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Yup. All the big tech firms in their RTO journey exempted everyone who they wanted around. They really didn’t care about the rest, but they knew they a higher head count than needed. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The issue I’ve always had with execs is that they generally want a very simple “top level” idea of the problem, and don’t really care to listen to any detail, making their decisions on this superficial veneer of what is going on.
This loses all of the nuance and complexity and usually ends with them making the most bleedingly obvious conclusion, because to them it is super simple. But if they took the time to actually listen and understand the other factors at play beyond “how much is this going to cost, how much money will this make us, how long will it take?” Then they might make better decisions. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That other shit is making major bank.
I’m in bourbon country. The demand is just high. So there’s room for other labels and the craft distiller market really took off a few years ago.
It’s all “generic bullshit”.
They sell a fucking story. It’s Stanley cups for men who wanna stand around and talk about how expensive the bottle was they’re having a sip from. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
15-60 minutes was generous unfortunately. In some cases it was hours. The sad reality was that team members were not in meetings and it wasn’t lunch time.
I do reply pretty quickly myself. The majority of it is in response to alerts/triage. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That’s what I hate the most about RTO is that I just get less done and feel less productive because it is less productive.
I like the work I do. It’s just so much harder to get it done in the office. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
It's still the right answer. I know people who are independent consultants and none of them would have any business if not for the contacts they made while working regular jobs for a long time. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This is so true. In one of my last jobs, I was in a hostile standoff. Leadership hated me because I was a squeaking wheel, but didn’t risk firing me because I knew where the cemetery was and could quick identify who buried what. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
>when Trump literally got convicted for multiple felonies (34) related to paying the NY Post to hide the Stormy Daniels story for him.
The NY Post had nothing to do with the Trump convictions. Why are you lying? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The problem is that employee aptitude goes both ways.
Managers underestimate the value better employees bring to the company, *but* employees overestimate the bare minimum competency that’s needed for a business to still function.
Is there money left on the table by losing the best and the brightest? Absolutely. Will this in any way impact the compensation of top managers? Absolutely not. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
My office had one guy who retired after we were called back for 2 days a week. But he had been ‘threatening’ to retire for a few years before covid, so really I think the WFH prolonged his employment.
Ultimately, WFH didn’t turn employees into sandbags. If you were a sandbag before WFH then you are a sandbag with WFH. Managers need to get better at firing terrible employees. Caveat: I work for the government. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I'm a remote employee but our head office has recently demanded 2 days in-office for people located nearby with some weird 'musts'. Except people don't have dedicated work spaces so they're hotelling/hot desking. And they've mandated that all teams including remote resources have quarterly in-office meetings. There aren't enough meeting rooms for this. I'm also on 2 teams and due to the lack of space, I'll have to make separate trips for each team on-site. At the cost of roughly ~$2500 USD per trip. I asked my boss if the company was really okay with pissing away $20k USD per year just to get me on-site and they didn't have much of a response other than agreeing it's really not necessary. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I suppose it is because many managers do not know what their employees actually do and cannot use the productivity tools available to them to properly gauge how well their employees are performing. Managers may only understand that time in the seat and a spreadsheet on the screen = productivity. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Relatedly, FTC is banning non-compete clauses.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Engineers are notorious for ignoring the human element in systems. You would get a lot of stuff that only works if people behave rationally (which they never will) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I get in at 7 so the badge reader sees me
I leave at 11:30 and work from home the rest of the day
I really don’t do anything constructive those first 4 hours of my workday.
It is what it is | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
And they are horrible people who deserve to go to hell. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
My company got acquired, saw what people were getting paid, and immediately started reviewing "market rates" and adjusting pay accordingly for fear of losing people. I work in tech, with business facing software developed in house. There's no googling how to do something with this software, so losing knowledgeable people is a massive blow. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I graduated at the height of the great recession and wanted a stable job for like 10 years before I found one. Basically permanently lower income than I would be otherwise which is cool. It was awesome delivering pizza with a 4 year degree. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
We do have SLAs with external entities. NOT with individuals. That would be the micromanagement that people are complaining about with RTOs.
If SLAs were in danger, the issues were shifted to a more responsive team member. Not often for external, but does happen. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Because they're so disconnected from what a real "average day" for an employee is.
Errands? Families? Obligations besides work?
