Has anyone else been 'disrespectful' of the WFH policy? It's not that I don't appreciate my job, it's that I'm smart enough to realize I do a better job from home. So if they fire me for doing my job well (from home), then I feel it's their loss, not mine. Just curious if I'm the only one, since I've heard this policy is not strictly enforced anymore.
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This thread has gone cold. Hopefully just a bad rumor. I'm staying out. I'd never return to The Valley.
That's the thing. I don't know if aero wide or just E&PS. Nothing in policy or written yet.
So I was assigned Phx. Engines, moved to east coast working at a sensor div. now I'll have to return to Phx site?
Where's the memo/email directing this?
Early retirement fir me.
Could mean future spin off in the work for aerospace then.
I'm at s HBS site that is staying Honeywell, I've been notified that I will have to come back by EOY.
Is this more for people who are located in HBT site as they ate getting spun off?
In aero remote employees that are working at nearest Honeywell site, have to come back to original assigned aero site by end of year.
I got around this rule by NEVER working a single moment from home. Never again. Also I do as little as possible when I'm in the office. Dave Cote can eat a gaint bowl of d---s along with my a--.
You guys need to stop working in fear like a bunch of corporate slaves. Who gives a sh-- about working from home as long as you get the job done.
At sites where direct charge employees log time, managers are required to audit staff regularly on charged time vs. gate entry and exit. All the FSLA training I have ever had states clearly that exempt salaried employees are to be paid a flat salary for their work, doesn't matter if it takes 1 hr/week or 100. Also, exempt salaried employees are not REQUIRED to fill out time cards or be docked for <40 hours in a given week. Yet Honeywell gets around this for by requiring time logging for "job costing" purposes, then manages to mete out punishment like they are hourly (i.e. firing for "time card fraud"), but yet not pay OT. And yes, I understand all the CAS-compliance rules, but it seems like they cut people both ways. Awful place, so glad to be gone.
As long as you are aware that you are violating policy and such violation is terminable.
I do know that there are sites where WFH activity is monitored, and people have been contacted by HR inquiring as to why they were working remotely.
Yep, you'd better go into the office or you'll get let go for non-compliance. And yes, others will rat you out. They are obviously not managing it though because anyone with a boss located outside this office, works from home still. Two different sets of standards in play right now.
its a good example of poor leadership at Honeywell. They implement a process in 2016 however they cant control it. They introduced an exception process however some people applied for it, others didnt. Now loads of people just WFH
My department management is very much in the "don't ask, don't tell" mode, and I try to respect it. I travel enough that no one expects me to be in my cube, besides which no one I work with regularly is in the same building I occupy, and most of them are 15 miles away, or on the other side of the country, or in Mexico, or in Puerto Rico, or in the Czech Republic. Co-location as Honeywell interprets it.
Go ahead
give it a try
although they are looking for any reason to shed headcount
in the meantime, find another job before the next RIF hits . . .
Maybe OP works in HR, trying to hit quota?
WMR - totally agree and was thinking the same thing. OP is a real a-h0le. D1p5h1ts like OP are probably the reason it was stopped in the first place.
Nice going genius. great work putting it back on the radar and probably costing even more people their jobs even faster.
d--k!
OP, what a stupid post. No doubt a corporate minion will read this and HR will be told to find any violators. Many hours will be wasted while trying to "out" any offenders. Nice job in screwing over your coworkers.
In our office we still have assigned cubes and offices. And they are probably 25% empty. Tons of people are now ignoring it all the time. 100% of the time. A few are my friends and they are so confident in being able to find a job they don't care. If they get RIFd or fired they will just move on. I still work with them and they get more done and stil quickly help me so I don't really care. They were on a different floor anyway so I was using Skype to reach them when they did come in. So who cares. Just poor leadership cares.....
I work in the office and used to work at home almost exclusively. The office is significantly less efficient. I don't work as many hours due to the commute time And while I try to be polite being in the office is very social so a lot less work per day just talking about the kids, weekend events, cuts in company benefits etc. it's DA's choice so I don't really mind. I do a good job and just leave at the end of the day. It's improved my quality of life since I don't work until 6pm any more and it's given me more free time. Wear and tear on the car and spending on gas s---s but overall it's improved my quality of life by reducing overtime and weekend work to zero since I leave my laptop in the trunk of my car when I leave the office
It really depends on your manager as some of them work from home as well, but be very careful. I’ve heard they do do audits on your IP address and it puts a huge target on you. Why not look for a company that actually has a work from home policy.? With the movement to hubs, this isn’t going to be tolerated anymore at Honeywell, even on a casual basis.
I'm glad someone feels confident enough to break the rules, but you must not work with anyone at your site, or they would have ratted you out by now! HON employees are bitter and vindictive (and pathetic) because of their treatment by leadership! Many people are gone through RIFs because of this.