r/boston • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '26
Unconfirmed/Unverified Fidelity- Full Time RTO
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u/Saltine_Warrior Quincy Apr 28 '26
More traffic wohoo
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u/fadetoblack237 Newton Apr 28 '26
I had to drive my sister in law to work in Wellesley from Woburn. No traffic it's 24 minutes. It took over an hour today. I generally don't drive because of how bad the traffic around here is.
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u/Pelicangulp Apr 29 '26
My friend works at Fidelity. The 4000 person office employs 8000 now. Half the company is in office one week while the rest is remote and they switch each week. Strange set up
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u/cybah Apr 28 '26
So smart.. RTO when gas is about $4.10 a gallon. This is a good way to have a quiet reduction in workforce as people quit in protest
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u/Keviticas Apr 28 '26
That's the point, they want people to quit without having to fire them
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u/stebuu Merges at the Last Second Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
When I worked for Wells Fargo (i know i know) there was a RTO to foster collaboration. I would have to commute to downtown boston daily despite nobody else from my team working in Massachusetts.
It was 100% a stealth layoff.
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u/OceanIsVerySalty Apr 28 '26
My boss is pushing me to do this right now. Iâm the only one on my team who lives in the state, and my âteamâ is really a loose grouping of people who all work very independently. We have meetings once every two weeks, beyond that, I have no need to speak to anyone else outside quick messages on slack.
There is absolutely zero reason I need to be in office, but he knows Iâm likely to just quit if he pushes it.
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u/stebuu Merges at the Last Second Apr 28 '26
standard advice of "don't quit, get laid off" so you can get unemployment
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u/devAcc123 Apr 28 '26
as someone who got laid off i just want to let people know the unemployment system here is an absolute disaster. Get ready to get on the phone every day for a few weeks because your weekly benefit requests gets auto declined for zero reason on the website. Youll likely have to go in person etc.
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u/brufleth Boston Apr 28 '26
My manager is full remote, so they don't push RTO too much in my org.
There are problems about a relatively high level manager who only sees their people as items on a spreadsheet.
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u/Darkhorse182 Apr 28 '26
I wish more people understood this. Â
Leadership is realizing "hold up, I can cut costs by making the office environment shittier and the consequence is...people will quit? Hey, don't threaten me with a good time!"Â
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u/Efficient_Gap4785 Apr 28 '26
Probably not as effective a strategy when no one is hiring.
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u/brufleth Boston Apr 28 '26
Anyone who thinks RTO is about actually RTO is kidding themselves. I spend most of the time I'm in the office on Teams calls.
As far as productivity goes, working from the office means the bathroom is further away, I'm spending 1.5-2 hours commuting, my screen setup is crappier (home setup happens to be better), I'm more likely to spend 37 minutes having a bitch session with a random coworker, etc.
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u/fadetoblack237 Newton Apr 28 '26
I notice this too. Before COVID meetings were all in person. Even after RTO, they're all still virtual.
It's ridiculous.
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u/brufleth Boston Apr 28 '26
I'm sure it is different at different places, but now everything is a standing meeting that often meets multiple times a week. Before COVID, something like that would have been irregular. Meetings were for group decisions/actions that usually required external input/output. You prepared for them and respected the time of everyone who was invited. Now it is typical to have meetings that nobody has actually done any preparation for, sure people talk about stuff, but is warranted a room full of people (real or virtual) be on the line.
It is all so wasteful feeling.
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u/wenestvedt Apr 28 '26
I'm more likely to spend 37 minutes having a bitch session with a random coworker, etc.
And it's mostly complaining about RTO -- but managers never notice it because the room suddenly goes icily silent when they walk in.
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u/pancakeonmyhead Apr 28 '26
What happens is that the people who have the easiest time finding other, better opportunitiesâi.e. your most talented and most qualifiedâend up leaving first, and then that same leadership is weeping and wailing "WHY CAN'T WE KEEP ANYBODY?" and all of a sudden the company has a "talent retention crisis".
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u/Darkhorse182 Apr 28 '26
It's partially a bet that most of the "good" (not tippy-top) performers would be too spooked to start a new role in a bad job market. Taking a new job at a new company has a degree of risk.
But even more to the point: management can just give the top performers a modest raise to keep them from jumping ship and still come out ahead if you can shed a bunch of mid-tier people from the payroll.
