What's the work from home policy like at Charles Schwab?

Pre-pandemic, work from home was largely non-existent in a formal sense. Some teams/managers/roles supported it, but it was more exceptional than embraced. Remote workers were largely locked out of management and team leadership. Post-pandemic, it’s chaotic. They want to embrace more remote work, but have communicated that so poorly it’s made a mess of things. Many of the old school managers & directors hate not being in the office and were lining up to go back. But lots of employees are happier & more productive at home and are reluctant to lose commute time for no gain. To top off the chaos it’s been unclear who decides what roles/teams can work from home going forward. Will managers decide? HR? Employees? Who sets policies and how will the be consistently applied? How will remote work affect your career path? A lot of people have left because Schwab can’t seem to communicate clearly in any of that, while other companies are communicating & empowering remote work.

Straight up archaic in most departments, some have no flexibility while others do. Each director sets their team’s work from home policy. If your director doesn’t trust your team, you won’t be permitted to work from home at all.