I guess this could just as easily be posted in an anti-work community
is now asking all employees within 50 miles of a company office to go in at least two days a week on a hybrid schedule.
I briefly worked for a company that took this approach. The oversight they made was they had 2 offices (different teams in each), but as long as you lived within 50 miles of one of the offices, you had to come in.
Even if your team was exclusively in office 1, and you lived outside the radius of office 1 BUT were in the radius of office 2…you had to come in to office 2…and teleconference with your team in office 1 🤦
I’d just move further away lol
Stay where you are and work for a different company. Problem solved.
I know a lawyer in the Boston suburbs who went full WFH during the pandemic. He loved his job but was upset when his boss pushed for him to come back to the office. Boss said he lived too close to the office in Boston to justify it.
Lawyer moved to Vermont with his girlfriend and still works fully remote for the same law office.
I love it that the lawyer literally laywered his way out of having to return to the office.
most have contingencies that if you are in the 50, then move out of the 50, that’s on you. You still gotta come in.
You mean my incredibly easy-to-predict life hack was countered before i could even try? I’m shocked… shocked I tell you.
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There’s a guy at my company that lives in Sacramento, and commutes twice a week to go in the office in mountain view. That’s a 4 hour commute with no traffic.
His entire team is in the San diego office. There’s literally zero point, but I guess his manager isn’t willing or capable of fighting for an exception to the hybrid mandate.
50 miles during a commute is way too far. My employer has pushed for people whose commute would be 1 hour maximum during rush hour to try to come into an office once a week. Where I live it can take an hour to go 10-15 miles during rush hour…
Was it 50 miles in a straight line or 50 on your odometer?
50 mile radius of the office address.
So if your home was 40 miles away but your commute was 55 miles…you still had to go 🙄
Return to office to sit at computer on zoom.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
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I like being in the office but the commute is so fucking dumb. Giant swarms of gridlocked cars blasting pollution into the air, wasting vast amounts of time/money/public resources… then you think about how you worked perfectly fine 100% remote for a year and yet these tech companies are all of a sudden herding everyone back into the office doing everything possible to piss away a valuable tool to reduce pollution, increase space for housing while reducing their own overhead, and build resiliency against future pandemics.
It’s frustrating.
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It’s almost certainly much more about commercial real estate and making sure they don’t lose out on the huge investments they have made there. It’s always always about money.
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It’s just weak management. Some people work best from home. For some people, that doesn’t really work. For people like myself, I need to come into the office once per week and I’m good.
But it’s easier to manage via policy instead of managing individuals. So that’s what they do.
Every single serious study about working from home has had the result that it makes workers more productive.
It heavily depends on your circumstances. A lot of people really want to get back to the office.
I’m not suggesting that people should be forbidden to work in the office, just that they shouldn’t be forced to do it. My company has a completely liberal policy concerning home office, so you can work from home pretty much all the time, but I still come to the office regularly because I want to.
Careful, this article might cause irony poisoning
“Oscar Meyer tells employees to eat less meat”
“Pfizer tells employees to use homeopathic remedies.”
“Microsoft tells employees to use Linux.”
Microsoft is a major contributor to the Linux kernel for decades now. They even were in the top 5 for a while. So yeah, plenty of MS employees use Linux exclusively.
Well, “plenty” probably just consists of teams such as the WSL development team. I highly doubt anyone in sales, marketing, or development for anything Windows or Windows-application related uses Linux exclusively.
Airbnb tells employees to stay at hotels.
They have to come back to the office, but no getting out of their cubicle to talk. They have to use Zoom for that.
We can only assume the internal memo was:
“Hey guys! Oh shit! Our remote conferencing software is actually crap! We need to return to the office ASAP!”
Good for them not having any “sacred cow” technologies - not even the one they sell, apparently.
In other news, a bunch of Zoom employees are easily poachable.
Different circumstances but similarly funny in an absurd way because of how it sounds, I remember reading a news item in the 90s about the time when a riot broke out in a Nerf factory in China.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this is just to weed out employees so they don’t need to do layoffs. Forcing return to office keeps employees that are “loyal” to the company while potentially trimming down total headcount.
They’ll have a ton of workers who are hundreds to thousands of miles away, housed elsewhere, with kids in school, who will have to quit rather than somehow go to that office, so yeah.
I’ve been saying this since the tech industry has been pushing RTO, I used to work in a large company that hopped on the layoff wave and they were pushing HARRRRDD for RTO. I quit before the bloodbath and found a more fun job :)
Hahaha Zoom about to be btfo by resignations
just slack off those 2/5 days where they force you in the office and kill their network while you’re at it (upload unnecessarily)
Are they doubling tapping themselves on their foot after the BS that they put on their ToS?
Dude! That was some happy horseshit of them to pull!
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