Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

Wow, empowering managers through discretion and judgment. What a novel concept. Perhaps HR could learn something here.

@gw if my team was in my hub, it'd probably be somewhat better.

But we're not so I'm still working remotely from an office. I don't mind it and like the routine and change of scenery. But not when I have to figure out how to get my days in when I've been sick, or we've had awful winter weather and I have to figure out how to meet some arbitrary percentage that seems to be the most important part of my performance metric at this point.

' When I characterized it as commuting to the office to work remotely from the office, the Wells employee replied: "That's right — exactly right." '

This is me--not just my team, my entire business line effectively does not exist in my hub (outside of client-side facing employees in satellite offices). And I don't work at all with the business lines that are there.

Ge-z - Nobody is advocating for RTO here or arguing the benefits of remote work. OP is sharing a well written article which lays out differences in how three major banks are measuring it.
As for satisfaction levels at Truist, they seem to dislike RTO in general (not many would choose it if given an option to work remotely ) but understand that they really don’t have a choice. I’ve spoken with folks from different age groups there about it. They complain way less than we do about going in and do things we used to do for each other - physical get well soon cards signed by everyone in the group, meal trains for unexpected loss , gifts for folks welcoming new babies, etc. I’ve heard it’s a dumpster fire over there with the constant churn, too, but they seem happier overall than we do, even on the topic of RTO, despite having an old school 5 day in office requirement.

@bp are the people you're interacting with just stating their careers or are they older? Because those are the two groups of people that seem to like being in the office.

As an elder millennial that grew up in the workforce during the rat race of the 2010s, I have basically zero tolerance for office dynamics and bullsh-t. I did that for years and now would like to take my conference calls where it works best that day. If that's home that's home. If that's office that's office.

Forget RTO: Fully remote workers report the highest well-being—and are less likely to quit, new study of 7,700 employees finds

@OP https://finance.yahoo.com/small-business/articles/despite-ceos-elon-musk-pushing-153545441.html

Duh.

@OP - Interesting how BoA, Truist, and Wells Fargo are all doing things differently with RTO. The folks I’ve interacted with at Truist seem happier with the RTO mandate, despite the 5 day in office requirement. The manager discretion for enforcement is probably why! Thank you for sharing.