"globally consistent, enterprise-wide work model" sounds dystopian.
EA Pushes Full Return to Office, Effectively Ends Remote Hiring
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#42The entire industry is plagued by oversupply right now. These sorts of power plays are impossible in a resource-constrained setting. Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor devils graduating from CS degree programs right now.
If you're graduating with a CS degree from a legit university you're much better positioned than if you did a 2 month bootcamp, which I expect are the first people to have trouble finding a job
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#43The entire industry is plagued by oversupply right now. These sorts of power plays are impossible in a resource-constrained setting. Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor devils graduating from CS degree programs right now.
Just tell more displaced coal miners and high schoolers to learn to code. That'll solve the problem.
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#44Megacorps are making dumb, outdated, bureaucratic, inflexible, control-freak, paternalism fashionable again.
Its because the leadership is always stuck in the past and never stops to ask "is this the right thing to do?"
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#45The entire industry is plagued by oversupply right now. These sorts of power plays are impossible in a resource-constrained setting. Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor devils graduating from CS degree programs right now.
If you're graduating with a CS degree from a legit university you're much better positioned than if you did a 2 month bootcamp, which I expect are the first people to have trouble finding a job
I kinda hear you -- there's definitely gradations at work here -- but the sentiment you've expressed is also fast losing veracity. For instance:
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you want them to pump up real estate prices if people can work and live outside of city centers ? What are they going to do with all these gigantic towers ? Thinks about these poor mill/billionaires!
Who is "they"? The companies bringing employees back to the office aren't typically the owners of these buildings not are they real estate investors.
If they (the companies) aren't the ones who own the buildings then why are they doing this?
Not rhetorical - from my perspective, it seems like RTO is plainly a money-waster. If you're hybrid or remote and it's working, why take the risk? And, why pour your pockets on things that don't make you money, like office space? Cubicles don't produce your product, people do.
I mean, it just makes so little sense to me. I don't think that means it's a conspiracy. But, clearly, we are missing something that executives are factoring into this decision.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
May be the problem with hiring from wider geography is that evaluation of a candidate performance is a difficult and largely unsolved problem. Hiring from a small area (like SV) an employer can rely on offline social networks (friend of my friend knows a candidate). Though I don’t understand why US companies so afraid to make a bad hire given that it is easy to fire someone who doesn’t perform well in the US.
>Though I don’t understand why US companies so afraid to make a bad hire given that it is easy to fire someone who doesn’t perform well in the US. I assume because in the US employees can still sue for what they would consider wrongful termination, especially if the worker is part of a protected group, making firing a very expensive endeavor in the end.
In practice this almost never happens.
Even people who are actually discriminated against, which is very common, don't typically sue. It's a lot of work to sue, and while you're at it, you don't have a job or health insurance. Most workers are just focused on getting another job so they're not on the street or bankrupted by an unexpected surgery.
I've seen now multiple cases of very obvious discrimination. Nothing actually comes of it. If the brass wants you gone, you're gone. You have no recourse, laws are basically just suggestions when it comes to corporations.
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#48Megacorps are making dumb, outdated, bureaucratic, inflexible, control-freak, paternalism fashionable again.
Its because the leadership is always stuck in the past and never stops to ask "is this the right thing to do?"
Ethics are a quaint memory because leadership of private equity/publicly-traded companies are graded primarily only on profit maximization. And, leadership often pays MBB consultants to think for them, effectively outsourcing decision-making and creating a fall guy so they can blame someone else for screwing up.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're graduating with a CS degree from a legit university you're much better positioned than if you did a 2 month bootcamp, which I expect are the first people to have trouble finding a job
I kinda hear you -- there's definitely gradations at work here -- but the sentiment you've expressed is also fast losing veracity. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612448
So is that post’s sentiment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43725229
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I kinda hear you -- there's definitely gradations at work here -- but the sentiment you've expressed is also fast losing veracity. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612448
So is that post’s sentiment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43725229
TIL, thanks!