These things simply either don't exist for the people making RTO mandates or make enough money to not care as the compensation is worth it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
At this point there isn't really that much left to innovate, and companies are bloated and only ever thinking of things in terms of customer data and market share. Too many are in the "too big to fail" phase where psycho CEOs reign and pay themselves way too much money while not delivering anything of worth. Like whatever bad consequences happen from laying off 70000 people or whatever take way longer to actually affect the company in a measurable way or even sink it. A small startup can live and die on a small number of decisions and consequences, a Wells Fargo or Google or Amazon has to go through like a decade of the worst shit ever to actually be in any danger of dying.
Hence why these people have so much room to reign on complete cynicism rather than innovation and desire for improvement. Look at Microsoft and Windows 11 for example, their strategy for growth there is like that of an abusive husband. Nothing that much better at all, but features missing, threats on all sides how bad shit is gonna happen if you don't jump on board, plus the creepy Recall AI shit. And yet this probably won't affect MS for years even if it all completely backfires. They legit have to do the dumbest fucking things for 5 years straight before they get to the point they'd maybe change the CEO or something.
This kind of environment is just heaven for these MBA parasites, they love to fly in with their 1800s economic liberalism shit policies that gut the company and the goodwill far better people have built, pay themselves 50 million dollars per year and then fuck off. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
When you’re a manager at a poorly managed company, the gain is optics is more important than the gain in productivity.
The truth is most companies didn’t invest in teaching their managers how to manage remotely. And most managers didn’t try to learn.
If you manage others and didn’t develop skills with a tool that helps keep projects on track and accountable while working remotely: you goofed yourself. You should be replaced. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Jesus christ, stop with the TLA already! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Are you a junior though?
I feel like remote teaching/mentorship is just really hard. Some people can do it but most can’t. I’ve been remote most of my career, I was homeschooled, my dad was a remote tech worker. I’ve also participated in open source software where there isn’t an office. I’m the kind of person who can thrive as a remote junior.
But most juniors I’ve mentored are often not like me at all. They are used to in person learning and socialization. I think perhaps occasional work retreats or hybrid could work. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
You are a bad person. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Sometimes high performers are a threat to their bosses careers. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Went from being Jr to Sr in three years at my first job out of college. Nope out real quick. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This part exactly | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
C-syit morons who see employees as interchangeable and don't understand the consequences this entire thread is pointing out are absolutely the target audience of AI.
AI does not understand shit and often gives repetitive and/or incorrect answers. It is not smarter than even the dumbest employee they can't get rid of.
Hell it's probably partially trained on that dumb employee's activities. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
What really gets me.
"Use automation to be more efficient. PS, Corporate Security has locked down all the computers so you literally can't install or use any sort of automation tools." | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I've been working as a dishwasher at Denny's from home for the past 2 years, they drop off the dirty dishes in the morning and pick them up around 2pm. My apartment manager hates it, had to replace my washing machine twice allready in the past 6 months | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Gone are the days when a manager was expected to be able to do every task one of their workers does. Most of my managers don’t have a clue. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
wow thats insane. still how is a janitor gonna do it ? they gonna pick up all the tiles and bring them home ? gonna take toilets home ? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
It's called "brightsizing", when all the bright ones leave. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I have seen it happen a couple of times, and I am not even in the tech sector. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
You can thank [Thomas Midgley Jr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Legacy) for both leaded gasoline and CFCs | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Bonus, the ones who come back are desparate and you can abuse them much more than those who left!
Give in to your shittiest impulses, become the shitbird you were born to be! These guys NEED this job. Fuck em as hard as you want! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The hybrid model is such bull shit. You get all the downsides of having to live near the big city/office which essentially removes the benefit of WFH. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
don’t forget the ~~imported slaves~~ foreigners on work visas | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Highly skilled??? At Wells Fargo????? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Such an underrated comment, even at 5.5k | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Why would companies lay off capable people insted the worst performers? Won't they bring the best bang for buck. Jim Keller says laying off bottom 10% is smart because the average of new employee is better than the bottom 10%. But there the layoff motivation is just a refresh with the intention to hire more. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Just treat it like the game it is.
Have a worksona and workskills and workpolitics | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
As a job board it’s relatively great, I say “relatively” because it has less scams than the others and is actually decent with recommendations if you’re looking. Everything else though is just bizarre corporate bootlicking.
