Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
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Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#2https://archive.ph/wJelE
"A separate internal document showed that already-approved remote workers may be subject to reevaluation if the company determines “material changes in business need, role, team, structure or location.”"
Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#3It might be useful to "all be in the room" when brainstorming. Once the coding starts, this is just a set of distractions I don't need. I suspect many/most of the developers reading HN want peace and quiet far more than the chance of magical hallway conversations.
And it's only an anecdote, but we debugged a problem today where people were in two provinces of Canada and the UK. Were perfectly able to share screens, run test calculations and "interact" using existing technology. Companies either trust their staff or they don't and the staff should act accordingly.
Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#4It might be useful to "all be in the room" when brainstorming. Once the coding starts, this is just a set of distractions I don't need. I suspect many/most of the developers reading HN want peace and quiet far more than the chance of magical hallway conversations. And it's only an anecdote, but we debugged a problem today where people were in two provinces of Canada and the UK. Were perfectly able to share screens, r…
All in the room works for reviewing ideas, not creating them.
Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#5Heard on Blind: soon HR will be calling engineer parents about missed days in office: "your son is smart, he is just not applying himself".
Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#6It might be useful to "all be in the room" when brainstorming. Once the coding starts, this is just a set of distractions I don't need. I suspect many/most of the developers reading HN want peace and quiet far more than the chance of magical hallway conversations. And it's only an anecdote, but we debugged a problem today where people were in two provinces of Canada and the UK. Were perfectly able to share screens, r…
All in the room works for reviewing ideas, not creating them.
Even for that I feel like asynchronous works better. You often get stuck on someone’s pet peeve and waste an hour when on something like a Google doc you can have 30 different threads for comments concurrently
Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#7This is yet another sign that Google is in ruin …
Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#8It was only a matter of time before corporation started preference, and those who showed up and those who prefer to work from home
Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#9This is yet another sign that Google is in ruin …
It's hardly in ruin, has more cash on the balance sheet than, for example, all the help sent to Ukraine, military and humanitarian. It's just that making a shit ton of money ain't actually that fun because your job is basically to constantly patch holes in this gargantuan ship that never stops.
Re: Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
#10In other news, Google has been taken over by High School Principals.