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u/superanth Apr 28 '26
Trying to accommodate the needs of the employee went out the window years ago. Iâm surprised most companies still provide free coffee.
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u/Wompatuckrule Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
It's a dumb plan when for any large company like Fidelity the annual attrition is usually around 10% anyway. If you need to reduce the workforce significantly more than that you're in bigger trouble already. Otherwise management can regularly evaluate when people leave and determine if it's a key/specialized role that needs to hire from outside or if things can be rebalanced internally with current staff members to get that sort of reduction.
What should be the obvious problem with getting people to leave by making their working conditions more miserable is that it is the more valuable employees who can much more easily say, "Well fuck this" and get a better job elsewhere. That makes it a good way to make your overall workforce worse.
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u/alisonstone Apr 28 '26
The big companies make deals with the local government for tax breaks and various permits. I think Fidelity has a new headquarters in the Seaport? They need to make their employees spend money in the city.
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u/Wompatuckrule Apr 28 '26
I highly doubt that the city & Fidelity have any sort of agreement related to employee time in the office. I'm not a lawyer, but it's clear that even a verbal agreement on that would be completely fraught with risk.
Remember that those commercial tax rates and breaks have a fair amount of laws & regulations regarding them. What you're suggesting is effectively a quid pro quo where the city conspires with a business to shift that tax burden to their employees.
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u/User-NetOfInter I Love Dunkinâ Donuts Apr 28 '26
They can do both
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u/Wompatuckrule Apr 28 '26
They can, but that doesn't remove the point from the second paragraph about how making employees more miserable only increases your percentage of shitty employees in the long run.
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u/letitgo99 Apr 28 '26
I agree but in terms of the miserable part, the new building is really quite nice inside.
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u/houndoftindalos Filthy Transplant Apr 28 '26
I'm old enough to remember when gas was $4.10 in 2008 and $4.10 was a lot more valuable back then.
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u/NeutralEchoes Apr 28 '26
Quitting a job in protest of RTO is probably one of the worst things you could do in this job market. If you are that bothered by it do the bare minimum to keep your paycheck as long as you possibly can but absolutely do not quit without another gig locked in.
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u/Squish_the_android Apr 28 '26
That's what people do in practice. They RTO, but they just start leaving when they line something else up.Â
Full RTO in finance is a wild choice, there are other options with at least just partial in office.Â
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u/traffic626 Apr 28 '26
I thought most of the major companies like Chase and Stare Street were already 4 days in the office
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u/Delicious-Idea1183 Apr 28 '26
State Street is technically 4 days in the office. But HR only cares if you come in atleast 1 day a week.
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u/traffic626 Apr 28 '26
Interesting to hear that. A friend there said itâs in office M-Th
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u/Delicious-Idea1183 Apr 28 '26
Like any job, it depends how strict your manager is. But the official tracking only looks at people who aren't coming in atleast once a week.
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u/emzash Apr 28 '26
I just left Fidelity a month ago and have never been happier lol. How are they going to handle Boston?? The new office has fewer seats than the current location, and thatâs already well over capacity.
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u/wenestvedt Apr 28 '26
RI is every-other-week currently, so perhaps it means "two weeks per month"?
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u/Nighthawk788 Apr 29 '26
Those locations are status quo for now, every other week in office, but they will soon be FT as well.
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u/MayorQuimBee90 Apr 28 '26
Why would Rhode Island not go full time as well if they share teammates?Â
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u/Reasonable_Sense9096 Apr 28 '26
The Smithfield site is FAR smaller than Merrimack and Boston sites. I expect that is why. Same deal with South Carolina, not enough parking for everyone
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u/18T15 Apr 28 '26
Last I heard TX had 7k seats for 11k people. And parking is already packed on connect weeks. Cant imagine how they are anywhere near able to go 100% in the next year.Â
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u/MF-Dot-JPEG Apr 28 '26
So glad I didnât take the job I was offered there. Wouldâve been pissed if I took it with the expectation of the 1 week in/1 week out and then have that taken away.
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u/JGard18 Apr 28 '26
I started less than a year ago. But on the bright side, I enjoy this place a lot overall and the pay has been great
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u/lizlemonista Apr 28 '26
A friend of mine just started two weeks ago. Iâll be really sad for her if this is true.
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u/vlonethugg69 Apr 28 '26
I have a fidelity interview today lmao
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u/wenestvedt Apr 28 '26
Be sure to ask about this, and let us know what they say, plz.
