#remotework

There are plans for laying off the remote employees w/o poss relocation to HQ in December. They think it will be too messy to offer remote workers option to move.

These may get pushed back to Jan/Feb.

The board has been coming into the office several days a week even during the pandemic. This is not about productivity, it’s about satisfying an unfounded perception from the board that also meets the cut numbers they want for profitability.

did any remote workers get a notice about paying local taxes? If so can somone please explain what is going on please?

After signing the Severance Package (or even now) ... can we still apply for Unemployment benefits? If so when?

Another question, my State's unemployment site and other sites say you have to apply where you reside. They assume your employer is in the same state. It is complicated to apply for Unemployment as a remote worker if Vz office is in a different state?

There’s seems to be a lot of resentment here from some people with phrases like “adults go to work” and “covid is over” and “it’s your own fault that you moved to another state” and common sentiment is - get back to the office or get out. A lot of people seem to be unaware that remote work existed way before Covid. There are some companies who hired remote-only (look up Hashicorp). Remote work existed in Viacom too.
Most of what I’m hearing here is towards people who were in the office and then became remote due to COVID. Ok I get that. What beef do you have with me, someone who was hired remotely years before COVID, never lived anywhere near NY or LA, and commonly known as a local workaholic often working way over 8 hours a days, often working weekends etc? Where do I have to “return” to? I’m where I’ve always been. And I’m not going anywhere.

I continue to hear that all remote, even those with a medical accommodation will be laid off. No longer giving the ultimatum of, either go in, or accept your 60 day notice. I only know one medical accommodation this happened to recently, but I have to hope, that they are pointing to something performance?? Can they do that? Are they offering a chance of RTO first? Or just cleaning house on all remote?

How are you all maintaining 8 hrs in office ?
Staying 6 to 7 hrs is easily manageable to stay in office.
With early meetings, and again need to login at night to coordinate with offshore, maintaining 8 hrs is stretch.
Is it that mandatory to maintain 8 hrs or 6 to 7 hrs is acceptable?

So my dept was job completed/lay off while I was on vacation. I RTO to my office which I’m by myself and remote from everyone else. My boss and 2 other remote coworkers who I only conversed with over email were let go. I never got notified and nothing in company mail. I came back from work and worked like normal and learned over the next several days what happened. I didn’t reach out. All my logins work, I get automatic generated tickets to review then send off. Everything is still working and I can continue and have been continued to do my duties. I’ve done this already for the past several weeks and even got paid.

Should I reach out my 3rd line or just lay low and keep working? In webphone I am also NOW listed under my 3rd line when before I was under my manager and my coworkers.

Been hearing a lot of chatter of another wave of layoffs coming within the next few months. Figure the 5 days back in office is them hope people will voluntarily leave. Been hearing a lot of scrutiny towards remote workers that are outside the rto office mileage.

Hard to focus on the job on hand, and not looking for employment elsewhere. So much red tape you kinda feel like you are handcuffed and just waiting for the hammer.

Anyone else hear anything about another wave?

I know VH has one foot out the door, but it was definitely disappointing to hear the shift from earlier conversations where he said they were amplifying our concerns about RTO (and even had an internal task force working on possible solutions/compromises) to a resigned attitude of defeat as in “ it is what it is, the company is changing.”

And before all the naysayers jump in to complain that people don’t want to work, please respectfully keep that opinion to yourself. The company has built a great culture on remote work and been very successful. I have zero problem working, I just don’t see the need to do it in a specific location.

With all the changes the new leadership over P & C claims are implementing across all of p&c they will never get these claim jobs moved into the hubs. Not Injury, not TL, not fire, not Sub, not Property. There is to much for new hires to learn and retain, they will not stay. What we have in the hubs now cannot do the work. We will work from home forever or until they make us miserable enough to quit.

Just wondering if there is any consistency across the organization. Is your manager in the office?

encourage people to push back on the RTO. I took some time this week and wrote letters to the board and upper management. I stated why I think RTO is not the right move and provided evidence proving that remote work is better for the company and employee in the long run.

They might not care about one letter but I think we all should be giving this feedback. Be factual but also explain how it is affecting your life negatively.

Emails are easy to ignore but tons of letters arriving to corporate will get noticed.

Ron is interim so maybe if we all show our displeasure we can get some changes made.

