Goldman RTO 5 days a week

Mar 11 39 Comments

I knew they’re really pushing for 3 days a week right now. Y’all think we’re moving to 5 days?
If so, I’m out.

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  • It’s been obvious that the long-term plan has always been 5 days a week. I listened to a talk from Chief of HCM in Fall 2021 and he mentioned that the firm will support more flexibility, but in the same breath said that standard 3in/2out hybrid won’t be supported. If you aren’t even willing to allow hybrid then you’re very far from flexible.

    Since then I’ve been planning my escape. Currently negotiating with two FAANGs to GTFO of this hellhole of a company.
    Mar 11 6
  • Goldman Sachs / Eng
    yeezy_

    Go to company page Goldman Sachs Eng

    yeezy_
    Y’all realize there’s little to nothing they can do if u don’t come in? I’m on a team where my manager and his managers forces everyone to come in 5 times a week and I’ve still not been in the office more than twice in one week🤷🏾‍♀️ I just say “okay” and proceed to do whatever’s convenient for me. I’m a top performer and have no understanding of why I should be forced to go in.
    Mar 11 2
  • JPMorgan Chase / Eng
    qRnc33

    Go to company page JPMorgan Chase Eng

    qRnc33
    News just came out that they're pushing to end hybrid and go back to 5 days a week. LOL what a joke
    Mar 11 4
    • Seems paywalled. That’s horrible anyways
      Mar 11


    • CEO David Solomon could not have been pleased at the turnout when Goldman Sachs reopened its 44-story headquarters in lower Manhattan on the morning of Feb. 1. The building had been closed for a month as COVID-19’s Omicron variant swept through town. Now, finally, with luck, Goldman employees could resume working together in person, as Solomon emphatically wants them to do, without further shutdowns. Yet as of late morning on that Tuesday, only about 5,000 of Goldman’s 10,000 HQ workers had shown up—despite having had over two weeks’ notice, and in seeming defiance of Solomon’s pointed desire to get everyone back in the office as soon as safely possible.

      Is that tepid turnout an anomaly? Or is it a harbinger?

      Solomon has risked looking like a Neanderthal as remote work has gone mainstream worldwide. Top-tier tech firms—Salesforce, Twitter, Meta (Facebook’s parent), Spotify—have told thousands of employees they’re liberated to work remotely full-time, anywhere in the world. Some of Goldman’s Wall Street rivals, including Citigroup and UBS, are letting staffers work from home regularly and claim the policy will give the firms a competitive advantage in recruiting and retaining excellent employees. Solomon has said the opposite. Remote work “is not ideal for us, and it’s not a new normal,” he famously told a finance industry conference in February 2021. “It’s an aberration that we’re going to correct as quickly as possible.”

      Mar 11
  • In gs, the top management says it's employees choice but internally they track which team has most in office attendance. It's fucking bullshit from top management saying they are people first. In our team meeting, manager showed us the excel where the MDs are tracking which department has not met in office commitments.
    Mar 11 1
  • The head of our group told us last week “this isn’t a 3/2 or 4/1 company. It is a 5-0 company.” Apparently they are tracking everyone’s attendance and managers are getting lists of people who have low attendance so they can bully them into coming in.
    Mar 11 2