I’ve seen posts former bosses made about an old employer that are so glowing you could probably read at night next to them and I want to be like…. “Remember when they made us take a pay cut because times were hard and then bought naming rights to an NFL stadium?” | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
When I was forced into a role where I had to track and aggregate data, and report feedback to project managers/management for the work of other engineers, my bosses boss pulled me aside after yelling at me in a meeting.
He told me that if I wasn't getting results from people that I needed to yell at them. And that sometimes people quit if you yell at them, sometimes they're good engineers, but you have to do that to get results.
That was the day I quit. I mean I still collected a paycheck for the next year and a half. But I quit caring and I quit performing. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This is absolutely a huge part of it. An insane amount of property in the US is office space. A lot could/should be converted to housing considering the housing crisis. But commercial properties are very profitable for the owners and banks. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Might be if they get a small bonus at the end of the year for getting these people to quit lol | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
this is what is most annoying about economic reporting. Microsoft adds 100k to payrolls over the course of 3 years and then lays off 20k because they overhired -- countless articles about the fall of the tech industry. Wells Fargo steadily drops headcount by 70k -- crickets. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I think part of the problem is that trchbros spent their entire careers cultivating a feeling of superiority even though they don't require more expertise than other jobs.
They don't want to swallow that pill. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yup. Work in health care. Upper management fired two excellent directors for my program. Surprise surprise management had difficulty hiring and finding replacements, add to this after they were fired, middle management exited and behind them went the front line staff that worked under them. Then they sit in management meetings wondering why so many of the staff have left and the programs are understaffed… I’d give them the answer but I’m not payed enough to solve managerial issues. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
My wife has a Gmail account that gets targeted by hackers constantly due to a name similarity. As a result she takes security seriously, uses MFA, etc.
Eventually someone was actually able to use her account to open a WF bank account, after which she began getting this guy's monthly statements as well as password verification emails and stuff. I work in IT and verified this wasn't phishing, it was just a bank that allowed someone to open an account without at any point verifying they had access to the email account.
So she did the right thing, and tried to report it to their fraud department. I say "tried" because they refused to accept a complaint after determining she wasn't a Wells Fargo customer. She tried customer service, same deal. They wouldn't remove the email from the account because she wasn't the account holder. She explained multiple times that she was receiving banking information for *their* customer, and I think yelling it down a well might've been slightly more effective. They clearly had no process in place to handle a problem reported by a non-customer, so they just... ignored it, I guess.
In the end she gave up and blocked Wells Fargo in her Gmail. For all I know she's still getting this guy's statements. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
> too many employers have been so spoiled by the Great Recession in terms of how they look at labor and always believing that there's just loads and loads of talent out there unemployed and desperate
The 2008/2009 Great Recession also coincided with the two largest generations, Boomers and Millennials, being in the labor force at the same time. Employers had a glut of highly educated labor to choose from.
Boomers are exiting the labor market now. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This is what I can’t stand at my current employer. They’ve just blanketed the whole organization with a 4 day in office mandate. However, it’s enforced differently all across the organization and they’ve not once sent a survey or considered the employees at all. If the boomers want to go to the office to get away from their wives and kids then so fucking be it. Don’t force everyone to be miserable just because you are. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
> MBAs
There’s something to be said when some of the top MBA programs have what amounts to cultist brainwashing (“You’re an MBA at an elite school, you’re special and amazing…”) as orientation, which definitionally reduces critical thinking; any career minded MBA type will absolutely admit it’s about the network more than anything else (cf studies on third tier MBA schools ROI, who are not bad schools, but teaching the content without the network = …)
In undergrad we had T2 MBAs attending one of our introductory courses, and many of them were on their third go-around. The course could be passed by finding the most unique word or word pair in a question, and then looking that up in the textbook (skimming the sentence or two before any intended text block), and copying the following text block verbatim.
Eg, “what is an example of an iterated loop?”
In the text…
> For example, in the following code block we can see an iterated loop…
No, I’m not exaggerating. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
It's hard because managing remote is a skill, working remote is a skill, and enabling remote work well is an additional cost.