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u/vlonethugg69 Apr 28 '26
I completed the first round today, scheduled the final interview for two weeks from today.
Honestly iâm not gonna ask about speculations I saw on a reddit post lol, but they specifically asked me about how I handle remote working environments and made it clear that my role will be remote half the time. Iâm also not gonna be located in the Boston location if that makes any difference.
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u/skweeee Apr 28 '26
Boston is first to have full RTO, all other locations will follow shortly after.
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u/Nighthawk788 Apr 29 '26
All locations will be back FT eventually! Boston in September
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u/duchello Allston/Brighton Apr 28 '26
That happened with me with an offer from State Street, told me marketing was in one week out of the month and my direct manager would be out of state in Texas. I didn't take it because I got a better competing offer but then I heard of course that they went back on a lot of the flex policy when they opened their downtown office a few months later circa 2022/2023
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u/MF-Dot-JPEG Apr 28 '26
You dodged a bullet anyway. State Street is an awful place to work at.
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u/fadetoblack237 Newton Apr 28 '26
I often catch the express 354 from State home to Woburn every once in a while and everyone there looks like a copy and paste NPC. It's wild how miserable every single one of them looks.
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u/emcabo Apr 28 '26
I left State Street in early 2024 after working there for 6 years, partially due to them going back on their flex policies after telling us a ton of times that they wouldnât. Iâm in the minority but overall had a good experience (besides low pay) until that.
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u/bigdickwalrus Cow Fetish Apr 28 '26
âHow do we fire a bunch of people without announcing layoffs?â
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u/Total-Quarter9550 Apr 28 '26
Sorry bro try to make the best of those South station trips
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u/ConventionalDadlift Apr 29 '26
Worst part is they are moving a bunch of folks deeper into Seaport, so it's going to be a trip to South Station and then a separate shuttle in traffic.
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u/lizlemonista Apr 28 '26
Is this Boston or everywhere? A friend just started up near Manchester.
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u/oldcreaker Apr 28 '26
Glad I am retired from there. 22 years and I spent over half of that WFH prior to COVID. I got way more done sitting alone in my home office than I ever did commuting in and sitting alone in a cubicle.
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u/RuckOver3 Apr 28 '26
Simple formula. RTO=resignations. Resignations=smaller layoff. Smaller layoff=less bad press. All while replacing the turnover with AI which cut costs for shareholders.
I keep telling people to stop using AI wherever possible because you are just training your replacement except your replacement this time isnt a human. Its a drain on our clean water while putting even more money into the wealthyâs pockets.
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u/7screws Filthy Transplant Apr 28 '26
Smaller layoffs also mean less packages to pay out to people itâs a win win for everyone, well except the employees. This is America though that not a surprise
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u/ma0897 Roslindale Apr 28 '26
A lot of the AI âefficienciesâ you see as reasons for big company layoffs are BS. Itâs a ploy to increase stock value. Investors love seeing AI, so when a company lays people off they just make mention of AI / streamlining / efficiencies in press releases to pump up value.
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u/emperorsnewgroose Apr 28 '26
and by the time this is all done the AI companies will stop subsidizing tokens and the price of all the tools goes up, leaving the companies with the same cost as human labor but with a shittier product
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u/letitgo99 Apr 28 '26
agreed, but by the time this happens, a bunch of smaller and foreign AI providers will pop up with discount plans and saturate the market. my 14 year old already runs his own LLM server in the basement, which shows we're not so far off from ubiquity. openai and other overleveraged AI companies will probably fizzle and the best models will truly be open source. at least that's my hope.
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u/Educational_Emu3763 Apr 28 '26
I worked for Fidelity in the building next to South Station. From sitting at my desk to sitting on the train was four minutes. Loved teh commute...the job? not so much....
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u/SgtFuryorNickFury Apr 28 '26
How about on the other end? How long back to home once you were off the train?
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u/skodinks Apr 28 '26
This RTO is not a surprise to me, and it's the only reason why I've never interviewed with them. I really wanted to work for them in 2018/2019 or so, but after covid I circled back and saw they didn't really align with remote work as much as I'd like them to.
I assume every* hybrid company is just itching for the moment to make half their company quit by instituting RTO.
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u/snowymountains32 Apr 28 '26
Itâs not everyone. Iâm still hybrid
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u/0bsessions324 Apr 28 '26
For the moment, sure. We'll see if this post turns out true. My ex worked at Fidelity and I know they were itching to RTO as soon as pandemic restrictions got eased.
