How Did Your Area Handle The Return To Campus Last Year?  What Did You Learn From The Experience (Good and Bad) And What Resources Could You Use This Fall?

• Harder to get around campus.  Many systems involved and things take time to update.
• The process of onboarding new MIT employees takes time i.e. Kerberos set up before getting Covid pass. 
• No longer have the ability to unlock department doors.  Now, need to schedule and unlock doors through IS&T for faculty access and visitors.
• Authorization period wait time is long.  The research application is great, but so much data and it would be helpful to know how to use and organize it for staff.  
• Not much help from central HR to find qualified candidates.  DLCs need to post and hire candidates themselves.
• OSATT alliance management team is working on putting together onboarding materials for new hires.  Draft job descriptions and hire potential candidates. 
• Nature of your work determines if you come in-person or work remote.
• Noticed more confusion and lack of visibility for guests for Kerberos set up.  Told to go to the Atlas Service Center, then bounced to the Accounts team for help. 
• Atlas Service Center staff is struggling to use and understand the new systems.  They're working with IS&T (Mark Silis and Marco Gomes) to troubleshoot issues.
• Disconnect from people when trying to get a quick answer for a question.  Hybrid get in the way of business needs and process. 
• People are more busy.  Staff is doing more work and is tired.
• There is a lost of joy coming in the office and being around your colleagues.  How do we get the joy back into the workplace?  Looking for suggestions.
• Bernadette's team had an employee retreat, which was fun.
• Elizabeth, Provost office is doing a morning breakfast.  Have an event to get staff excited about coming to campus.

AACII Meetings To Be In-person, on Zoom, or Hybrid?

• Room 4-105 is set up as a Zoom room and can do hybrid meetings. 
• In-person meetings will be 90 minutes.
• October meeting will be in-person.  Aim to try to meet in person unless you need to be home i.e. sick.

Topic Suggestions For Upcoming Meetings:

• Recruitment and retention is the topic for the October meeting.
• Mentoring program at MIT.
• Salary, equity and marketplace.  Compensation for salary increases and promotions.  MIT as an educational institution below, middle or above salary market.  (Check with central HR, Compensation team)
• Transparency of data regarding guests at MIT.
• Responsiveness from central offices.
• Onboarding and training of new employees.
• Long wait times for system updates.
• Loss of granular control over door access.