The owner is disconnected from reality. After the CEO went on town halls during covid stating we are never going back to the office, they reneged on this and discriminating and targeting people within 50 mile radius of the offices to come to work 3 days a week. Many are not happy and looking for full time remote positions. Stefanini is going to lose talent and high performing employees to other companies that are REMOTE-FIRST.
HR, please don't reply to me with some sugarcoated explanation. Everyone knows this is because the owner is paying a lease for a building that isn't getting utilized.
However they have to pay for it regardless. What if we're still in the pandemic? He won't dare bring us back, so why now?
It's not to "promote collaboration, creativity and culture". The whole company has way more than enough of that. Do you not know that people from different departments or other managers talk to each other remotely and it's been very effective? The whole company proved that this works and we are very good at it.
Why not be an eco friendly company and not ask us to waste gas time and money to come in to do the exact same thing we do at home which is do our jobs, have our headsets and join meetings. We end up wasting time with stupid watercooler talks instead of being productive like we do at home.
Our teams are fully remote. So what's the point of managers going to the office when employees they manage are scattered across the US?
We think it's to either force people to resign or micromanage or simply the stupid idea of utilizing the building and make everyone suffer
What sucks is that the bathrooms and site is not well maintained. It's horrible compared to my bathroom at home. People are nasty and don't clean up after themselves. Temps are not regulated well in the building and never have been.
On another note, the yearly annual review and raises is pathetic. It's always the lowest on the mandatory survey engagement yet nothing about benefits and compensation have been done. My manager has bugged me to come up with action plans on the other things which we scored great on already. For agents, they pay around 13-14/hr unless a client pays more then maybe you see 18/hr. But veteran employees get punished because newer employees tend to get more money for the same amount of work. The company never catches up your pay and as I already mentioned you can't rely on penny raises
