GM announced that it has changed its policies regarding remote work as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, calling its workers back to the office for three days a week.
A report by Automotive News indicates that the automaker has amended its flexible “Work Appropriately” guidelines, which allowed its white-collar workers to work remotely more often. Under these guidelines, salaried workers that worked from home during the peak of the pandemic could continue to perform their duties remotely, although it’s worth noting that Work Appropriately was not an official policy, but rather a so-called “shared mindset.”
GM says that it elected to modify its expectations for remote work as the pandemic wanes. In a statement regarding the amended guidelines, a GM spokesperson said, “We’re committed to maintaining flexibility to ensure our employees can attend to personal commitments, and we will share details with them in the coming weeks.”
The adjusted guidelines were distributed to GM employees by way of an internal message from the senior leadership team, including CEO Mary Barra. “Over time, we have lost some of the important, intangible benefits of regularly working together in-person including, casual mentoring, more efficient communication and bringing an enterprise mindset to work,” the message read. “We are entering a rapid launch cycle that, quite frankly, will define our future trajectory, and we need to drive change with speed – individually and collectively – so we can achieve our goals.”
The call to return to office work will bring employees back to the massive GM Renaissance Center complex located in Detroit, which has been nearly empty since the start of the pandemic. Many of the building’s tenants, including restaurants, shops and office space renters have parted ways with the facility as a result of reduced foot traffic, leaving elements of the Renaissance Center’s future up in the air.
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Hopefully the renovations to the safe spaces and cry closets have been completed.
I suspect HEAVY use.
This is priceless…..
Duh, fire the cry babies if they won’t come back.
About time. First logical thing she has done in years!
Just hold on now. It’s only for 3 days a week.
Well 3 days is better than nothing
Unbelievable. American productivity has slipped considerably by the criminally motivated Covid 19 crisis, which was one of the objectives of the bad actor fabricator dissrupters. That alongside inflation and the continued dumbing down of America without firing a shot. Elegant planning and execution by the bad actors.
I don’t think that is very smart. GM software developers will leave in droves to other companies that allow a work from home schedule on top of getting a 30% raise with the move. With over 600,000 IT job openings in this country, they really shouldn’t be screwing with those guys.
“GM steps back on new return-to-office policy after backlash from salaried workers.” So much for returning to work.