What's the work from home policy like at Honeywell?

Top Employee Response

Honeywell recently rescinded (1+ years ago) all work from home, due to a directive from the old CEO. Also, all employees who had arrangements to come into the office for several days a week and WFH the rest of the days due to living far from the office had their arrangements rescinded and were required to come into the office all 5 days/week. I believe this policy is still in effect currently, so no recurring WFH is granted whatsoever. WFH is only allowable on an infrequent basis if your managers and group advocate for you, and you have to notify your manager and HR each time. They track whether you are working from home by your work computer IP address, and follow up if you violate the policy. A lot of people quit the company based on this change. Personally I think it's very backward and was a stupid move for the company to make, even though I didn't even use WFH very often. It was really nice to have that option, but sadly we don't anymore.

The company line is you strictly have to report into the office. However in practice it depends on your manager. While they encourage you to come in, they realize there are times when working from home is necessary. Just don't make it a habit or abuse the privilege.

Until forced to allow it with coronavirus it was non-existant and they can’t sit to push everyone back into the buildings again whether or not you need to be physically on premises

Not sure, but you can NEVER do a job at home as well as you could at work. If you need to do work you should be at your job no exceptions!

There shouldn't be a work at home policy. You should go to work like everyone else. By not going to work you are leaving the company understaffed

We don't have a "Work from Home" Policy. Doing your job means that you must go to the plant.

The official policy is to work in the office