Here is everything you need to know about State Farm’s return to office plan: the current policy, the timeline, and sentiment from State Farm leadership about how work will be done in the future at the company. State Farm’s Return To Office Policy Return To Office Date: July 1, 2021 Location Policy: Hybrid Office Visit Expectations: Set by manager Office Space Footprint: Decreasing …
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…
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,…
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…
Apple returned to the office (RTO) on April 11, 2022 with a hybrid work policy starting with one day per week in the office. Apple expects employees to return to the office for three days per week on September 5, 2022. This was expected to increase to two days per week after three weeks, then three days per week by May 23. Apple did reach…
After five delayed return-to-office dates, Wells Fargo officially got back into the office on March 14, 2022 with the expectation for employees to come in three days per week. Of the major US banks, Wells Fargo is the one that is most open to remote work. A New York Times article from 2021 stated, “Wells Fargo is bucking a Wall Street trend by leaving the…