I have a meeting with HR tomorrow and I don't know why. All my stats are good, meets+ for sure. Any advice?

Ok, so I've heard the big conspiracy is that Big R will be out in 5 years and daughter Schwab is going to swoop in and save the company, again. What totally wild rumor have you heard?

Why would they close the cafe at 2, like so many employees don't work after 2pm.

Victim of consolidation 2 years ago. What’s been in happening in STL since then? What are long term plans?

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/ Need to get rid of the whole program since there is no longer a shortage of American tech workers.

I'm hearing rumblings of a new larger layoff coming up next month. Does anyone have any idea of what business segments will be impacted? Joel Osteen aka Rick seems to be channeling his McKinsey lessons from the get go

This used to be an amazing place to work. Now, you can feel the fear every day. People whisper, avoid eye contact, and no one wants to stick their neck out. It’s exhausting just being around it. I think full RTO would cause me to quit just so I can... — read more 

I was laid off a couple years ago from at Schwab. And I admit that at the time I was pretty worried about my future and aLeo angry at the sleezy shenanigans that went down in my management chain that got me on the list. But you know what? It... — read more 

Job Hopping Is Out, Job Hugging Is In for Fearful Workers Employees reluctant to give up job in today’s rocky job market Callum Borchers Sept. 3, 2025 9:00 pm ET They don’t seem happy, they don’t give 100%—and they don’t quit. Cranky workers are... — read more 

Do you know anyone who actually followed through on their threats to quit over it? I personally don’t, but I wonder if even a small bump in attrition happened because of it, or if most of us just decided to go along with it.

Should we worry about tomorrow?

There were layoffs today. Making a thread to discuss.

Someone wrote a really great poem as a response to a post here. That got me thinking, what if we have a Schwab Haiku contest? Who's in? Here's my entry: Schwab's strength in numbers, Guiding clients through life's summers, Investments thrive.

I was forced back to the office and I’m doing my best to comply, even though the commute is barely manageable. From how RTO was rolled out and is being managed, it feels like leadership hoped people affected would be the first to bail. But most of... — read more 

Anyone else expecting layoffs after the India office is made? I’m sure they want to hire them more since it’s cheaper.

People are dragging themselves in, barely speaking, and you can feel the frustration in every meeting. Everybody hates being there. If leadership keeps ignoring it, I don’t see how the company makes it long term. Low morale always comes back to bite... — read more 

Dismal Jobs Report and Schwab Stock price down by ~5-6%. Are we seeing Rick’s cost cutting approach backfiring or strategic? Will possible Fed. rate cut even matter?

Is there a way to give real feedback on leaders without it being tracked back to us like an anonymous email server to the firm somehow? Feel like we are going to be in a bad spot if we can’t speak freely about what we witness and life will never get... — read more 

Every single one with each person sitting at their desk bored out of their minds. Can we admit RTO only makes sense if everyone moved to Westlake?

and you can do much better. Go work at a company that actually values their employees.

Hi all. I would appreciate helpful and constructive criticism, not bullying as I have seen in some posts here. We can all remain civil while being in disagreement. I worry about layoffs and this is my first corporate job. Does Charles Schwab always... — read more 

We are hearing Schwab is planning another round of Layoffs by Year end, is there some truth to it ? We know two major Orgs have Merged AST and WAM, not sure if it’s limited to it.

Who else strongly feel that company HQ should fix their entrance + parking chaos first before calling more professionals back to office? The single 2-lane entrance the is crossed by walking construction workers is frustrating/dangerous in the... — read more 

Who else strongly feel that company HQ should fix their entrance + parking chaos first before calling MORE professionals back to office? The single 2-lane entrance the is crossed by walking construction workers is frustrating/dangerous in the... — read more 

Somebody I know had an offer pulled by Schwab a week after he accepted it, no proper reason provided. Does anybody know why this could have happened?

Posts here get hundreds of views. Social media statistics indicate only 3% engagement. (Of 100 viewers there's 3 commenters) And then there are comments deleted "magically". I don't have a point. Just acknowledging the engagement and concern. I see... — read more 

There’s been some chatter about internal roles being posted with a ‘preferred candidate’ allegedly already in mind. Supposedly, certain leaders have a reputation for giving opportunities to people in their inner circle, and many employees feel it... — read more 

I stopped putting in extra effort a while ago. I just do my work and unplug, no more doing anything late. Whatever happens next, I’m ready to move on. The way things are going, it feels like we’re all just waiting our turn.

Do we have anything new on what might be coming our way?

I heard they were ditching it and instead going to give us $2500/$5000 on Jan 1 to put towards purchasing health insurance from the state exchange. I went in the web to see how much that would cost and it's over $1800/ mo so that's not even 3 mos... — read more 

https://www.aboutschwab.com/leadership Look at all those smiling faces!! Happy, rich & convinced they work harder & deserve more than everyone else! So proud & accomplished as they send out surveys to support planned pay cuts for everyone but... — read more 

Round table w director after Q4 business update. Few months in advance so what could this mean?

Schwawesome Leaders, Where is the efficiency gained by AI? Whose head should roll?

It was a long Monday. Everyone can do what they want, but don't complete surveys. They’re seeking legitimacy for pre-planned actions. The only survey should be work output. That’s the bottom line.

Over under on October layoffs?

This newest survey is definitely a temperature check to figure out the easiest way to bend us over and take away our benefits. Give them NOTHING to go off of. They're trying to cut our pay increases by 50% to give us 5 extra days off. How is that... — read more 

Austin schwabbie here. Went through my third interview for an internal position recently and this morning got a call from the hr specialist asking if I'd be willing to move to Westlake or another campus. She said the position can't be in Austin... — read more 

Why is the government rewarding corporations like Schwab who are anti-American? They get huge tax breaks for offshoring jobs, abusing the H1B system, and now eliminating jobs due to AI. To me instead of placing tariffs on countries, the government... — read more 

The guy by me comes in, spends 1-2 hours in the office and leaves again. Stuff like this is going to ruin it for everyone. It’s played out like that before, remember Walt having a conniption fit about not doing what you say you’ll do, then making... — read more 

There’s way more questions now on this updated form than the one from 2023. Does anybody know who reads these forms? I feel weird knowing someone else who doesn’t know what we go through gets to decide if the condition sounds bad enough or not.