#rto

Have you heard any locations or organizations that are only required to come in 1 or 2 days a week? Shout them out so those of us that are required to do 3 can look for job openings.

To be announced to certain groups on Friday.

Constantly new changes, every few weeks there’s another round of layoffs, now this RTO cr-p... You start to wonder if it’ll ever stop. Most of us are exhausted and anxious, and are just waiting for the next announcement. That can't be good for productivity, not at all.

Just got out of a meeting with a couple members of leadership. Announcement to come towards the end of October.

It's disrespectful to both the remote workers and those of us who need the desk space. Remote is remote, we allocate and budget the space for a reason ffs.

Hard to stay engaged with so many changes looming.

random team meeting scheduled for next week, no context given. curious if anyone has heard rumors

Are we ready to call RTO a failure and change course? Or do we need to see new lows for the year first?

Sell all the real estate and make wall st happy

The chatter is escalating. Is there actually something to it, or is it just based on reasonable expectations?

I appreciate people sharing what they’ve heard but this is all so vague I’m really struggling to understand how valid this is. Is it RTO for remote? Is it layoffs like in 2015? Has anyone actually been told anything or is this just phone tag at its worst.

Some questions about NewTown Square

Do colleagues still go into the office?
What is the vibe/scene like?
Are customer events still taking place?

Is Cafeteria still very good?

I haven't been there since leaving in 2019 and was curious about the campus.
Always remembered very friendly front desk staff and security guards

Wishing everyone the best

To get people to quit at first, then fire the rest that don’t follow the rules.

Took a new role in CSO based in Charlotte. Anyone here work in CSO? How is that part of the org? Anyone in Charlotte? My understanding is it’s a CSO hub (or rather is becoming one). I understand lots of things are changing, and there’s a lot of frustration around RTO but other than that trying to get a feel for the CSO area.

I haven’t. And God knows what that means. Judging from the rumors, relocation offers seem to be just an easy, cost-free way to push people out in most cases. I mean, who would uproot their life for a job when job security is practically an ancient concept? I really hope this gets clarified soon. Honestly, I’d rather face losing the job than deal with this confusion and anxiety dragging on.

That’s all.

Seems like that’s the plan

https://fortune.com/2025/10/09/in-office-mandates-new-hires-employers-are-sneaking-in-a-hybrid-creep-after-your-offer-letter/?utm_content=socialShare_null&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=social_share

what's your department like? Any word of 4-5x/week back in office?

they are going to ask employees to shift near to the office staring march 2026 ?

I can only imagine many others are in an even worse predicament than I am. And for what? RTO has been rolled out across the country for quite a while now, and there’s plenty of data showing that none of the things they talk about, like collaboration or efficiency, actually improve by herding us back into the office. The only explanation is that they want to make a lot of us quit.

India of course, where else.

Meanwhile in US, we continue to shed. That’s what happens when you don’t like coming back to office. Still empty offices, folks pretending to be “working” from home.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/analytics-india-magazine_bengaluru-is-now-home-to-chevron-indias-activity-7382290414483128320

Finished another week some how. State Farm is just a horrible excuse for an employer and represents all that is wrong with corporate America. For my first 15 years at State Farm I can honestly say I looked forward to going to work just about every single day. These last 10 years have been an absolute clown show. I thought it was bad but it is accelerating at an alarming rate. Everything they do sets you up to fail and ultimately sc--ws the customer over. I'm embarrassed most days to go into work. If we didn't have soo much money State Farm would be out of business within the decade. Please let it be known that 2026 will be the year of a huge exodus (voluntarily and involuntarily) for most people at State Farm. They are trying to get as many people to quit over stress leave. Horrible changes are coming at every turn from the pension, time off, health care benefits, return to work mandates and more unadulterated pressure. They are too cowardly to treat people appropriately and will just continue to destroy lives and careers. There is a special place in h-ll for these people making these decisions. Sold their souls to the devil. Run away as fast as you can, it gets worse!

No, Absolutely not. If I have to drag my tired butt into the office for eight hours, I will not be wasting my lunch time learning anything related to Wells Fargo. I will also not let people schedule meetings with me for eight hours straight. No way. I will be blocking time out for me and my mental health.

I get that many employees just don't care any more. Fraud at ATT used to be something you would hear about through the grapevine. Now employees put little effort into hiding it.

September 13th we went to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. I saw an ATT car in the parking lot and the woman driving was loading 4 children and some muddy digging tools and buckets. All of them were muddy from digging in the Park. Presses the boundaries of personal use.

A guy from another team sits near me boasting about using 6-8 full days each month for Caregiver time so they don't have to pay for childcare. Not working from home, just taking a free day and not logging it.

A guy on my team had hip surgery about 3 years ago. I've never seen him at work more than 3 days in a row in the past 2 years. Not gone to a medical appointment for a couple hours or working Remote, just out of office.

