I've heard rumors that employees will eventually be required to work in the same location as their manager or a certain percentage of their team but nothing definite.
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Not in my LOB. Recent new hires are in different cities than my manager. And my manager was in a different city than the previous manager or the one before him.
2019: work from home, it saves the company money.
2020: work from home or you're fired.
2022: work from building A or you're fired.
2023 - 2024: you're being fired for working in building A. Also, the OC has denied your request to transfer to another building.
2025: you're being fired for not spending enough time in building B to collaborate spontaneously around the water cooler.
2026: you're being fired for not clicking your mouse enough or using Copilot enough.
2027: you're being fired because someone else is not in building B with you. Also, your request for relocation to a building with more peers has been denied by the OC.
The only certainty at WF is that mo--ns in HY spend all their time downsizing people and lying about it.
Sounds like a typical board troll rumor.
The scale of adoption varies greatly by LOB... It's mostly an opportunistic layer applied when other decisions are being made (leader/manager leaves WF, location strategy, etc). The goal is to drive for higher levels of colocation where possible, but there's not been much appetite at the OC level to generate extra cost/expense solely to make it happen.
Also expect that you'll see much more of it with teams/roles that require greater supervision and oversight than you will with higher level professional roles.
Bottom line, expect a slow migration in that direction over years vs a radical shift
I 100% support that. Makes perfect sense otherwise RTO was just smoke and mirrors.
@a3 Why displace tons of talent and experience only to rehire people with minimal experience simply because of a zip code? Absolute insanity.
LOB dependent.
This may happen for some teams, but its unlikely to ever be the case unless they close the New York and SF offices completely. Too many functions in NY, SF, and Charlotte.
To some extend, it will happen over time as we displace people and rehire in Charlotte and Irving.