United ain't a charity. Cutting costs where a company is having financial trouble is something that every well-run company does. I expect layoffs to happen soon. I think this work from office policy is a soft layoff in some way, cause some people will be unwilling/unable to work from office.
Ending WFH in less than a month when there's no space for them to work in the office? Can only mean one thing. Would love to be a fly on the wall to see what happens on June 1 if they don't attempt to retrofit the offices to have more people in them considering the space was reduced.
If productivity suffered, I'd think that has more to do with the fact that in conjunction with working from home, people were also going through a worldwide, life-altering event.
So true.
Spoiler alert - it didn't suffer. That's why most companies over expanded and now are blaming people not being in the office as to why they're not as profitable. Not the ridiculous linear targets they set and will not hit.
Yeah, we've all been concerned with the wfh policy and tidiness of the IT dept. Lost count of the threads.
It did not. A lot of people went in with agendas to prove that productivity suffered but came away with no it didn't and employees are happier as a result.
What did you think rotten from the top down means?
It means focussing on the bottom level at this point is utterly ridiculous. It's not even based on anything apart from, "that's how we do it at INEOs". Also the top level won't be in the office anyway, they'll be fecking off to Monaco when they feel like it.
Whilst I don't know the inner workings of this decision, I'm not sure it's "wrong" on the face of it.
INEOS have done whole audit of the club and have identified areas where we need to improve and change. Clearly the WFH policy was one that they felt had a negative impact and needed to change. They also looked at how many employees we have compared to other top clubs and want to cut that down. The club has been run like shit for too long. We're long overdue a shake up from top to bottom. I welcome anything that improves us as a club.
How much experience do you have in changing the culture of massive, corporate organisations?
Maybe he is a ruthless cnut but he's not scared to make the necessary changes to improve us. The culture at the club has been shite for the last decade. We've become a bloated club with no unity and direction. Never would've happened under SAF and Gill.
Whys it fecking matter to you what the office staff working arrangements are? Its bizarre that people criticise others on how to run their business.
Pretty sure Dan Ashworth and Omar Berrada will be based in Manchester they'll be running the business.
It’s true. But who cares, they will go on with this process and I am behind them. The house needs to be cleaned up.
Fair play mate, I’m just getting anxious is all.
Yup.
I've got no issue with it, per se. I'm just expecting this standard to be applied across all levels equally. And that remains to be seen this summer.
Absolutely this.
At a top outfit, everyone and everything reflects the standard being set (because they have bought into the standard themselves).
It’s all fine setting the standards at the lower level as long as he does the same for the manager and players, if not it’s just poor form.
Qft indeed. You don't whip an organization back into shape without making some drastic changes.
The tidiness one I don't really care about, it seems a weird thing to focus on, but I'm not against making sure you don't work in a shithole.
There's nothing wrong with your second point of trimming the fat of a big company. Dressing it up as a WFH policy being a problem is just stupid, because you'll also lose good employees as well as the ones you think are taking the piss. Not every WFH advocate is lazy and everyone who goes to the office is a harder worker.
Funnily enough in my old company, was a big part of my role with the consulting base. Just to clarify no where near the size of United, but still a big publicly traded fintech.
Sure, but like with every exec, I guarantee they'll get special dispensation and will be out the office a lot of the time.
Great tweet by Muppetiers. Obviously this sucks for those involved, but needs must to write the wrongs of the past and fans should be cautious about labelling INEOS, even in jest.
I started working for United back in 2013. I honestly could not believe how low the standards were there.
Well, Club's soul was sold to a bunch of American satanists, in all but name back in 2005. There's no point looking for off the field virtue in a monolith football club any more, short of a the kind of radical recalibration of our broader politics for which there's no hope any time immanently, but which would include majority fan ownership and the rest - all we can lobby for is that the club represents that 'ethos' in its playing style and promotion of local youngsters. The rest is just hoping the Glazer stench is finally purged by someone marginally less malign, (almost) equally horrible though his actual politics and business practices might be.
I don't really care too much about the calling out of tidiness of an IT dept. People shouldn't work in a shithole as it's a shared space, but it's relatively small fry when you think of the wasteage and mismanagement much higher - no matter how tidy their offices were (probably paid to be cleaned regularly).
Why... Hybrid work is hardly the reason for our downfall. Some weird priorities. I'd rather hear his plans on our management and player recruitment than how he's after the workplaces of our IT guys or ending backroom staff's hybrid work routine.
It works for most I know. This sounds exactly like the decision an old man would make that's out of touch with modern working conditions. Completely unnecessary.
It’s not spurious grounds though is it. Highly qualified professionals have conducted a review. They brought in an independent third party to audit the club. These moves are based on the findings.
I mean, he is an old rich man who has history of making decisions to reduce worker benefits, way worse than this too. Not really a suprise.
Why doesn’t this surprise me at all. I am happy Ineos are getting things done.
