As another reviewer has said, the weight and increasing effort this company is putting in to monitor office attendance has gotten ridiculous. Not only do employees feel like they’re being watched like children, but now we also need to worry about hitting certain marks for attendance because the dashboard does not factor in PTO, holidays, etc. Why are we putting more effort into this monitoring tool, but still leave these reporting gaps open? Its as if it’s modeled in such a way to make it look like employees are missing the mark.
Frank’s old ways of thinking in regards to office attendance has already caused great talent to leave the company, and it will most certainly continue - especially since we continue to put more effort into this monitoring. This “flexible” wfh arrangement has gotten increasingly inflexible as time goes on, and it’s very unfortunate that DTCC does not take employee feedback seriously at all on this subject. The fact performance is affected based on what chair employees are sitting in is the absolute wrong line of thinking.
DTCCs rationale on office attendance is to “increase collaboration”, but how does office attendance increase collaboration for the teams that are based overseas? Team collaboration does not change when the only collaboration is through a Zoom meeting - period. In fact, collaboration is decreased in this scenario due to the time wasted commuting just to make sure our badge swipe is recorded.
Another excuse DTCC uses as rationale is that other companies have had a similar attendance model since Covid. Why does this company claim to hold so much weight in innovation, then? Do we only innovate where convenient? It certainly feels that way, since employees concerns over this attendance policy are never heard and are instantly shut down.
