Since March 2nd of this year, all of I.T. has been WFH. During that time, some of us have re-located to different parts of the country and kept our big city salaries.
Two weeks ago, the bank announced I.T. was going to be remote work only (unless there was a darn good reason we had to be in office) and we were all free to move anywhere we wanted to.
In the announcement, there was zero mention of pay adjustments based on locations we ended up in. Five years ago, some of my co-workers re-located to a southwestern state where we stood up a new data center, they took their big city salaries with them. Consequently, we've been told our salaries remain the same where ever we go.
I'm targeting S.E. Tennessee. Taking my big city salary with me is going to be nice.
As I said, what VMWare and Twitter are doing is flying in the face of what my employer is doing. I guess VMWare and Twitter don't value their employees.
You’ve got a good company, and they obviously consider it a good investment to be able to keep the talent and institutional knowledge represented by their IT staff. I think that is what SMART COMPANIES should do, but then again, we are talking about Twitter and Facebook...
“Since March 2nd of this year, all of I.T. has been WFH. During that time, some of us have re-located to different parts of the country and kept our big city salaries. “
I’m WFH since March and there is no immediate sign of going back. If anything, productivity has gone UP. However, there is still some turnover, people retire/drop dead, etc....This isn’t a sustainable mode of operation. How do you really “onboard”?
Maybe this will give companies more thought to onboarding people. My “onboarding process” amounted to being thrown to wolves and allowed to sink or swim. But I was THERE.
Beware: higher up execs can change the policy of working from home or replace you by lower priced “consultants”.
The company I work at has been laying people off due to switching to Microsoft Office 365 and Oracle. Those people now do the work instead of the now former employees. We had 2 people move to other states about 2 years ago and they were given permission and told they could keep their jobs. One was in the network dept and the other in the Help Desk. Both lost their jobs soon after moving as the new higher up execs changed the policy of working from home. They were offered their jobs if they moved back but again would have lost their jobs with the news below. They went to Idaho and Arizona.
Yesterday we got an email saying a call center company was hired to replace those that left in our Help Desk dept and that we would be cross training them starting next week..... That they would move to working nights and weekend shifts. We already have 3 people on nights and they are not that busy so.... replacing and not adding to probably means they will lose their jobs and the day shift will be next, right after training our replacements!
That company is based in France and has offices all over the world. Some 225,000 employees.
The top 3 execs above my manager were all hired from India in the last 2 years and replaced 3 non Indians. I bet the manager is thinking he will be replaced and I bet he will be along with the west coast supervisor. The east coast supervisor quit last week as I bet he knows what is coming and he is leaving on his own terms. The director left a year ago and he was replaced by one on those from India.
I knew when I found out those from India were hired what was going to happen and unfortunately I was right!
I am lucky if I had to sell all my AMD stock I would have after taxes enough to last and last. I do not plan on selling but borrowing from the broker some money (margin money at 7%) and live off that next year while my stock goes up and up. It went from $28 to a high of $92 since October and some predictions are it may go to $200 to $250 next year or 2022.
I have been thru 2 other jobs where the plants or offices were closed en mass. Maybe if I stay long enough and get fired / laid off I will collect unemployment and maybe some plandemic money from the feds and state to see me thru as my stock rises : )