Lloyds Banking Group reviews

Our CEO is making a terrible decision to enforce 2 days a week into the office and removing compressed working, after over 3 years of working from home and making record profits for the bank. Unfortunately it appears he is surrounded by yes men and no one with the authority seems to be challenging this. I have worked compressed hours for my entire time in the bank, during covid I have achieved new jobs, all of this makes zero sense.

Worked for LBG for 15+ years and never felt more micro managed as right now. Extremely strict hybrid policy, 2 days in the office per week (despite that fact those 2 days are sat on teams calls next to people are aren’t even in your team as you book a desk and pot luck where is available!) if you can’t make it in the office for any reason including illness, train strikes, caring responsibilities, burst pipe at home, you’re expected to make up the time by coming in on other days of the week, even if that means losing your train fare (as booked ahead for cheaper fares) more expense, time wasted commuting for zero reason. They spout about ‘collaboration’ in the office but this very rarely happens as your teams are based all over the country. You’re monitored by card swipe data and managers have a dashboard which tells them the current percentage you are at for the rolling 4-12 weeks, bit like the attendance register at school! If they could just explain to us what the point of all this is for, it may help us to understand, but no one knows and it’s all everyone talks about rather than focussing on the job at hand and then there is the the fear and rumours it will increase from 2 days to 3 days which is anxiety inducing and you just don’t know what’s coming next! I’ve always felt like LBG was an employer that cared about their people, I always felt proud to work for LBG and I felt trusted, but all I feel now is I’m treated like a child, micro managed and that they could not care less that life is much more miserable now the way things are. Any 5 star reviews on here have probably been posted by senior management as per instruction to get score back up, I can’t believe anyone is genuinely that happy with how things are currently!