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Mindtree culture is detoriating day by day . No clarity on hike and appraisal even though mail have been sent regarding this since Dec 2021 . Disgusting HR head practice who joined from CTS . How come they don't abide by what they communicate and keep silence without any update for delay .
Shameful . Feeling Disappointed. Has joined this company 11 months back with hopes for longer and fruitful association but will resign soon . Pathetic company Mindtree
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Covid is over and no longer a threat or reason to still stay at home. This has been abused to the max over the past several years! I am a government contractor and seen this first hand! We’ve had several who come into office once a quarter and have been having a “free ride”. Free ride is over!
That's nonsense. Flex / hybrid work was in place well before covid. If an employee is productive, they are productive whether in a commercial building or not. In my experience, there is a great deal of wasted time in conventional office environments and many people are much more productive remotely or hybrid. Not to mention the increased quality of life when time and money isn't spent community 1.5hrs each way on a daily basis. Scapegoating remote or hybrid/flex workers is low-hanging fruit, it's 'noise.' There are bigger fish to fry. This is just a pathetic excercise of control.
I will. I'm 1.5 hours away from my office at this point, my kids are in a great school, we can't afford to live any closer to DC and I like where we're at. Not going to be commuting 3 hours a day are you kidding me? I'm planning to discuss with my supervisor, but I most likely will have to look for something else...
@Wildland Firefighter1 - wow that sounds like a terrible way to live? Congrats to her?
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As soon as I secure another job, I will move. Hope for remote/hybrid, but even those where telework is only 2 days a week in the area are not too bad, considering I would double my compensation.
Have been prepared for it, with all the talk leading up to this point. Not too surprised that it will still take some time. Wasn’t unaware that the wording was poor, so sure that will take some time too. I feel like the higher levels will be hit harder with this, but just kind of waiting and seeing.
While I hope I don’t lose my government contracting job, I’ver been trying to prepare for the inevitable. I work for the CDC but the branch that I work for relies heavily on contractors. There are only 514 FTEs over 2,000 contractors. I figure we’ll see some reduction but hopefully not too much. I live 5 hours from the nearest office.
Our offices (not Federal) went 5 day in office last year. Despite vociferous complaints and threats, the actual number of people that left was minuscule.
Were they teleworkers (who generally need to report to offices periodically) or remote workers (whose duty stations are their homes and may well have been hired that way)?
Looks like us union workers are not safe for much longer either!
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/latest-memos/agency-return-to-office-implementation-plans.pdf
Turns out there’s a lot of discussion on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1i66vd1/megathread_return_to_in_person_work_eo/
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I've worked for the govt for over 20+ years and generalizations from contractors is inaccurate pertaining to covid and remote work. Some govt positions were advertised and filled as "remote" years prior to covid, think cyber and IT professionals who do not need to conduct daily business in the office. Also employees with disabilities that cannot be accommodated in the office (someone in wheelchair hired to work a data entry job, but the building has stairs, and no ramp or elevator.
Tech advancements have also allowed employees to work online collaboratively and very productively. There are also instances where there just isn't enough space (desks, chairs, offices) for all gov't workers, I worked 5 days a week at in an office that didnt have space for over 100 govt employees. So the supervisors adjusted alternating work schedules so everyone had an opportunity to work onsite at least 3 days per work, or more as the job required. The gov't also leases an extensive amount of properties and buildings longterm from property owners, one lease I oversaw paid a building owner over $400k per year, with a 10-year lease and the was also responsible for building modifications. Could save $$$ millions if leases were cancelled or smaller spaces usedand have essential or critical personnel work a blend of telework and on-site. Or cancel duplicative contractor positions that a gov't employees are already performing. Some contractors aren't authorized to work remotely or telework and become upset, but they accepted the full time in office position just like the govt employee accepted the remote positions.
IDK how they're going to do it at my office. There aren't enough desks for all of this. I'm still not giving up my job. It pays to well.