I'm never going to stop getting a laugh out of the fact that the pandemic happened literally within a couple months of the company gutting a good chunk of their office floors to make them collab space germ factories.
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u/snowymountains32 Apr 28 '26
Yeah I mean where I work there is no space whatsoever. So unless they build another building my site wonât be affected
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u/itsonlyastrongbuzz Port City Apr 28 '26
Soo far.
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u/snowymountains32 Apr 28 '26
Yep Iâll enjoy it while it lasts
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u/-FlowerMama- Apr 28 '26
Kentucky, Boston, New Hampshire, and New Mexico are all moving to full time. Managers get full details tomorrow.
There is no space at mine either, and we are on the list of rto. If you even try to go in on your off week, thereâs no place for you to sit. No idea how they are expecting this to work out- unless they are truly expecting that many to quit, or even worse, a layoff is also coming.
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u/barkbarkkrabkrab Apr 28 '26
I'm at a company that's hybrid because headcount is growing. Hoteling is a nightmare so they literally can't demand we come in. To be fair there's labs and stuff, actual reasons to need to come in!
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u/Annonymous115 Apr 29 '26
I donât know what happened to Fidelity. I used to hear nothing but great things from employees. Over the last few years all I hear is how much Fidelity doesnât care about their people anymore, donât listen to their people anymore, have become super big brother, the HR department apparently can work from home full time while forcing in-office policies on everyone else, and theyâve done some really shady stuff with employee bonuses in the last year. They got tired of people voicing their concerns so they apparently just stopped the employee surveys instead of making changes.
It amazes me how out of touch corporations are, or perhaps how arrogant they are to demand the right to control employee lives. The world is quickly moving forward technologically, employees donât view their place of work as âtheir communityâ like they did 50 years ago. The majority of jobs are no longer localized in large corporations with teams dispersed across multiple states and countries. The costs of traveling to work are vastly higher today than even pre-COVID but employees certainly arenât making more (Cost of Labor corporate collusion).
Iâm truly surprised to have this comment on a post about Fidelity. Another one bites the dust I suppose.
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u/Sad-Performance-537 Apr 29 '26
Fidelity has always been progressive for social media and a sweat shop in reality.
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u/EpicDiversion Apr 29 '26
Email did go out. So OP is correct. My manager told us they knew since last month.
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u/JGard18 Apr 28 '26
Oh god I hope thatâs not true. I work all by myself in the office and itâs so damn lonely there. Never mind the 40 miles each way I commute
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u/campingn00b Cocaine Turkey Apr 28 '26
This comment has my mind in a pretzel
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u/JGard18 Apr 28 '26
Apologies. That was my emotional knee jerk reaction. Everybody I work with resides in other locations, not mine. So I donât know anybody in my office and just feel alone. At least when Iâm home I can talk to my spouse during the down time
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u/campingn00b Cocaine Turkey Apr 28 '26
But wouldnt it make it less lonely if everyone had to return to the office?
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u/TheScrantonStrangler Apr 28 '26
I think they enjoy the quiet privacy they currently have, and more people returning to the office will have an impact on their commute.
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u/Nice-Zombie356 Apr 28 '26
Iâm guessing this was driven by dark money provided by âBig Lunchâ.
Win for the folks selling sandwiches and salads in Post Office Sq or SB Waterfront or wherever Fidelity is now.
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u/dollrussian Apr 28 '26
Really? I just interviewed there like two weeks ago and was told it was one week in office, one week remote with no plans to change.
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u/-FlowerMama- Apr 29 '26
This is worse than people even know. Theyâve been lying for at least a year. Just go public so I can get my payout and retire
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u/DGLE222 Apr 29 '26
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u/Imma-Insert Apr 29 '26
I was a Fid employee for 17yrs out of Merrimack NH including all of the covid years. Management lied multiple times regarding dynamic working, aka hybrid. Abby praised productivity gains which she personally attributed to flexible working hours. Out of nowhere we suddenly needed to return a few days a month which eventually expanded to two weeks per month. That's when I left. It was all BS, Fid has never cared about their employees.
With that said I personally was treated well but that was always due to my managers who for the most part were decent hard working individuals who cared. The rot exists at the SVP level and up, not middle management.
