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I'm holding out for 80085 years. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
You needed a new clutch and turbo before 120K? Yeah, you are the reason your "maintenance" bill is so high. This isn't an ICE issue, this is a driver issue. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
There was a company doing that to older Rebbits, original bugs, vans, Westfallas, etc.
Called them Voltswagen. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I liked being able to see how charged the battery was from my phone - normally to justify a coffee after dessert in a restaurant because the car's got another 15 minutes until it's full :) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
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I wish they threw their billions at me the same way lol | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Silly human, you aren’t a robot. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
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just a staggering coincidence, right? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
and no one would deserve it more. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
Lol, did we really need a Gartner study to prove this | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
code that comes out of india is notoriously awful | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
I’ve worked at the elbow of more than one executive. Many of them have a near religious belief in the *need* for in office work. I can personally vouch for one ordered their labor data group to juice up a metric that showed people were more productive in office - didn’t matter how stupid the underlying math was, just some set of metrics that “line goes up” in office. This was to be used as a cudgel to pummel the labor unions.
You know it ended up egregiously bad when the board removed them for mismanagement. Year after year of bleeding talent to the point multiple VIPs could no longer get sensible answers to inquiries. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
Never trust a statistic you didn't make yourself | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
Wait until all the workers don't get along because they are all deciders and the problem went from a smaller group of middle managers to 6x larger group of IC who don't sit in the alignment meetings.
Then decide if it's a paradise or not | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
I suspect this is correlated because companies who are cheap typically don’t see the value in spending money on good technology for their users. Thus, a very visible consequence to a lay off is a security breach. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
That’s also true I’d agree. I’ve worked with hundreds of people and have a handful id call geniuses. But boy to your point some of them have wildly outsized impact in many ways.
You can lose someone and it might be a case not of “how many people need to do their job to understand this problem going forward” but “will we ever know how to debug that going forward” | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Yeah it doesn’t hurt my feelings!
They’re paying me to fuckign party now, when Covid happened and they sent us all home for 2.5 years I kept a steady state of imposter syndrome that kept me busting my ass and actually made me produce more than ever. And my mental health was better during those times too.
Now I gotta do a lot of shit like coffee breaks, walk breaks, lunch breaks, bullshit about sports breaks, etc just to maintain the same level of good mental health.
It’s all good baby. They made it all a joke and I’m laughing with them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
It was his only regret. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
This is a fucking perfect reply, legit. When our company, a few weeks ago mandated RTO 5 days a week, the prevailing theory is they are trying to do layoffs without calling it layoffs. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
The fortune 100 company that I recently quit working for shortly after they changed WFH policy from 4 days per week to 1, gathered us all up to encourage us to maintain our WFH productivity boost as we return to office | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I hate it. It takes months for me to find a decent candidate for my openings because this isn’t a software town but the (remote) ceo doesn’t believe in remote work, and the (remote) investors don’t either. We’re 100% holding ourselves back. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
CEOs don't care about the talent.
They can pay less for less qualified people. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
From my personal experience, those impromptu conversations are highly outweighed by the unwanted desk drop-ins. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
They can take my spot. I'm actually leaving a remote job for a hybrid one.
I loved working remotely when I already knew my coworkers from working with them in-person. My current job is the only one I've had that has always been 100% remote, but the lack of camaraderie and bad communication has kinda poisoned the well. So many issues as a result of poor communication and just not really understanding each other. I've been lucky at previous companies- remained friends with my coworkers and have gone to (or been in) each other's weddings. One of them recruited me to the place where he works, so it'll be good to have that level of camaraderie again but also the flexibility of wfh 2-3 days a week.
Remote works really well for employees who already know each other, but it's really rough on new employees and you might never get a proper team dynamic going. So it's awkward especially if the company is planning to grow in the future. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
You’d be surprised how many very talented devs with over 20 years of experience are getting paid under 75k (before taxes) in the United States. And many of them would take less if it meant working 100% remote plus flex.
I think they might actually be getting paid more in EU (depending on which country). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Not just about this either. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I’ve noticed this and I think it’s probably because code is all written in abbreviations of English. If it’s not your first language that’s going to be more difficult. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
No, when someone points out a fact about the past, that does not automatically make their argument an "appeal to tradition". For me to be committing that fallacy, I would have to be building my argument on the idea that the old view ("having to work at the office is not abuse") is correct merely BECAUSE it is the old view.
But I'm saying nothing of the sort. I think "working in the office does not constitute abuse" because I know what all of the words in that sentence mean. My very simple argument is nothing more complicated than that. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
They also said people work harder when they they’re being watched.
The inference there being, people do not work as hard when they aren’t.