Many companies don't have management with remote management skills, workers with remote skills, and no ability to drop onsite costs to trade for remote enablement costs, so to them it's lose all the way around. It only takes one person in a senior leadership role without good remote management skills to sour the entire thing. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I had this in a government position had people learn something solo then those people trained the new people and more new people so noone actually truly knows what there doing lol and your paying out hundreds of millions in money its pretty funny how noone cares. The top top care for legal reason but then it slowly goes down the hierarchy of people who dont care and who also have no clue into the hands of minimum wage who give 0 shits lol. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Get yourself a parallax boebot and make it wave a flag around periodically | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I highly recommend you hire someone to create process / how-to documentation for the position. With the proper documentation, onboarding and training is easy. And you can prevent knowledge loss when someone leaves by having highly detailed documentation. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
So they did not monitor how many people they actually needed and just kept on hiring? Surely managers would have signaled that they have more than enough employees at some point and they would stop hiring long before it gets to the point they realise they overhired and have to fire half their employees lol. Or are people working in those corporations that dumb? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
In the US, firing people can result in a wrongful termination lawsuit. Companies have to do a bunch of internal paperwork to cover their butts, but if an employee just quits, the risk is mostly gone. Better for employees to quit than to get terminated. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Because they make the employees feel like that's their only choice. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Do every task no, but at least understand the business importance is crucial.
And I was referring to division presidents and c-suite executives needing to know what is happening two or three rungs below them, because that's their job. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I feel like this would be more accurate (at least at my employer) if it replaced “bosses with “executives”. I’m an IT manager and this was all intoxicated at an executive level. Managers and directors had no say in it at our place. Directors were forced back in regardless of distance, with no relocation pay and no change in pay to account for commuting costs, extended child care, etc. Most managers were too. And all the senior directors I know got to stay WFH even though they’re minutes from an office. My team is so geographically dispersed, I was able to put together an argument that the upper mgmt accepted as a valid excuse (why bring our team back in when they’ll sit in a office with no one on their team), but eventually my director admitted the biggest convincing argument was that they feared our whole team would leave or retire if forced back in - which was 100% true. Half our team is 60+ and the other half are young, skilled, and easily able to find employment elsewhere. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
> H1Bs are the actual source of the majority of illegal immigration.
I cannot verify this. Do you have a source? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yes… workers are allowed to do that. But you cant compete with Amazon. If you try, they’ll run their business at a loss until you go out of business. And jeff bezos isnt about to hand his keys over to the labor union. In fact, he’s spent billions preventing them from being able to exist. In effect, im “allowed” create a worker co op in the same sense that I’m “allowed” to go to the doctor. There are factors other than legality that make it much more difficult to achieve. In the doctor case, you need to have enough money to pay for the doctor or have insurance. Then you need to get approved time off from your job. Then, if you find out you have any urgent medical issues, you need to be prepared to spend thousands of dollars on the care you need.
In the unionization example, you need to first get enough steam rolling in your work place to get a union. The company will do absolutely everything in their power to prevent this. They will run disinformation campaigns, they’ll try and fire your lead organizers, tear down your fliers, etc etc. If you do get a union and manage to enter negotiations with your company, you still need to put enough pressure on the company to meet your demands. This can mean going weeks or even months without pay. All the while, the company can still hire scabs to fill your positions. After all, you’re a highly expendable “low skill” worker. They could train anyone to do your job and could probably get away with paying them less too. Then there’s always the risk your demands don’t get met, or the government comes in and fires you like Reagan did with the airline workers.
And in the co op situation, like I said. You can’t compete with Amazon. They will undersell you, operating at a loss until you can’t afford to run your business. Cuz why would you pay twice as much for whatever product when amazon sells it at half the price AND you get free 2 day shipping with prime!? The workers’ rights are rarely on the mind of the consumer. They don’t consider that the amazon delivery driver has to work long grueling hours, pissing in bottles just to earn poverty wages. To the consumer, the package appears at their doorstep when the magical black box tells them it will. How can a small business compete with that? And its not just amazon. Its walmart, kroger, mcdonalds, cocacola, pepsi, nestle (this one is particularly egregious. Theres a reason theres not many small chocolate companies. Its hard to compete with literal slave owners) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
And that’s the first hit on a death spiral for a company. Your good employees are the most valuable asset. Without them you have no company and thus no customers. No customers means no money and no shareholders. A companies employees should come first and the rest falls into place. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I'm going to disagree with you on the MBA not being bad by itself. With the amount of bullshit MBA's are taught, it shouldn't be viewed highly. They're taught to be corporate raiders out for short term gains and they teach highly destructive bullshit such as "business is business" that says you don't have to know anything about what the company actually does. And that's in addition to the self-hype /u/omgFWTbear pointed out.