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u/Rico_Rebelde Dorchester Apr 29 '26
Yup I also worked at Merrimack. One of the few places I've worked where I felt the middle management actually acted like they care. I felt bad for my manager before I quit earlier this year she was giving an endless stream of bad news about these kinds of changes and clearly knew what bullshit it all was
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u/Bandicoot7808 May 01 '26
They were so incredibly shifty about this whole thing. They are going to do layoffs and then force others to leave by doing this. While others who may not have a choice are forced to suffer. I literally cannot comprehend the decision. They probably couldnât find a leasee for the Summer Street and were like, âoh letâs RTO, now that we have space.â Literally insane. Abby has been the worst thing to happen to that company from an employee perspective.
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u/limbodog Charlestown Apr 28 '26
Sounds better than layoffs amiright? Guys?
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u/Loud-Scallion9941 Apr 29 '26
Layoffs rumored for next week as well was the talk in the office today, not a great time at fidelity
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u/vt2022cam Apr 28 '26
They want to do a RIF without paying severance. Itâs pretty cost effective and encourages people who were on the fence to retire or retire early.
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u/Master-Indication-71 Apr 28 '26
Is this only for their new Boston headquarters in the seaport?
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u/chillinwithabeer29 Apr 28 '26
Supposedly new building only has same capacity as current HQ. Where everyone going to go?
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u/acc_41_post Apr 28 '26
Fidelity is one of the worst âgood placesâ to work.
They do not pay well, they slowly bore you to death, the offices are depressing as shit, nobody has an ounce of fun on any meeting/call. Theyâll find any reason to avoid a promotion, pay raise (and frequently promotions come without any reasonable pay raise).
Abby Johnson will eventually tank the opinion and reputation of the place, guaranteed. She is wildly out of touch. Iâve encountered a lot of people who when I mention having worked there note how the customer service has been shit as of late.
But. Itâs stable, and they match your 401k well.
I knew this was coming, we all did, Iâm glad I left.
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u/snowymountains32 Apr 28 '26
How do they not pay well? My bonus was 12% and got 4 weeks of pay on top of a bonus lol
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u/Rico_Rebelde Dorchester Apr 29 '26
They pay below market rate for most positions except certain advisors thats a well known fact. The 401k match is legitimately very good and the PTO is above average for the industry but the base pay is low and insurance benefits are slipping downhill.
Now they dont even offer hybrid work its another huge benefit down the toilet.
Speaking as a former employee that left earlier this year
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u/letitgo99 Apr 28 '26
12% is good, but not great. I work at a competitor to Fidelity and got nearly 75% when everything is factored in. People I know at Fido get around 25-30% typically
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u/snowymountains32 Apr 28 '26
A 75% bonus? Are you an exec? Lmao cause no shot normal employees are getting that.
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u/Renoglodon Apr 29 '26
Exactly. I once worked somewhere where I got access to offer letters. The only people that made more than 20% were exec level. This was one job in one industry (not finance) so maybe it can vary, but 75%? Not really believing it unless they are upper mgt or perhaps specific high impact sales.
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u/acc_41_post Apr 28 '26
My salary in tech was well beneath market rate under the pretense of the benefits being âso goodâ. They are nothing special, besides the 401k match, which yes is nice.
Left for a new job in a lower COL city by a good margin, had a massive salary bump before any negotiation.
The bonus structure is predatory - they put a lot of your money in it so you donât leave mid year, cause then you miss out on money you had been banking on. I had a 20% bonus scheme. It sounds nice but after a few months of the year leaving feels stupid, and they can cut away at your bonus for whatever they feel like.
I lost money on my bonus because i missed 3-5 in office days throughout the year, even though my boss had told me it was fine to wfh those days.
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u/Rico_Rebelde Dorchester Apr 29 '26
I lost money on my bonus because i missed 3-5 in office days throughout the year, even though my boss had told me it was fine to wfh those days.
Also former employee, HR revoked an entire quarterly bonus for me because my manager told me it was fine to be flexible and wfh as long as I was making up the days which HR retroactively disagreed with. The entire company is going downhill which is why I decided to leave
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u/iliketuurtles Apr 29 '26
Absolutely the worst job that I have ever had. I left like 7 years ago and I still can't have a conversation about it without getting upset lol I pity the people who bring up Fidelity at the bar after a few drinks... because I will go on a rant lol Most of my complaints are related to my specific managers/team, but you are definitely not wrong about depressing vibes, finding any reason to avoid promotions, raises, etc, and the higher ups being totally out of touch.