(But the Hawthorne Effect is nothing new) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
My company is currently doing this to various departments (not mine-yet). So far, only the most experienced and loyal employees are quitting. I think they feel like it’s a slap in the face that they’ve been doing well remotely for so long and now they’re suddenly not trusted to wfh. With their proven track record of quality work, they can easily move on to better roles. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Executive here. Last thing I want is a bunch of employees in one spot. I like WFH too, ya know. I’d rather figure out remote work and hire the best people regardless of location. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Just because they are essential doesn't mean they're skilled.
Words have meaning.
Any 14 year-old can bags at a grocery store; trying to argue that all essential workers are performing skilled labor just to make people feel better is a torturous abuse of the English language. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Return to office mandates were mostly just passive layoffs while high performers/valuable employees would often be granted exceptions.
The bigger agenda at play with the return-to-office mandates is coming from pressure from institutional investors and stakeholders who have large stake and equity in the corporate real estate market. Demand for corporate real estate is plunging quickly as existing leases expire and many office building leasting still remain at <25% capacity post covid. If they don't get those capacities increased within the next 5 years or so, there is going to be a huge market collapse.
If they were smart, rather than trying to pull strings and exploit their leverage to get employees to return to office, they should be mass converting corporate real estate into residential units. Though I suspect they also have their hands in the housing market as well and mass converting vacant corporate units into residential units would likely pop the overinflated housing market bubble. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
My executive team was mad that they have to go into the office, so now we all have mandates + they're getting really mad about anyone WFH. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Is he internal communications? Those guys are actually useful. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
This is Gartner, they have a lot of influence among upper management/C-suite types | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Executives clinging to RTO mandates are basically throwing darts at a board blindfolded, hoping 'productivity' is the bullseye. Data be damned if it doesn't fit their narrative. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
A true hero. /s Imagine if we told children to aspire to this. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Might as well, or did? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
If we’re all honest, productivity goes up when work from home done. Think about it, people’s minds are more attuned to the task, not thinking about how every day they have to take their kid to daycare super early and then not get to see them super late.
Or, every day dreading that long commute to and from work, in addition to being disgusted with the scenario I just described above.
As the older generation ages out, I think work from home will become more readily acceptable.
The larger issue is what to do with the real estate or community workplaces. I be always thought that they should be turned into either student housing, whereby that’s an instant cash infusion from the local college/university, or turn the buildings into apartments.
There’s just no need for a lot of workplaces any longer. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Execs don’t even care about following laws like ADA, I doubt they care about talent risks from this. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
You are assuming employees who shows up to work are more effective and does more work than employees who work for home.
Which is not only an assumption, but also wrong assumptions. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Execs love gartner tho | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Also pressure from governments, the executives and politicians own a lot of the real estate and they need to make bank! And of course us peasants can't have things like dreams.
Problem is these executive a*holes also don't have a life so everyone's miserable now! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
The data is in: Return-to-Office mandates are implemented specifically to shed talent.
It's a headcount reduction activity, not one that's geared at *actually getting people in the office*. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
While true, the people at the top don't care. They only see expenses going down, the actual loss in productivity and domain knowledge is the problem for the down-stream managers to figure out. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Good middle management is the best, my bosses always took the heat from me especially when I was a fresher and I am just learning to appreciate that.
Problem is too many micromanaging megalomaniacs exist in middle management giving rise to the useless manager stereotype imo | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Having met a number of executives face-to-face, I believe they believe that employees will piss off if not monitored constantly. Because that’s what they fear they would do without an office to go to and obligations to meetings.
I half-kid.
Honestly, I think most execs are out of touch with labor, don’t share the same values, etc. they see their own work needs as in-office, because they don’t have anything to do other than interface with people. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I kept our entire organization functional during the pandemic, and even blew our kpis out of the water. As of right now, I'm looking at somewhere between 130 and 150% of goal for the year. I'm leaving because not only do they want to RTO at least 3 days a week, apparently all of that gained me exactly zero trust from leadership and I'm now being forced to do things that are straight up unethical.
Today was my 7-year anniversary. I also applied to another job and I won't stop until I'm out of here.
I'm literally the top performing employee in the entire agency, and I have been willing to work for much less than market rate because this work is really meaningful to me. It's nonprofit work so things are a little different.
They can't give a single reason why RTO is a good idea other than they just _want to._ Not only that, we're moving into a new and smaller office even management won't have private offices. Despite literally 90% of my job being confidential work that even many other employees can't see. Like 70% of my meetings involve confidential topics that can't be shared across the agency. I've been asked to "just figure it out." And I'd rather leave. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
They'll just use your refusal to RTO as a reason to terminate you the second they feel you're not needed.
That being said they'll terminate you the second you're not needed no matter what so doesn't matter either way I guess!
