„Wir sind jetzt in Schwierigkeiten.“
https://www.thejournal.ie/aib-staff-must-return-to-the-office-not-remote-hubs-6776830-Aug2025/
Von hesaidshesdead
„Wir sind jetzt in Schwierigkeiten.“
https://www.thejournal.ie/aib-staff-must-return-to-the-office-not-remote-hubs-6776830-Aug2025/
Von hesaidshesdead
15 Kommentare
Tell me you’re culling staff without telling me you’re culling staff.
Most of us recognise that working from the office is more productive.
Working in an office is such an antiquated way of working. I see it pushed a lot by older managers who think their younger staff aren’t collaborating because they don’t hear them on the phone – meanwhile the younger staff are continuously chatting away on Slack or Teams.
Don’t really understand the logic of what AIB is doing.
If it’s about culling staff, the majority of the people you think they would prioritize to compete against modern neobanks and fintechs (software devs, data scientists, data engineers, etc..) are mostly young and have to commute from outside Dublin due to housing supply.
The only people not largely affected consist of mostly middle-aged AIB lifers that bought their Dublin house in the 80s-2000s and are more likely to just be filling a seat doing busy work. They ain’t going anywhere, they’re practically unemployable except to another Irish bank.
It’s already hard enough to retain the former group because they pay shit wages and the career progression sucks. This is just gonna accelerate them leaving.
My own theory is that AIB is responsible for a large commercial real estate portfolio : a market that hasn’t recovered since COVID and is making lenders worried. I think this could just be a desperate attempt to stir up a narrative that more companies should be going RTO and they should be availing of that sweet ,sweet vacant office space.
Ultimately this is a failing of urban policy. Workers wouldn’t be facing this anxiety if we lived in a competently designed country that favored a mixed use of close proximity mid/high-rise apartments and office blocks.
Surprisingly bringing people back to the office after the gov sold its last tranche of shares. No coincidence there folks
„We’re in trouble“ – Yes you absolutely are !
I’m lucky in that we’re still 1 day a week in the office but slowly but surely i am seeing, within friend groups, people going back 3-4 days per week. In one place, their attendance is linked to their yearly performance review which impacts their salary increase.
There’s been a few people in our place taking the piss but thankfully it hasn’t resulted in a sweeping generalized return so that managers can more actively monitor you.
Seriously, if you moved a hundred miles from your workplace in the expectation that you could home work forever without having a contractual right to do so then you took a big risk. A risk that for some is now coming back to bite them in the ass.
Really shitty by AIB but you should really make sure your contract is amended to be work remotely or some hybrid arrangement. Otherwise they’re letting you WFH from their discretion.
Why did govt blather on a lot about wfh and new ways of working if they can roll it back with ease..
Awful company to be honest, having worked there in the past for many years. They like to think of themselves as cutting edge and progressive but definitely not the case.
All bank staff are in trouble. Let’s be honest, legacy banks survive solely on the basis of older people who dont want to change banks plus people with mortgages. With revolut & co slowly entering the mortgage space, legacy banks will likely die out within a decade. All physical branches will be shut down because they’re simply an unnecessary expense.
AIB was honestly one of the worst places I ever worked. Really, really almost unbelievably bad like. By the time I was laid off just before the pandemic (in the same meeting I was informed of this, my manager asked if I wanted to contribute to the branch christmas party fund – because we had to pay for that ourselves obviously – I told him to fcuk off) I hand in heart couldn’t wait to see the back of the place.
Used to work in a part of the AIB group. When it was two days in the office no one would show up anyway. There were no repercussions. Reckon in reality this means it’s just another day they won’t be in the office when they should
These media bits are like a dunning process. What is the thejournal’s own policy with WFH?
When they repeat foreign propaganda do they fly the journalists over to their office first?
Our office had a good few hundred in it and it was absolutely packed pre-COVID.
Same building is there but you’d be hard pressed to find more than 20 people in there now.
I had my contract changed during COVID which gives me some piece of mind, but I know they could try change that if the powers that be take a notion like AIB.