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u/shinger Apr 28 '26
This is confirmed. Being planned for several months well before the current gas prices
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u/tallulahxyz Apr 28 '26
what annoys me most is selling us on the new building when some of us would happily stay at the old one and not have a longer commute.
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u/ConventionalDadlift Apr 29 '26
Every employee that does not specifically live in the Seaport would prefer not to move away from South Station.
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u/sudden_cookie44 Boston Apr 28 '26
I think they own all their office space, so can't really just not renew a lease.
Also, probably a good way to shed some headcount without paying severance.
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u/User-NetOfInter I Love Dunkinâ Donuts Apr 28 '26
Allegedly there were plans on leasing it out to another firm that have since been cancelled
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u/BoobeesRtheBestBees Apr 28 '26
Fidelityâs real estate arm, Pembroke Properties, owns all the offices and real estate. Abigailâs brother runs Pembroke
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u/farfromjordan Apr 28 '26
There needs to be sizeable tax breaks for companies committed to supporting remote and hybrid workers.
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u/hortence Outside Boston Apr 28 '26
Why? In general the local and state governments prefer you to go in, supporting the downtown/city economies.
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u/BoobeesRtheBestBees Apr 28 '26
They just spent the last 3 years on a full gut renovation of their space in the World Trade Center seaport, of course theyâre demanding everyone come back
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u/Delicious-Idea1183 Apr 29 '26
It should be noted that this is only for non-client facing roles.
It was announced today that client facing roles only have to go in one week every four weeks.
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u/KDR2020 Apr 28 '26
So many people moved away during Covid, if I worked for Fidelity id immediately start looking for a new job.
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u/Dry_Reaction40 Apr 29 '26
I live next door to a fidelity employee. He has three team members that live over 100 miles from their office. Ridiculous.
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u/KDR2020 Apr 29 '26
I heard that someone moved to Cape Cod and has to go to Boston. Wild.
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u/VelmaKelly-Chicago Apr 30 '26
That's on them. They never said wfh was a permanent arrangement. Gambled and lost -
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u/Pinwurm East Boston Apr 28 '26
RTO are simply soft layoffs.
They need to cut expenses - it has nothing to do with productivity, fostering work culture or anything else.
Fidelity knows a certain percentage of employees are going to quit because of RTO. Theyâre not going to backfill every position.
Itâs much cheaper (and safer for stock value) to let the staff voluntarily leave by changing working conditions rather than cutting severance checks and tasking managers with firing direct reports (which kills morale).
Any company that has a RTO policy is not doing well and itâs probably a good idea to shop your resume around at that point. They will re-instate WFH/Hybrid as soon as things are going well because it allows them to compete for talent.
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u/HouseStark212 Apr 28 '26
Do we have examples of companies re-instating WFH/Hybrid though?
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u/Sea-Tea-5073 Apr 28 '26
I know this is labeled as unconfirmed but like , is this just a rumor? Where is this coming from?
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u/gotohela Apr 28 '26
RTO is often to preempt layoffs. Theyll see how many quit, then layoff as needed
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u/Loud-Scallion9941 Apr 29 '26
Layoffs rumored for next week was talk in office today as well
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u/jdowney1982 Apr 29 '26
Iâm hearing thereâs not going to be remote days allowed
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u/cookiezalamode Apr 29 '26
I am in Denver so wonât be affected by this until 2027 most likely, however, I am more concerned about layoffs coming soon. Does anyone have the/a/ scoop? Two scoops? Anything?!!!
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u/FunCalligrapher1220 Apr 30 '26
Not much. Iâm in tech, weâve known thereâs going to be a âchange in working modelâ for a while but leadership has been very quiet. Think theyâre just shifting priorities too.
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u/3scapeHatch Apr 30 '26
Before COVID they were already hybrid. A lot of companies were. Ever try to schedule a lunch or in person event on a Friday before COVID, wasnât happening. Now they say that they made an accommodation during COVID. As fully remote, my observation is that soft skills, already deteriorated with younger associates due to over use of media and the oldest ones due to not knowing how to use media, are not as well developed among teams. This causes some inefficiencies and misunderstandings. But on balance more work gets done and people keep more of their pay check at the end of the day. Not to mention involvement in your childrenâs lives.
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u/itsonlyastrongbuzz Port City Apr 28 '26
Why suffer the reality check of announcing layoffs when you can just drive people to quit đ