something really funny…
It's hybrid. You work in the office all day and then take your laptop home to join meetings in the evening also.
seriously? how is 5 days a week in office anything remotely like Hybrid work? That is just "on site" work, nothing hybrid about that! So folks are gunna go into the office, sit in some generic cube that won't even be assigned to them so they can have a little "home away from home" like we used to do, and then put a headset on and be on teams calls all day long with folks that are no where near them.
Maybe that's why they laid off all the folks that chose to remain remote....
and what's that about MSD joking that "weekends will be at home, so that makes it hybrid"? That's no joke, that's people's lives he's playing with just to get a tax break to fill his offices over 60% in the cities???
that is when I give the John Goodman FU factor
Place is a joke.
Should be no surprise as every other company is doing this.
What's hybrid about that? His little 'in' joke about working 5 days in office and weekend at home being 'hybrid' isn't as funny as he thinks it is
Are they going to offer VSP?
Yup. I know this to be true. MD and JC continue to tighten the sc--w