HR are doing the rounds and 'interviewing' people about working from home.
"Complaints" and "Concerns" have been logged.
It's just a matter of time before WFH is pulled.
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Policy effective date is Oct 31, 2016
Time to sell up your Honeywell shares cos this business is now doomed. Looks like this decision will finally switch off all loyalty from the majority of us dedicated to long hours which home working enabled us to do.
Any confirmed updates to this info?
Cube has 6 faces , fits 6 people.
Ok but perseption by Cote was lots of empty cubes. To Dave that means $$$$ he's paying for not being used. Ask Redmond where that hit them. They gave back one of the leased bldg and crammed everyone in smaller cubes.
No matter who failed to explain reality, it's still the same result.
It's happening everywhere no just Florida
Honeywell is going to consolidate ALL Aero sites including AZ locations no site us excluded.
Diva Dave?
Allow me to correct a few things about the famous "Florida" incident.
Dave Cote arrived in Sarasota at exactly 4:57PM on Friday. He was wearing casual clothes and it appeared he merely stopped by to establish a business purpose for his personal trip to Sarasota. His aircraft was in Sarasota all morning, so he wasn't there to see his SRQ site.
When he arrived, many people had left for the day. There was a customer visit which began at 7AM and most people left by 4PM. Only three people were working from home - a program manager in California, two engineers who were working for home for a specific purpose that specific day.
Dave remarked about all the empty cubes he saw - and it was a huge number. However, the rather new manager who was hastily summoned to give Dave a tour did not explain that 99% of those cubes were empty because of previous RIFs or when we moved our manufacturing offshore. He was caught off-guard and stated that many people were working from home.
It is understandable that he fumbled the ball - Dave was upset because the front desk guard did not know who he was, upset that he had to perform the mandated FOD training, and did not have a higher level manager to greet him. More than once, he pulled the "do you know who I am" card.
So, to clarify, our current woes involving "work from home" is not because Sarasota had so many people doing this (only three, remember?) - it was because the true reason for having a nearly empty cube farm was not conveyed to him.
Currently I'm working between 10-12 hours from home. If I'm forced to come into the office everyday, those hours will turn into 7-8 hours. There is no value in coming into the site everyday. It wastes time, gas, and money. Maybe I'll be in the office 8 hours but only work 5 of them. Who knows. I need to find a company who is operating in the 21st century so I can tell Dave to s--- my a$$.
We all know there are few people that WFH taking advantage and ruined it for the rest of us!!!
Smaller cubes, no personal space, call centers for private areas to take/send calls (a closet), no assigned seating and lockers to store personal things.
Cote saw WFH as a problem in Florida followed by a managers survey asking how many WFH. BS hates Engr, WFH so if you're not already approved by HR, I'm thinking everyone will return to a smaller cube and work at a site even if not assigned to that site.
The hr eventually comes up with an idea under the direction of HLT - Honeywell leadership team. Every work at home employees is going to be issued a GPS leg bracelet so the company can know whereabout of us at any time.
Going to be a major problem at sites where there is not enough space to accomodate employees. In Redmond, there are a LOT of those that WFH and they are shedding a bldg and trying to cram those folks into one bldg. If this policy enacted, may end up with 3-4 to a cube!
All of these years working from home was encouraged, now it's a problem. I guess anything to demoralize workforce even further.
Working from home is not for everyone. Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, took that option away. Sarcasm on: It worked well for Yahoo. Sarcasm: off.
Is it just for a specific division or across the corporation?