Cambiamenti di lavoro ibridi boi – “problematico” -fsu

>Last week, the bank announced that from September, staff who are eligible for hybrid working will be required to work in-person a minimum of eight days per month or two days per week.

>”This is a major change for staff and will have implications for work/life balance, commute time, childcare, staff retention, and more,” said Caitleen Desetti, Industrial Relation Organiser with the FSU.

Until a recent job change, I’d been in my role for 9 years. Personally I was doing 1 day a week max since Covid with my team and zero days a week during Covid.

Myself and the four members of my team averaged about 3-4 million a year in return for 4 years pre Covid. Since Covid that’s fallen to 1.5m a year and last year less than a million. Large enough company and we’re a kind of specialist team that identify cost/billing opportunities.

The single biggest opportunity I ever had came from a random conversation in a hallway in 2019 where I bumped into someone I’d never met in person and we grabbed a coffee and towards the end of the chat she mentioned a particular product cost and suggested I might look into it as it wasn’t really something anyone seemed to know much about. I saved almost 2.5m of costs that year and it’s effectively been recurring since but was maybe a million last year (we only track it for direct measurement in the first year).

I’ve never seen her in person since and bar the odd call we’ve been on, haven’t really spoken to her.

Anywho, the wife and I had a gaggle of kids around Covid and I’ve seen more of my kids in their formative years than any dad I’ve ever known. I’ve absolutely loved it. Doing prep work at lunch time, I’ve become a really good cook. I made some pretty amazing pizzas from scratch on Monday with the kids helping out making dough at lunch and bringing all together after I finished working.

What I mean to say is, I get why some people are cynical and yeah I’m in a niche role, but as one of the minority of people who had a great time in Covid and has been an enormous beneficiary from wfh, my company has performed much worse because of us not being in the office and all the little connections and speedier learning that happens in physical offices.

Unrelatedly my old dept are pushing for folk to be back in 3 days a week and I’ve moved role now and it’s not as relevant and they’re happy for me to be in one day a week and so am I… But I very much so get why they’re pushing for a return to the office for 3 days a week.