We have to go beyond complaining to other another and our immediate supervisor.

If anyone is interested I would be happy to share the studies I submitted.

I could be delusional but what could we lose?

Our manager is making us come in, seems ruthless. I’d like to have the option of sobbing in the privacy of my own home. For the love of god, what is the obsession with being in the office. Give us our dignity during such a high stress time.

I am hearing of remote directors being told to begin reporting to hubs. I checked my own director in the directory and they are now reclassified as working out of a hub. Anyone else noticing a change in remote to hub status?

My manager just advised our team to WFH the rest of the week (but we’re not required to if we want to go into the office). Our team is scattered across NJ and TX locations. Good luck everyone.

My original assumption is that fully remote workers are going to get laid off soon since this guy is adamant about enforcing full RTO. But who knows these days..

Multiple teams n same building told 2 work from home while otha teams n building aren’t being told that.

What does that mean?

Anyone being told to stay home and not report to the office ?

Currently working Hybrid and been told that Thursday is remote day while Tuesday and Wednesday are office days.

Def not a coincidence even if they want to frame it as early thanksgiving break.

Were any other locations told to WFH this week?

Has anyone heard about customer care?

“You don’t have to come in, you can work remote through thanksgiving”

What about the 5 dollar burger special on Thursday??

https://healthpoint.com/technology/why-is-unitedhealthcare-cutting-remote-monitoring-coverage/

Any chances that those who are in an office are safer than remote workers?

Seems like there is an RTO push, so maybe remote will get hit harder?

Are leaders gonna encourage their teams to work from home Thursday…just to enable the people who are impacted to save face? Not have to get “that” call right in the middle of all their co-workers?

engineers safe, only overheads being axed.
what about remote?

Even the plumbing gods hate RTO. El Segundo office closed today due to no running water. Hopefully the rain expected this weekend will make for a nice long, slow repair process. Doubt it but it would be nice. Great to be to work without distractions and a pointless commute even if it’s only for a day or two.

Total team size: 25 (80% remote)
# of Directors: 4 (100% remote)
# of Leads: 16 (75% remote)
Other: 5

Out of the 21 analysts, 16 are Leads (76%)

Can we please promote the other 5 of us to Lead and make us Remote too?

Pre covid office was 5 days, so I don’t think it’s new rule. As well it’s too hard to communicate with remote people, sometimes responses are super slow and confusing.

Just saw Truist is calling back all employees to 5 days a week. It’s getting harder and harder to find flexible work options https://www.bankingdive.com/news/truist-rto-employees-in-office-5-days-banking/805291/

When is CSO going to 5 days a week? CSO is Atl still on 3 days a week.

Let’s start this thread for further discussions, cheers

Medtronic took outside investment for structural heart R&D, and now structural heart is of hundreds of millions of dollars in the hole, with every product delayed, mired in incompetent leadership From Nina down to directors. Nina, who works remote, brought in a VP, Sunny Kankanala, who works remote, filled with engineers that all have "collaboration days". This seems a poor way to innovate.

WFH works for me so much better, but, hey - what to do.

If you’re still classified as a virtual worker, you’re in the crosshairs. Notices are starting to go out that NVWs will be required to “follow the work” and RTO full-time in Dallas, Atlanta, or New Jersey depending on org. My source says the plan is to eliminate all remaining virtual roles before year-end with any remaining to move and RTO by June 2026 or terminate.

Don’t assume you’re safe, they’ve already pushed out some of the best and most experienced people here. Titles and “essential” status won’t save anyone. This is your warning since the company won’t give you one.

CVS Health to lay off 70 remote employees living in Ohio

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/cvs-health-to-lay-off-70-remote-employees-living-in-ohio/ar-AA1PL2D7?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Got an email about this being installed on computers. We are WFH. Any idea what it actually does? The email was obviously low key but reading between lines seems like it will make sure you're actually doing stuff on your PC? I have no idea really. Sometimes we have downtime at my role, does this mean if I'm not doing something productive like idk reading notes or work files, I'll get in trouble if I step away from PC for a bit?

L3Harris is laying off elderly and remote employees, giving them cash payment to not pursue a law suit.

I was just told today I'm being let go effective immediately. I've been working in Rochester (SAS) for 4-years. No performance issues, but classified as a remote employee. Is this a one-off, or are there others being targeted?