They've also been nothing but destructive the past 30 years. All they ever know how to do is cut, cut, cut. They're unimaginative bean counters. We've ceded way too much power to them as a society, and they never get held to any account when they fuck up. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That sounds about right, there was another thread in r/Charlotte saying the same thing. He’s even gotten calls from his replacement asking for help on simple things, all covered in the documentation he left. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
For private companies maximizing profits is completely normal. But there is the question of maximizing profits in the short term or the long term... because these two rarely go together.
That doesn't mean a company should always grow. Because how many huge companies went under during economic crisis because thirst for growth stretched them too thin. Also if you grow so large that you establish monopoly on the market, anti-trust laws split your company into more companies.
And this doesn't mean every part of our society should put profit above everything. Quite the opposite.
We have public companies which spend taxpayers money but provide public service.
Governments shouldn't be all about the profit either. They should be about the long term wellbeing of the people and the state. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
the company I work for had the same change in policy. Mandated badge in and logging onto a company ip daily, and any WFH request required corporate divisional vp approval
Fully expect them to revert that policy sometime this year but yeah, the entire thing was a soft quit invitation to employees | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I'm in the middle of this now, worked remotely for Wells from 2017-2024, now back in the office 3x week. I sit and take teams calls in office. There's absolutely nothing to my role that requires an office presence. It's mind boggling to me, this wasn't a company that only went remote in the pandemic and is now trying to get "back to normal." They had a robust telecommute policy well before covid that they decided to revert for no reason I can understand. The weirdest part is all the managers cheerleading "location strategy" as if its the future of the business. Given that they have branches all over the country and need to maintain an employment tax presence in all 50 states, they could (and used to!) have a significant strategic advantage being able to recruit the best talent from anywhere. Instead they threw it all out the window.
My compensation ($ and PTO) is at a point where I might have trouble replicating it moving elsewhere, so I'm biting the bullet and dealing with it, but to say I'm unhappy would be an understatement. I've never seen bigger disconnects between executive talk and how employees see things in my entire time here, and I worked through the disasters of the account creation scandals. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Didn't give credit to another researcher (a woman) for her significant contributions. In other words, they were sexists. My main point being that u/Significant-Star6618 doesn't understand that scientists are human, and are subject to human weaknesses and issues. A scientific technocracy would be hell. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I don't see the problem. If you're being paid to perform a job its not unreasonable for the employer to expect you to come to office.
And if they want to lay people off it sucks for those affected but if they don't need all the staff they have then it needs to happen. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Dude these people are probably childless bitter middle management. You’re spot on. Back in the 80s I was home alone all summer starting at 6. Sucks being poor but we did have a nice neighbor who was there if I ever needed anything.
Not that 6 yo should be alone for hours. But an hour after school? That’s a quick snack and relax. Maybe watch a cartoon before going out to play. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This is amazing. My company said we have to do 2 days in the office back in 2022 but nobody really listens and their giant New Jersey office sits nearly empty every single day. I give it another few years before commercial office space collapses and companies finally fully capitulate. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
So I just got RTO'd (effective 1 July) and yes, I'm quitting because of it. What's interesting is that I'm getting all the real information from my boss, but my VP is completely downplaying the whole thing.
According to my boss, Leadership wants to hire someone for some new thing, but doesn't want to increase payroll, so I'm being transferred to another department to do both my job and the job of someone who was here on a temp contract. Because I'm changing departments, my remote work agreement no longer applies. Decision is final, etc. Oh, and that decision was made without talking to either my current or (no longer) future boss.
According to my VP, in a call I had last week, they just want all the graphic designers (like me) in the same department. There are two of us in the company. That's all he would tell me, though he did ask where I lived (sus). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
So expecting an employee to be doing business work and not housework while on the clock is micromanaging? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
"We're a *family*"
* Note: family here is either org crime "family" or cult like Manson "family" and the office is the Overlook Hotel, you've always been the care*taker* | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
A lot of cities give tax breaks to companies to open an office there. The idea is that high paying jobs in the area will create better service jobs in the area.
