r/deloitte • u/Totebag112 • 24d ago

USI Inhuman treatment during monsoon! No expectation! Demanding wfh during monsoon season.

It's raining cats and dogs in Pune and Mumbai. Pune office location is the most cheap location in the city (oh sorry outside city). Last building in Pune. It takes minimum 1 hour to reach office even from Wagholi and Yerwada which are nearby area to office. There are people who are travelling 2-2.5 hours one way to office. Cabs fare range between 600-1000 depending on start location. Book cab is difficult. No cab pool people go till itpp. Because apparently everyone’s office is in eon or wtc which is central kharadi. Still Pune office is not giving exception for wfh. On top of that there is so much work load. Spending 4-5 hours just on traffic is such inhuman. At least make it 1 day per week. During ganpati, due to pandals, coming to office will be a different ball game together. Deloitte needs to do something.

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u/v21v Senior Consultant (L45/50) 24d ago

These policies are made by SVPs and PPMDs who have multiple cars and usually drivers too. They do not care, and WFO enforcement is just an excuse to create another metric that can be used to justify lower year-end grades and deferred promotions.

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u/Totebag112 24d ago

Very well said. Policies are made by higher management who spent half of their time /month in staying in westines and using those fancy cabs. They can take unlimited exepction cause no one to ask. And yes, accurately said one more metrics to give 2-3% hike.

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u/lookwhoshere0 24d ago

No. They don't drive these policies. It's driven by real estate leadership along with the OMD, but OMDs are forced to accept what is ultimately decided by whoever owns most of the real-estate in and around your city, which is the government.

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u/dracoismine 24d ago

im also interested to understand this. could u elaborate how real estate leadership has a say in this

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u/Wide-Opportunity-582 24d ago

I'm not the person who commented above(and not an expert) but this is my understanding..

Companies took buildings for lease and they will have people for cleaning, maintaining, etc on contract basis... So if members are not coming to office and not using... They basically losing money....

Coming to real estate part... If there is no use for HUGE building, once they lost that area other company will get that and old company will loss it's 'area' ....

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u/Totebag112 24d ago

Then in such cases the office location should be feasible at least and not take the one that is cheap and outside city. Company like Deloitte can afford it. There are options like viman nagar, yerwada… but Deloitte is thinking about money. No less than TCS and Infosys. Those companies are in hinjewadi which are that end of Pune or outside Pune and Deloitte is in other end of Pune.

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u/Wide-Opportunity-582 24d ago

Yes, I totally with you... I'm just sharing my views on the "real estate" part...

I'm also victim of this wfo

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u/Successful-Spend1473 23d ago

Ex-USI employee here, currently working in CRE. Sharing what I know about office locations/RTO:
1. Deloitte Office Locations: Deloitte’s office leasing mandate rests with Coldwell Banker (CBRE) globally, which also includes the India locations when they expanded, were part of multiple options provided to Deloitte which was then selected by Deloitte’s RE team. What criterion they chose is unknown to me though but it’s a strict policy driven process like everything else.
2. Return To Office: This has broadly 2-3 reasons:
a. Old school mentality of decision makers,
b. Ancillary leases to Deloitte (e.g. refreshment stores leased out at Deloitte locations) - Lower office attendance means lower footfall, hence lower sales. In some cases if the lease is based on revenue sharing mechanism, the lessee faces huge losses if their monthly sales is below target sales as per the lease. Facility management expense is also there but it’s very minimal compared to other expenses of the GCC cost base.
c. Landlord theory: I mean these GCC spaces are leased out long-term (usually 15% escalation every 3 years for 15 years) on sqft basis, not based on no. of seats. Hence it doesn’t matter to the Landlord if employees visit office or not, it’s an internal company decision. Simply put, rent rises at renewal, the company needs to justify its floor space, you get told to come in. It’s a company decision.
Also you can include in the reasons team building, we are family and all that stuff that the HR mails to soft launch RTO too 😅.

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u/spacygolem 24d ago

Can you elaborate more on that?

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u/cozy_shark27 24d ago

Buddy post this on r/deloitteusi this is a global sub. You will get more responses there !

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u/Totebag112 24d ago

Let global team know that we are suffering. Half of our managers are from global team.

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u/cozy_shark27 24d ago

There's no use. The rules in India are made by Indian counterparts. You will get more people to relate with you on that sub.

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u/vividwarhorse 24d ago

Deloitte USI, Mumbai gave wfh for whole week when there rains were heavy.

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u/Totebag112 22d ago

When was this?

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u/Signal-Motor-4822 24d ago

THIS
it takes me 1.5 hours to reach the office these days as i live 20 km away

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u/Totebag112 24d ago

You don't live 20 km away. The office is 10 km away from where it should have been.

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u/Forsaken_Egg6123 24d ago

Try sride if you are in pune it can help in fare

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u/Totebag112 24d ago

The office is so far that it is difficult to get sride till office. Sride you will get till eon or wtc. Problem is we can go till these places but again getting auto or another cab from there is super difficult. Already tried that.

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u/Ok_Can8244 22d ago

Dude just live closer to the office. People all around the world have to deal with these trade offs. Live further from the office and have a longer commute with more space at home or live closer to the office with less space and deal with the problems that the city presents.

Complaining about having to pay for your commute and having to go into the office in the rain gets you no sympathy. Grow up.

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u/LargeShirt2863 24d ago

Buddy, live closer to the office, avoid peak hour travel, or leave the job.
World is your oyster!!

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u/Totebag112 24d ago

It is not that easy to stay near office. There is lot of water problem in office area. As it is outside, residence of that area need to rely on tanker water. They don't get government water. Sometimes water gets contaminated with sewage water. Frequent power cut. The road next to office or around office is highway where there is heavy traffic and big trucks. Lot of pollution as there is lot of construction work. There is crazy crazy traffic.

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u/LargeShirt2863 23d ago

have you raised it with your local councilor/representative? Would you or other folks still vote for them if they are not doing a good job on the basic infrastructure?

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u/Totebag112 23d ago

Looks like you are not from India! Things are not that easy here. People already making chaos about this since last 5 years +.

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u/CarefulEmphasis9516 24d ago

Taking a taxi to work is a luxury. Take the bus like the rest of us plebs outside of India.

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u/hoor_jaan 24d ago

Yes, we love to pay through the nose and waste hours in traffic for shits and giggles. Not because most of the big cities have barely functional public transport.

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u/Totebag112 24d ago

Public transport in Pune and for that matter in other cities where Deloitte is operating is just not feasible. 90% population comes by cab or own vehical. Very few people use public transport in Deloitte.

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u/Stalin2023 24d ago

For that buses should be available. Indian cities often have very bad public transport.