Thread regarding Fiserv Inc. layoffs

I couldn't agree more! And sorry Im one of the 2nd class citizens left that are still remote. I will not be going back to an office when my marching orders are served!

Hey gender equality, isn't it? Equal pay equal work. I am not supporting Fiserv's babysitting style policies, but if it applies, it applies to everyone regardless of gender. If you want more flexibility then do not take on the roles that requires more of your focus on the job.

@kkz+1w0A2H3F I have no doubt that your views are reflective of the MC’s but it’s wilful ignorance of facts. You can’t point at a handful of women and say because they made it work it’s proof that there is no issue. Traditional office practices were designed before 2 parent working families became a reality. Women are graduating at higher levels, are well represented in early careers but are less well represented in senior levels. This is largely due to mothers opting out of the workforce because they can’t make it work or realizing a career penalty for seeking flexible accommodations.

Remote and hybrid practices established during the pandemic have been the most impactful change in decades to level the playing field for women. There is plentiful evidence that women’s workforce participation increased during the pandemic and that retention rates for mothers have improved. Now the mindset of the leadership in this place will be primed to think that women are at home multitasking and caring for kids when they are meant to be working. The reason the arrangement actually works is:

• no commute means there is better ability to work around day care hours. Try putting in a 9 hour day when you have a 1 hour commute each way and the crèche opens from 8-6.
• more likely to be able to join meetings or respond to priority issues out of hours as not tied to a location
• benefit from partners remote/hybrid arrangements with sharing of responsibilities (Fiserv’s policy are not just bad for staff. They are bad for husbands, wife’s and partners)
• less likely to need special accommodations so less likely to be seen as ‘someone whose career is not their priority’ and as a result less likely to be affected by bias in performance or promotion reviews
• flexibility to use lunch hour to run local errands that would otherwise take up valuable time in the evenings/weekends
• for older children that don’t require much supervision ability to save money on afterschool care that they have outgrown anyway

The policies are more anti parents than specifically anti women but women tend to be impacted more on average when parents need to choose whose career to prioritize. Fiserv needs to stop celebrating its DEI efforts when it’s turning its back on the one thing that is proven to make a difference

I hate the f**ks that are trying to re-write history that it was never 9-5 and was always 8-5 or 9-6 because “lunch doesn’t count”. It was always 9-5 and that used to include a lunch.

Feel bad for the young ones that have no real world history to go by.

The 9-hr in office rule (with 1 hr for lunch) was common BEFORE laptops got issued company-wide & remote access was available. So the only way you could do work was to be in the office. Once those things came into place, there was always the option to talk with your manager if you needed to wfh and some people had modified schedules if they were working with offshore resources.

So stop acting like 9-hr in-office work days are "the norm" - they are not. But even then the issue is one of flexibility, of which we have none.

So essentially, if they want us to go back to the 90's then fine. No work needs to be done outside of the office.

You need to su-k a fu-k since you’re such a yes man. I hope you get paid the big bucks since you’re such a boot li---r. If you don’t get paid the big bucks, then you’re a fu--ing id--t.

I remember behind hired as 9 - 5 and if you eat during your lunch so you can take care of other life responsibilities that day, it could be 9 - 4:30 or so.

Thanks for your input Frank. Maybe you and your goons need to rethink your definition of work life balance

A full time manager job is 8 - 5 in the office with an hour lunch - and some days it is difficult to get this lunch break. Choosing to accept an exempt position you should understand that a lunch break doesn't always happen. Although at Fiserv it seems to happen all to often that meetings or excessive work causes there to not be enough time for a lunch. Not sure why the complaining here and what being a woman has to do with working these hours. It has been this way for a very long time. Many women have been able to successfully work in the office 9 hours (sometimes more) and also have commute times placing them away from home and family sometimes 10 hours a day as a result. This is your choice to want this level role with those responsibilities.

They never intended it to be