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I attended an interview and did assignment for Multimedia designer role 15 days ago fo BMC team at EY GDS, still not heard back, interview was positive and assignment is also good. HR's don't reply to email and don't pick calls, should I keep hope or forgot it? I'm just asking for feedback because I have put 6 hours hard work in to assignment.
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Almost 100%, can’t wait! All of these people whining about it can go work at the 7-eleven down the street from them.
Gee, I wonder why no one wants to work for the big 4 anymore.
Hopefully companies will start to open up. Let people work from home, people are tired of leaving the house at 7 am just to sit in traffic to go to an office where they isolate all day. I understand companies have these multi-year leases and want to justify that cost but just throw some events with free food and have all the high level staff be there and host these once a month until lease is over then downsize.
RTO and employee surveillance aren’t the answer. There’s plenty of inefficiencies in office and I have to come in occasionally for work that must be done in person for valid reasons and then it’s still fighting to find phone rooms or taking calls from the car… wayyy more efficient at home. I think part of the RTO push is commercial real estate and wanting to do things “how they were always done”
Definitely agree with this. I hate coming in just to sit alone and be on zoom calls when I could do that at home. When people do come in, and others talk to them, they seem annoyed by it. And I see both sides in the sense that the people who come in to build relationships take the rebuffing hard and we see articles online about how the office is socially isolating and people are sitting alone on zoom calls all day but I get the other side that you’re trying to get your work done and don’t want to talk to anyone. The whole thing is a mess and we should all be permanently remote imo.
Client yes. Consulting firm no
Consulting firmsn follow what their clients tell them...if you will have a client who will ask for 4 days a week presence I can guarantee you that unfortunately, the partner will accommodate that without hesitation...
The pendulum is def swinging hard to RTO policies as a reaction to WLB and perceived waste with WFH. This is a phase and we will probably ease back into hybrid in 2-3 years, when data shows that productivity decreases with hardline RTO
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I was mostly remote even before the pandemic so I doubt it
Same.
Perhaps I’ll travel to the client a bit more, but EY does not have enough office space to accommodate everyone in an office.
Yup. Just like airlines started charging everyone crazy baggage fees to force everyone do carry on and now got forbid your carry on is 0.0001 over the midget dimensions they allow
Clients won’t pay for it and most firms don’t have the space to accommodate.
Already doing this 5 days a week, it’s terrible
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My firm has always been remote + client travel. During covid, clients learned that we could work effectively from home and now they don’t want to pay for travel.
They will do it if they need to get rid of their employees
However, there aren’t enough workers so it will be very rare
First post on here - don’t worry about it.
50-50, either they do or they don't
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Interviewed for a role at D and was told the expectation is for in-office attendance first, with wfh being OK occasionally (sick, meeting the cable guy, etc).
The 5-day RTO will be the 2025 WFR method. Stay tuned!!!
As always there is a wealth of information on linked in
People that do the jobs and will answer questions
Consultation = travel, not in office
break this down like a (pause, cringe alert) case study interview, no feasibility for it.
You’ll be wfh 7 days a week once you are replaced by cheaper offshore or AI.
You're more productive at home vs office and gross bathrooms, it's cost savings, dumb businesses