Letters warned employees that failure to follow return-to-office expectations could lead to ‘further disciplinary action’

Letters warned employees that failure to follow return-to-office expectations could lead to ‘further disciplinary action’

Bank of America is cracking down on employees who aren’t following its return-to-office mandate, sending “letters of education” warnings of disciplinary action to employees who have been staying home.

Some employees at the bank received letters that said they had failed to meet the company’s “workplace excellence guidelines” despite “requests and reminders to do so”, according to the Financial Times. The letter warned employees that failure to follow return-to-office expectations could lead to “further disciplinary action”.

The bank is the latest company to signal to employees that going into the office is mandatory. Companies from Citigroup and Meta have been tracking whether employees have been going into the office, usually with a hybrid policy of three days in the office and two days at home, with similar warnings of discipline if employees don’t show up.

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For many workers, their hybrid policies are likely to stay. A new survey of American CEOs found that only six of 158 said they will prioritize bringing workers back to the office full-time in 2024. Another survey from Deloitte in November found 65% of chief financial officers surveyed said they will keep hybrid policies in place this year.

  • zcd
    64·
    11 months ago

    We need to outlaw unnecessary RTO

    • AnonTwo@kbin.social
      910·
      11 months ago

      I mean, there’s nothing morally wrong or dangerous about RTO

      It’s more something akin to pay and benefits. Aka what it needs is unions.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        341·
        11 months ago

        I think it’s morally wrong to allow a full-time employee to move across the country and begin to transition their career into being fully remote, have them buy a house, settle in with their new family, and then tell them that if they don’t move back, they’re out a job.

        I’d say that’s morally wrong.

        • zcd
          10·
          11 months ago

          And that carbon footprint

      • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
        12·
        11 months ago

        Well, there’s the contribution to climate change. There’s the added danger of driving at all - look at traffic fatalities. I’d argue that a business forcing unnecessary hazards on employees is morally wrong, as is causing unnecessary pollution.

        I mean, are we talking about bank tellers here? If you’re not a customer service person in a bank branch specifically there for face to face interactions, I struggle to think what you’d need to go to an office for at BoA.

      • Tenthrow@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        You know? It’s funny how much harder it would be to get a union started up if everyone is working remotely.

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          Riot games recently sent out a layoff letter. They told everyone to go home that day and take the next day off.

          Seems smart. Give everyone a chance to cool off before they stoke further resentment at the water cooler.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        WHAT? You don’t think there are moral arguments against RTO?

        How about the fucking AIR WE BREATHE?