My main concern, as is the trend with most reviews in the past ten months, is the mandate to return to office five days per week. HQ in Wilmington made the change at the beginning of this year right as 7% of employees were let go, and SLC is making the change in October. HR responded to a recent Glassdoor review stating that they no longer feel the need to defend their decision to return to office. That's very disheartening to hear as a SLC employee who is about to undergo the change. The decision to move back to the office for us was coupled with the announcement that the office was moving from Cottonwood Heights to Lehi (about 25 miles away). Anyone who has experienced rush hour traffic at Point of the Mountain knows that this change isn't minor. SLC is simply a more sprawled out city than Wilmington, and I think our executive team needs to consider that. Supposedly, the move back to the office at HQ hasn't resulted in major attrition, but morale has felt low, and the reviews and average rating on Glassdoor reflects unease within the company. People made important financial and personal decisions based on the lie that we wouldn't ever go back to a 5-day-a-week in office company. For reference, search for a WECT Channel 6 News article on May 26, 2021 where Pierre discussed a hybrid model. He's quoted saying, “I will let them work where they feel they can do their best work," but that, "We’re going to make it so exciting to be back in the office, to collaborate with your friends and colleagues, that I think we will see people working in the office two or three days a week, maybe four days sometimes.” If I had my choice, I'd rather that nCino proved that they could make going back to the office exciting while letting us work where we feel we can do our best work. At the very least, I want to believe that our feedback will be heard as the SLC office makes the change. It's a decision that is clearly upsetting many people. Shutting reviews down with responses that say that the company doesn't feel the need to defend itself anymore—despite nearly every review bringing it up as a massive con—feels disingenuous and soulless.