Wtf is wrong with this world!! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
The real question is, are the talent risks worth the property taxes | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
During the pandemic, employees had incredible mobility - they could find another job *incredibly easy* because everyone was hiring remotely. Employers didn't like that a little bit of the power shifted towards the employee, so all the bigger employers (including mine, which has been remote-first well before the pandemic) are cracking down on remote workers so that the power is firmly placed back in the hands of employers. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
You have to look at it this way, hackers are constantly trying to break into systems no matter what. The type, methods and sophistication of the attacks also vary over time.
Nobody can predict or protect against every vulnerability but a more capable work would have better knowledge and be able to configure the system to be better protected.
When you remove the person you probability of an attack going through is increased, the attacks were always coming it's just that probability of getting through has increased | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
it’s business 69 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I work in an office that's now a hybrid team. Operations for a university, my boss is fully remote (as well as the last one), one person is fully remote, and the rest of us have a lot of flexibility.
I was actually kind of a holdout, since I live close and like being in the office for doorway inquiries (my role primarily involves fixing weird data integration issues these days and I'm good at asking the right questions), but I've been leaning the other way.
We have a workforce that has never been better trained for remote work out of absolute necessity, and even in-office, I've found myself using Zoom and Teams. I can screen-share and interactively walk through a technical issue with someone on the fly in an hour, versus talking through a verbal request, two or three e-mails clarifying the issue, and two or three more being sure we're on the same page after work, timeline often being days if there's a mismatch with availability.
Meanwhile, that one working call either resolves the issue, or we have the 'doorway talk' at the end, rather than the start, and typically ends with knowing what needs done that hasn't already happened. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
But number go up so *pats back* | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Until your planes don’t sell anymore… | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Extroverts are a cancer only being the introverts down.
God damn social parasites!
/S lol | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Most rto mandates avoid claiming anything about productivity because they know that often they didn't have the data to back it and worse there's lots of research to suggest that remote workers are more effective. They tend to rationalize with fuzzier concepts that are harder to quantify or falsify. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Interesting. Did he say how it didn't work? That's an incredibly vague answer. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I remember being in the office and all the people who would just wander around talking with people at their desks or chatting each other up in the hall way for what seemed like forever. Then they'd go take a smoke break, which had to be done off the property. So then they're walking away for who knows how long. Then maybe they squeeze in a couple of hours of work out of the day. Their boss doesn't care because he's 6 states away with another part of the team and he's got other people he never sees in 3 other states. All his meetings are virtual and people get on individually at their own desks even if they could get a conference rooms. Because the conference rooms cameras and mics are garbage and you can't ever tell who is talking with that echo. It's like all the people pushing RTO got amnesia about the realities of working in an office or just were never plugged into what people really did in the office because they were always at off sites anyway. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
That's not an enthusiast it's a idiot... Generally most professionals ARE also enthusiast in that space. An enthusiast would know exactly why not to do something like that.
The only real problem is it's very hard to tell who's a real enthusiast and who is actually just a hobbyists in most things. Which is the upside to professionally trained people who you know "should" have a base line amount of knowledge. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
There is a lot of status that you can't display working remote. You don't have a reserved parking spot by the door for people to see. An exec might sit at the end of a table, but there isn't similar clear status in a remote meeting. Some of the allure of exec status didn't translate in a remote setting. Petty narcissism is part of the motivations for some execs.
You probably can't dismiss how many return to office pushes often precede layoffs. Some might argue it is a coincidence, but it seems hard to believe that there was no internal discussion of layoffs if numbers didn't improve at the same time they announced return to office pushes. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I don't think iv ever seen a unmitigated disaster that wasn't fun to fix at least... So there's also a silver lining! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
From what i have seen, companies got bloated during covid and forcing return to office gives the company basis for dismissal. Unfortunately while this does work, you lose a lot of talent as other companies are becoming more attractive as they offer better home office ratios. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I remember once having a hiring manager straight up making sure I got real bills to pay. He didn't want random college kids that didn't really need the job because they lived with their parents. Some managers prefer that because they know people who need to income generally won't quit on a whim. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Ahh there's your problems... Windows... Microsoft has a sans fun policy.
The real fun is when you start to deal with BSD systems set up by someone with no clue and all of the cable runs are unlabeled... No I'm not traumatized. Nope. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Gartner publishes a lot of reports that execs treat seriously. Sometimes too seriously where they will buy whatever is in the top corner of Gartner's Magic Quadrant without much skepticism. Gartner calling RTO policies counterproductive is something that execs realistically will read. Whether they take it to heart may be another matter. Many are just intentionally trying to raise churn. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
A significant percentage of RTO mandates precede layoffs. They give people who want out a month or so to find another job and then they start announcing layoffs. Hard to think that is a mere coincidence. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
This. Execs do read Gartner's reports. If I tell an exec the benefits of moving to vendor X they may be meh. If you tell them it is a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant though many will be more persuaded. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
In the IT field they 100% are leaving. I'm in the Federal Government and work in tandem with some IT Contractors. The super high-speed guys on our end and their end have all left for full remote positions when they took it away from us.
