The most recent public update from Verizon about its return-to-office policy came in 2022. As of April 1, 2022, most corporate Verizon employees are expected to work on a hybrid schedule, although a specific amount of visits per week was never specified. Here is everything you need to know about Verizon’s return to office plan: the current policy, the timeline of delays, and sentiment from…
Rumors have started circling on forums this week. CVS sent out an internal email calling people to return to the office in certain locations for three days per week. I reached out to four people at CVS Health/Aetna, but have not heard back at the time of writing this. I will update this article as soon as I get a statement from CVS. Although the…
I track the Fortune 100’s return to office policies here. As a result, I can see all of the Google search terms that bring people to my report. In the last few days, Google searches for “Ford return to office” spiked. This is a telltale sign that a new internal RTO policy has been released. This time, it has yet to be reported in mainstream…
Rumors have started circling on forums this week. John May, the CEO of John Deere, sent out an email calling all employees back to the office four days per week starting in March. I reached out to some people at John Deere, but have not heard back. Although the rumors haven’t been confirmed by anyone at John Deere yet, here’s what I know so far….
Bank of America returned to the office on June 1, 2022 with the expectation for all employees to show up full time (five days per week). Bank of America leadership has taken a pro-office stance with little flexibility for remote work. Managers have provided cupcakes, staff lunches, and more perks to entice employees back to the office (which allows us to assume the employee sentiment…
I’m joined today by Kathy Kacher, the president of Career/Life Alliance Services and co-founder of The SMART Workplace. Kathy is an expert in workforce transformation and has helped numerous companies with post-pandemic plans, return-to-office plans, and implementing a hybrid work model. Interview With Kathy Kacher Below, you’ll find some key takeways that Kathy shared in answering each question. The takeaways were…
Goldman Sachs returned to the office on February 1, 2022 with the expectation for all employees to show up full time (five days per week). However, on the RTO day only 5,000 of the 10,000 (50%) employees that work at New York City headquarters showed up. Goldman Sachs CEO, David Solomon, has a negative stance toward hybrid and remote work stating multiple times that remote…
Meta, parent company of Facebook, returned to the office on March 28, 2022 with the expectation for workers to show up to the office 50% of the time. That must not have worked, though. In June of 2023, Meta set a new return to office date of September 5, 2023 with the expectation to visit the office three days per week. In August of 2023,…
Alphabet (Google) returned to the office on April 4, 2022 with a voluntary policy to work in a hybrid fashion for three days per week. Until an internal memo on June 7, 2023, Google had a positive stance toward remote work, stating that it expects 20% of its workforce to take advantage of the opportunity to work remotely full time, and that 85% of requests…
The data shows that people want to work from home. Pew researchers found (in a 2022 survey of 10,237 U.S. adults) that… 60% of workers with jobs that can be done from home say they’d like to work from home all or most of the time when the pandemic is over. Among those who have a workplace outside of their home, 61% now say they…