Posted on 09/27/2022 2:59:48 PM PDT by conservative98
General Motors pushed back the start of a return-to-office plan after facing fierce resistance from employees over its handling of the rollout.
The Detroit-based auto giant rankled corporate employees by announcing in a memo last Friday afternoon that they would be required to work onsite at least three days per week beginning later this year.
But GM executives reversed course in an update to staffers on Tuesday – saying the plan won’t be implemented until the first quarter of next year at the earliest. The company also apologized for the manner in which employees learned of the change.
“We acknowledge that the timing of the message, late on a Friday afternoon, was unfortunate. It was also unintentional,” GM CEO Mary Barra and other executives said in a memo to employees obtained by The Post.
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GM employees took to online message boards to vent their frustration, including Blind, an anonymous corporate forum which verifies employees using their professional email accounts.
One worker wrote “General Motors is doomed” in response to the policy.
“So many people were already on the edge of leaving because of low pay and now this ####,” the worker wrote, adding, “they will never retain young talent.”
“Anyone find it interesting last month GM leaders say wfh is new standard and now we are forced to return with no heads up? If they are trying to push us out they are doing a good job,” another worker wrote.
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What a bunch of babies
“Low Pay” versus NO PAY?
That is high priced stupid.
The American workforce that overwhelmed the Axis forces in WWII has disintegrated into a disheveled clutch of lazy good-for-nothing whiners...
If employees don’t want to come to work, don’t employ them.
My son in law has experienced the same thing
One thing I know about smart, talented young people. They aren't afraid of work and they want to rise fast. So GM should take a page from Amazon or Tesla, hire smart young people, pay them well, and work them 70 hours a week. You'll be pleasantly surprised what they can create.
Nice paintbrush.
Our teams' productivity has gone through the roof. We implemented processes that needed to be done decades ago. We can turn parts of the process in 3 days which previously took us 3-4 weeks. Every step of the processes shows exactly who's holding up the works. No one can hide in meetings or busywork.
There are incredible advantages to working remote; our team expanded across four states and includes talent we would never have if we had to continue hiring within distance of the office. One of the best staff I've ever worked with started after the lockdowns and moved on and up about a year and a half later without ever meeting anyone in the company face to face. They ran circles around the cubicle dwellers.
Most people I deal with have a better home office setup than the cubicle farm with more and better computer gear than could fit in the cubicle farm. Performance has increased, especially with no stupid interruptions or in-person time wasting.
Even if we were back in the office, we'd be having constant remote meetings due to all the off-site stakeholders. The cacophony of conversations all going on at the same time would make them impossible.
The company is saving a fortune in rent and overhead and it has helped them with winning new contracts. The company also has almost absolutely zero risk of sexual harassment or discrimination issues.
Yes. The young ones have been sufficiently scared over "big bad COVID" and will never return to the workplace now.
I'm a Baby Boomer and have worked throughout this so called "pandemic" because we were raised differently. We were not raised to cower in a corner of the room, shivering in fear over some silly virus.
But we will all be retired soon and so the rest of you are stuck with the millennials. Good luck.
It's the other way around.
The smart companies have access to remote talent that they could never hire locally. I work with people that couldn't come in to the office if they wanted to without getting on an airplane because they are multiple states away.
The industry has lost a LOT of talent and knowledge. While many were retirements a lot were people who had more opportunities due to remote work. These employers know they can ill afford to lose people, especially if they were to lose them to their competition.
Re: in-home office setups
Did they have better IT security than the office IT setup?
Where do you think the Big 3 are located?
Dumbass. Thousands of people work, and live there, and will continue to.
As someone already posted…nice paintbrush.
Again. With emphasis.Dumbass.😂
Obamamotors needed to be left to die years ago. The Union extortionists have burdened them with unsustainable legacy costs and the only way to shed them is insolvency.
Propping them up would only provide still more fuel for the UAW’s money laundering machine, which in turn props up the demoncrats. Starve the labor unions (which were organized crime until the 1935 NLRA “legalized” them) and you also starve the demoncrats.
As for the little people, GM owns substantial real and intellectual property. If some Wall Street wizard thinks the free market will support it, they’ll buy it all up and resurrect GM, possibly under a different marque, but probably using most of the same production plants and personnel.
If they don’t think it would be viable then that means the government has been propping up a zombie all these years and the employees were riding on a bubble paid for by taxpayers. You can’t expect the taxpayers to keep paying the shortfalls of a business that the unions were sucking dry.
Let’s go GM!
+1
Fire them
Next
Absolutely. That's the other thing. They're running Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Devices (WVD) which are more locked down than the physical computers on the network. Couple that with the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), it's even more secure than a computer at a desk in the building.
Between OneDrive and SharePoint, we have more control over who access files than we did on the servers.
I have a younger relatives that work remotely. It is hard to return to the office when you have set up roots 1K miles away. That relative easily found another remote job when they were canned for not showing up..
I have had a virtual company for the last 10 years. I work with developers around the world. Glad to see others are catching up!
I have had salesperson candidates bail out of interviews when they learn my company requires on-site work.
We own retail stores.
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