Supposedly that's why Apple had such a strong RTO policy is because they had a tax deal with the city of Cupertino to build their HQ there. I imagine Cupertino would not extend the tax breaks if most of their employees were remote. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
"Computer janitor" eg people doing basic tech support and maintenance, differentiated from engineers doing development or complex troubleshooting. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Wow. Companies are just getting stupid now. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
It is somewhat unreasonable if the boss was already satisfied with the work being performed. At that point it's just asserting power over employees at a whim. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This is what I don’t fucking get. My job requires two in office days (one of them is Wednesday where the ENTIRE company is required to be in for meetings and such. That I understand) but we can pick the second day.
The reason behind the second day? Team
Building. I chose Mondays and it’s me and two other people in the building (not even my department). I’m literally driving to sit at a desk in an empty building to work instead of sitting at my desk at home. It makes ZERO sense.
Oh, almost my quality/quantity of work is WAY down on office days. Not because I’m lazy or protesting, but I get up constantly to vape/walk/jist move my eyes for a bit where as at home, I can do all those things without really leaving my work room. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I don’t even think it’s that C suite doesn’t know what they’re doing.
If the company goes belly up they’ll be perfectly fine. They’ll have a new job inside a week and they’ll have a comfortable golden parachute to ride.
So they genuinely could not give a fuck what happens to the company. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I couldn't agree more with all of you!
However it's a sad fact that, even knowing this, a company might have no other options. Just saying that - in some cases - there are no good options that I can think of. If you could give them a rise, or at least not fire lots of people you would but can't.
That's not to say that there aren't many instances where it IS completely avoidable. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
"just working late again." Hides under desk.
or you find a place in the building you can hide a sleeping bag.
there was a woman who had set up a space behind a supermarket front sign.
not allowed - well of course. but when you need a way, you find a way. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
They don’t care. Their performance goals are based on the budget. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
with people from other teams that you will literally NEVER work with 😃 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I've heard upper management saying that people are replaceable and interchangeable. Just about the most ridiculous thing I've heard. A few weeks later, they are moaning about how we failed an audit because they barely train people and there's been significant turnover the last few years, leading to huge gaps in compliance on some of the major processes. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I've been blunt anytime it's brought up anywhere I work that RTO would just cause me to find a better job elsewhere that's remote and pays better.
Never had a boss really push for it at this point... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
A lot of leadership doesn’t realize that most people need their job and can’t afford the risk of leaving.
Voluntarily leaving your job is a privilege that only a fraction of people have and many would if they could. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
My speculation is that this is all a "soft" RTO because the writing is on the wall. The productivity data for WFH are very clear, employee preference is clear, and WFH actually reduces the firm's overhead costs.
But in the *meantime* there are too many tax breaks, sunk costs, or shareholders invested in commercial real estate to pull the bandaid off cleanly.
Frankly, most of these companies are just following the "industry trends" and pulling a monkey-see. The ones who are rationalizing it at all probably see themselves as burning up excess labor and space that they never plan on recovering.
What they're completely missing, however, is that they're making themselves inefficient and uncompetitive in the meantime, and they are going to have their lunches eaten by the startups these employees are going to set-up. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
After 2 years policy/leadership could easily change too | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Hoops aside that's pretty generous in my anecdotal experience. Most companies wouldn't have that at all, or if they did would axe it entirely. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
> A lot could/should be converted to housing considering the housing crisis.
Sadly I wish it was this easy. Most commercial property is not designed for an easy conversion between trying to block off the apartments, separate the power, run all the extra required water, separate the heating and air conditioning systems, swap out to windows that open, its a whole thing. Read that for most buildings, it would be cheaper just to rip the whole thing down and just build an apartment from scratch. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yeah at some point the government should step in and just break the company up. Maybe split it by regions or something. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
ok thats 3 or 4 euphemisms/expressions too many for my non native brain. I'm not sure I understand that | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Pretty accurate. I go through the same and been there for 15 years working remotely. This company and its skill set is in the tank and leadership is absolute garbage. Charlie shart and the cronies he put in place are abysmal and it trickles all the way down.
Moral at this company is terrible. People have feared for their jobs for two years now with no relief in sight. The location strategy is just another way to say “we are not laying anyone off”. I have myself been looking for a new job but compensation match is difficult as you said.
Losing as many people as we have I notice you can try to replace the skills but you cannot replace 15 years of relationships that help productivity. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I relate so much to this | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_6540d695-bb50-4d44-90e9-f4587c146cba | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
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