I'm still fighting it with leadership trying to show them metrics and data that performance has gone down, we can't keep folks, and have trouble hiring people when they find out we don't do *any* telework. Leadership doesn't care at all. They all still telework but want us all in the office because whatever reason of the day is. I've countered at least five reasons they've tried to give with reality, and they just change the reason for why we can't telework.
It's infuriating dealing with people who don't deal in reality and just how they feel about things. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Made funnier because at least some of their subsidiaries lost talent due to RTO mandates. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
One thing that people like to ignore, is that top talent is not a homogeneous group. There are plenty of top performers who have no problems complying with top down instructions. It's not a given that top performers are automatically rebellious by definition.
Secondly, execs know the people who they need to cave to. RTO mandates don't really affect employees who have been designated as key employees. Their managers are simply instructed to look the other way if those folks don't comply, and they'll contrive an excuse to justify it.
RTO is a crappy move nonetheless, but the execs can shape the policy however they want to retain the people they really want to retain. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Everybody in this thread will happily ignore that the productivity and effectiveness in this report is entirely self-reported. Of course people will say that the thing they *want* to do is the best.
*"Nearly two-thirds of employees* **report** *they work best in a remote environment."* | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Yes and we need to question the govt for that | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Isn’t it just a few days since we saw a headline about many executives hoping that return to office mandates would result in attrition? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
You're a rotating piece of metal like everyone else. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
You really went there, didn't you! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
You: "I've figured it out!"
Boss: "Oh yeah!? What's the plan?"
You: "This is my 2-week notice."
Boss: *shock* | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
"Thanks for all the extra productivity during that time where you were allowed to skip your commute, save money on gas, and tend to your personal needs. Now that we're effectively cutting your pay, will you please keep up the extra hard work?"
Followed by, "Oh no 'quiet quitting' is awful!" | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
If it's the same people my company contracts to over there it's no wonder. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
> The only way she could appear valuable to the company was by physically hanging out in it.
Despite the economic reasons that I think are driving most of these decisions, I think this has a lot more to do with it than any of them will ever admit. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
The amount of distractions and annoyances in an office setting is bonkers, too. I also didn’t have anyone on my direct team at the same building so I went to a cubicle in order to be in teams meetings all day | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
>cause of traffic
It's you, you're traffic. You're never in traffic, you always are traffic. Everyone else is trying to go somewhere, just like you.
>how many people would be off this backed up highway if “Return to Office” was not a thing
Look at how freely every roadway flowed in June of 2020. That's your answer. If you're driving between 7am and 10am, or between 3pm and 7pm, then at least half (I'd wager 3/4) of the other people on the road are doing the same thing you are: going to work. And probably half of them don't need to because they could work from home at least some days/hours. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Even if we make that assumption completely blind, how fast and how numerous will those jobs come? Jobs come when people are willing to pay someone to do a thing. They do not materialize out of thin air immediately because someone wanted one really hard. Banking our societal stability on the thing around a blind corner being puppies and rainbows and cotton candy is not a sensible strategy. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
The only way this works is supposing there's infinite demand, in reality price goes up because there aren't many options so the options we do have are more valuable. Want to lower house prices? Make more affordable housing. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-14-06 |
I have been on two companies executive teams since 2020 and I watched about 12 directors arguing about this topic. The setup is simple:
Insecure and/or weak managers hate home office because they lose direct control. That is all there is.
The confident, capable managers with a good team cohesion were always like:
"who cares where my people are, they will deliver what they promised even from outer space".
And the weak ones were:
"Yeah, but how do I know whether they are working or just watching Netflix all day".
This was the gist of it. Every. Single. Time. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-14-06 |
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I have tried out black magic fusion (part of resolve) as an alternative for AE. It is possible, but very different. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I love lightroom, I am hoping for a good alternative, and I think I will dive into dark table eventually. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
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Compare this philosophy towards AI with Apple’s. What a difference. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
My company of 300,000+ employees will be starting the rollout this month. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Would you rather have Windows 11 or Windows Me? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
I hope hackers act a fool. Hell regular civilians should act a fool. Overload their goddamn servers with data. Act a fool. *chooses violence* *rocks back and forth like the Joker*
Oooo wait…. Remember that virus we all caught from Napster that duplicates every song … someone necromancer that mfer. Holy shit. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Just like every other Microsoft "feature". | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
Forget privacy, forget personal freedom, here comes Microsoft to monetize your personal work, your designs, your correspondence, your bank balance, your desires in pursuit of their bottom line .... well, the second word is OFF, i'm downloading Mint LINUX now, regressing to windows 10 FTTB and dual boot until i can doing everything in Mint. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-13-06 |
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