How is this possible? We've seen too many good people be let go. Are there no more checks and balances? Has anyone else noticed an increase fraudulent behavior?

Looks like The Barn staff count is down to 372 ppl on Workday. Anyone here recently laid off from hillsboro?

Does Fiserv require 5 days a week in the office ?

It was not completely egregioius. There was only one significant error in one day that shorted me about 2 hours. Why is it that every error is in AT&T's favor. The system never over-estimates our time in the office.

My manager is full remote and has no issues tell us how nice it is for himself and his family He's able to get to all his son's games. Able to start weekends early. Able to take cae of family tasks on his schedule. How long is this going to go on while we doing the work forced in the office have non of this?

For the same job role in the same group, some are remote, and some are required 4 full days.

When a company focuses on badge swipes/RTO mandate, instead of employee productivity and project/work outcomes, they are doomed to be left with robot employees that offer no loyalty, no creativity, no passion, and no team spirit. Best of luck Ford. Merge with another company that knows how to treat their employees, before it's too late!

I don’t understand how any of you would comply with such an outrageous request.
I am not going to sell my house to move to be closer to an office. I am hours away from any real office.
This job isn’t that important to me. It never will be. And I don’t know why it is to you.
What really keeps you here? I rather take a few thousand pay cut and be happy elsewhere.
I will not be working in an office. I don’t care if my coworkers are or even my superior.
I won’t be doing it and I’ll laugh at anyone who thinks I will.
I would ask yourself why this job is that important to you that you would upheave your routine and life for uhg. They don’t give a f about you or your family, probably don’t pay you enough, and wouldn’t care if you ended up in the hospital tomorrow.
Just think about it.

What is going on for construction over at BAT? Teams are moving there on Monday yet half of the building is still closed. Can someone shed some light on what is ACTUALLY going on?

Not sure why they are cramming everyone into a building that isn’t finished, yet departments at the AUR building were told to WFH for the next 3 weeks.

Why is it that the 5G Engineering and Technology team gets to stay remote in Washington when the rest of us need to work in Philly? They don't even have an office to report to there. Is it because they have an AVP that is also privileged and gets to work from home in Washington?

Talked to a Director today. They are requesting that directors are in the office on Mon & Tue (w/o 10/20). It's mandatory. Well know about layoffs after those meetings as I am sure it'll leak here (it did last time). It's so exausting to wait for things like this as I feel powerless and there is nothing I can do, you do good work and you can still be axed. I guess that is what capitalism and free market requires and I get it, but on a personal level it's just hard.

Ah, the newest corporate gospel has arrived. Another “inspirational” RTO email reminding us that being in the office builds connection — which is ironic, considering I haven’t connected to anyone except the guy who keeps stealing my chair.

Leadership preaches “collaboration,” but what they really mean is: we signed leases, now fill the seats.
They’ve got family photos, doors, and flexible calendars; we’ve got assigned burnout.

The new buzzword of the week? “Ten toes down.” Cute. I guess that’s easy to say when your toes aren’t in traffic for two hours a day.

Every line of these emails reads like it was generated by a bot trained on stale HR slogans. “Culture!” “Teamwork!” “Innovation!” — all while the rest of us are juggling hot desks, dropped calls, and existential dread.

If they actually believed in teamwork, they’d try working by the same rules they force on everyone else.
Until then, spare us the sermons and just call it what it is: office rent recovery.

Our host today is none other than the '5 o'clock shadow', and today’s question is:

What makes me excited to come to work at BNY every day?

Survey says…
The PEOPLE! (ding, ding, ding . . . great answer!)

Yes, the same people who’ve been driving our culture, transforming our engine, and—plot twist—being systematically offboarded to optimize shareholder value!

Because nothing says “culture” like a quarterly spreadsheet of headcount reductions and a celebratory bell ring when the stock ticks up 0.3%.

Culture now comes with 4 daily badge swipes per week, 54 hours of required new training, and a ghoulish labyrinth-style corn maze set up to ensure your non-compliance with HR and BNY Training policy requirements. Can you say: "NO SEVERANCE FOR YOU!"

Let’s break it down:

• People drive our culture.
  -- Especially the ones who remain after the reorg, the re-reorg, and the “strategic realignment.” Survivors of the Hunger Games: Finance Edition.

• Culture is the engine behind our transformation.
  -- And like any good engine, it runs lean, burns out occasionally, and is replaced every fiscal year with a cheaper offshore model.

• Transformation is our purpose.
  -- Which explains why every team meeting feels like a live-action episode of “Who Moved My Org Chart?”

So yes, I come to work excited—excited to see which department has been renamed, which colleague has vanished mid-email thread, and which new acronym we’ll pretend to understand until it’s sunset in Q2.

Because at BNY, we don’t just value people...

We VALUE them, DEPRECIATE them, and then WRITE THEM OFF — all in the name of transformation — VVV style.

So for all you kiddos out there young and old ... Trick or Treat and Happy Halloween!!!