The CLW visit was unannounced. Cote needed to justify his use of the company plane for his vacation and stopping in to CLW was convenient. He wasn't in the building for more than 30 minutes
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Guys, stop complaining. Companies that ban telecommuting are leaders in profitability and employee satisfaction. I mean, the club now includes Yahoo!, Honeywell,... All very successful!
Oh man this is gonna be fun watching all the schit hit the fan. Just wait till customers find out we arent funding all the initiatives we promised them we were! Hahaha I'm almost giddy thinking about it. Tim phoney baloney mahoney is smart to leave at the end of the year. He knows the jig is up! Whomever takes his place is going to be stepping into a giant, unrecoverable schitstorm. I plan on volunteering for the RIF in Jan so I might not get to see the final death throes.
Why TF would you work from home when the CEO is visiting? Why TF would local leadership allow that? This is on clearwater's hands.
Great way to go Honeywell, there is not a single path for success but there is one for failure and you are certainly achieving it. Keep demoralizing employees. The only legacy you are giving next generation is of the bad example of what NOT to do when doing business. Honeywell's name will be part of a book study case for how to achieve failure in such short time. Face to face interaction has nothing to do with effective business desicions. Implementing redundant policies does, lack of training does, spending 6 hours daily on meetings does.
Honeywell just went full retard with this. You never go full f---ing retard.....
So now coordinating with china, India, Malaysia, and all the other sites will be done strictly by email cutting efficiency by 200%. Congratulations idiots, you changed a major policy with no idea to the negative implications this will have.
The same announcement just came out for HBT today. It looks like this is a company wide change. This should do wonders for productivity. But there is the up-side to work/life balance as we all start to decline early morning and late evening phone calls with India and China!
I have early morning calls with multiple foreign countries and a time that works for everyone is 6:30am. My commute to the office is only 20 minutes, but I worry about the people in the foreign countries as they usually call in from home as it could be 7pm in India at that time. Most meetings are held on Skype now (or have a Skype option) because sometimes it is a pain finding an open conference room and people work for Honeywell around the world.
I don't think this is coming from Tim. Sounds like this is coming from Dave. Someone posted on this site about an incident that happened at the Clearwater Site when Dave visited in which he asked about all the empty cubes and was told many were WFH. Either way it's just another great morale booster!
Forcing people to quit costs less than RIFs. As ive been saying for months, AERO is in a death spiral and our "leaders" are doing it on purpose. They must have an agenda in mind and tanking the company is the 1st step. It's embarrassing to admit I work here to friends and family.
Poor Dave got his feelings hurt in Florida
I have a full virtual team in India. I am in meetings sometimes at midnight and again at 5 am. That will stop right away as I live a minimum 90 minute commute from the Honeywell I am linked to- even though not one person there works with me.
This is insane. Every major company had WFH employees! Saved the company money as well, plus they usually get more work out of us! I know my normal 12 hour work day will now drop to 8.
I would think they are trying to force people to quit but in the process they are killing the company. Plus any decent new hires are going to say a big F-U.
Ugh
Not just Aero
Time to issue an employee policy. "Effective Immediately. Employees will no longer work extended hours beyond their allotted 8 hours (especially salaried employees who are not allowed overtime). Employees will no longer take their laptops home to accommodate meetings with overseas employees or customers. These changes will be in more compliance to all applicable laws than the Company's Remote Working Policy. This policy will also support the Cote/Mahoney initiative to drive Aerospace into the ground, make morale lower so employees will quit, and therefore will show potential investors a false impression that Honeywell's overhead is low (due to lack of employees)."
what cost savings? More rent, utilities, pollution
Well this adds to those cost saving measures...