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Dec 12, 2024
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fredgarvin
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Ah yes, the office culture...
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My employer (large Fortune 50) is doing mandatory 5x8 in the office nationwide
shoganai
9:10am
at that point why not make everyone hourly?
Schultz is back
9:13am
And why even let them go home at night? Should just chain them to the desk
ChiCityCoug
9:16am
We'll see how strictly it gets enforced. A lot of people are assuming this is
shoganai
9:19am
That's a huge factor right now — easy way to purge without firing/layoffs
Bobber
9:23am
These measures feel like a good old fashion scream test.
rad dawg
9:21am
Ah yes, the office culture...
fredgarvin
9:14am
How to not attract talent. Treat everyone like they are children.
maYbe
9:18am
Employees have to actually be trust-worthy to be trusted and too many executives are finding out that
2FarGone
9:20am
While I see this, I also believe in giving employees autonomy and hard
1984coug
9:42am
This is true, but as an employer, I think about it this way:
2FarGone
10:03am
which should be happening annually anyways
1984coug
10:54am
People abusing WFH is the biggest reason for this growing trend
2FarGone
9:19am
A lot of the corporate world "abuses" work-at-work too
Bobber
9:21am
it really is a problem
2FarGone
9:24am
A funny thing with a company I advise. They had employees that wanted to go back to the office.
tamasiaina
9:39am
My time is not a company resource
Bobber
10:32am
They switch you to hourly and pay you 70% less than they do.
2FarGone
10:37am
I remember there all of these youtube videos of people doing "life of a software engineer at Google"
tamasiaina
9:34am
There was another viral video of a pair of female product managers in their bathing suits by the pool "working"
2FarGone
10:01am
I am paid to do my work. End of story.
TheWanderer
10:03am
The company should just increase your goals and workload then.
2FarGone
10:04am
I think they are happy with the status quo.
TheWanderer
10:10am
I've known exactly zero people doing that. Overblown mythology.
Mitty
10:16am
We learned in the 80's that for most jobs, being in the office is better (for the employer). It's no surprise to me that
HarlemCoug
9:23am
My company is going from 3 days to 4 days in office on Jan 1. Lot of unhappy people yesterday. What they don’t know is
WDaddy
9:23am
So ... there's a big swing to go BTO in the industry lately for many reasons
tamasiaina
9:30am
Phone logs? To help verify presence or monitor productive use of phones?
Florwood
9:32am
They're using phone network connectivity logs to verify location and help track
shoganai
9:36am
I've been getting tired of hearing everyones dogs barking and kids sreaming in
fredy
9:34am
My employer (also large Fortune 500) was aggressive during the pandemic against
QBarrister
9:39am
Before this, when I had to go into an office I tried to avoid certain
1984coug
9:46am
I am glad to be at a company that has and is embracing WFH. We still have physical locations...
Tokolosh
9:40am
My good friend at his fortune 3 company did internal research
DataMouth
9:50am
While I don’t think you can mandate culture at all, I also see the problem with just having remote employees as they
specsauce
9:50am
RE: My employer (large Fortune 50) is doing mandatory 5x8 in the office
joelvandyne
10:37am
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