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This can totally happen, though in this case it’s a bit of a collective action problem. Let’s say “full compliance is low” means 80% of people aren’t coming int
by Uehreka 2y ago
This can totally happen, though in this case it’s a bit of a collective action problem. Let’s say “full compliance is low” means 80% of people aren’t coming into the office. The banks likely can’t fire 80% of their employees over something like this, so they won’t. But then anyone who isn’t coming in and is bragging about it on Slack probably will get fired since letting go of a few conspicuous people to make an example is totally affordable. After that some people may decide it’s not worth the risk and decide to come back to the office. And then once the number of people failing to comply goes below some arbitrary unknown threshold, they may decide that they can afford to layoff the remaining stay-at-home folks, at which point if you haven’t decided to come back in yet, you could be fired.
I tried to use conditional tense a lot in there because none of this is set in stone. If management only kind of wants people in-office and has higher priorities, maybe y’all will get away with it. But if they’re really dead set on it and you don’t have a union fighting for you, expect to either return to the office or get fired eventually.
- e40 2y agoTreating employees differently is a recipe for a lawsuit. Thinking of the example you gave above.
- brk 2y agoWhile true, I think we've already seen plenty of ways that any halfway savvy employer, like a bank, can create documentation that justifies the firing.
- e40 2y agoSure, if the employee has a file of pending issues. For a squeaky clean record, though, it would be pretty easy for a lawyer to point this out and point to others who were not fired for the same thing.
- bluGill 2y agoOnly if it can be proven. There are lots of options for a good HR department to create a trail of paperwork to make the person you want to let go be different.
- throwitaway222 2y agoWell no, there are some employees that are actively encouraging people to ignore the rules is different than just ignoring the rules.
- kcplate 2y agoWhich is why some organizations who have workers that must be on a company location to do their jobs tend towards having post pandemic RTW policies for tech workers.
- pards 2y agoOP here. By "full compliance is low", I meant that people will still come into the office sometimes but not at the frequency mandated by management. For example, management says 3 days/week and people come in 1 day/week, or only for particular meetings etc.