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is this "office" = things with doors, desks for 1-2 people, some sound insulation, bookcases, ... or is this "office" = big, open room with transient power plugs and lots of people desperately hoping nobody makes noise?
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I work for a software company who bought a giant new building a couple of years before the pandemic hit. They waited until the last possible minute to let us WFH once the pandemic hit, and then as soon as it got better they instituted a “hybrid” WFH policy - in office 3 days, WFH 2 days. I don’t understand why. The 2 years we worked from home were the most profitable despite a worldwide pandemic going on, and I felt…
Y’all need to unionize and negotiate for remote work as a mandated benefit if you don’t want to leave but want to keep working remote. Otherwise, they'll keep treating you like peasants demanding whatever they can get away with within the bounds of or on the edge of labor law.
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I work for a software company who bought a giant new building a couple of years before the pandemic hit. They waited until the last possible minute to let us WFH once the pandemic hit, and then as soon as it got better they instituted a “hybrid” WFH policy - in office 3 days, WFH 2 days. I don’t understand why. The 2 years we worked from home were the most profitable despite a worldwide pandemic going on, and I felt…
Y’all need to unionize and negotiate for remote work as a mandated benefit if you don’t want to leave but want to keep working remote. Otherwise, they'll keep treating you like peasants demanding whatever they can get away with within the bounds of or on the edge of labor law.
This job used to be about solving hard problems with brilliant people, now it's about barking dogs and echo cancelation artifacts.
It's baffling that companies spend so much money on offices for tech workers. It makes no sense to me. It wastes money and it's pointless with tools like slack, miro, loom etc.
I work for a software company who bought a giant new building a couple of years before the pandemic hit. They waited until the last possible minute to let us WFH once the pandemic hit, and then as soon as it got better they instituted a “hybrid” WFH policy - in office 3 days, WFH 2 days. I don’t understand why. The 2 years we worked from home were the most profitable despite a worldwide pandemic going on, and I felt…
As in, they are your employer and not ex-employer.
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Y’all need to unionize and negotiate for remote work as a mandated benefit if you don’t want to leave but want to keep working remote. Otherwise, they'll keep treating you like peasants demanding whatever they can get away with within the bounds of or on the edge of labor law.
"Treating you like peasants demanding whatever they can get away with" is exactly how I feel about having to spend 4-7 hours every day on Zoom. Collaborations involving remote participants are excruciating and move very slowly. The workload hasn't decreased to compensate. We've just privatized onto everyone the costs of remoteness, in the form of longer hours and Zoom fatigue. Any union contract I'm going to accept n…
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"Treating you like peasants demanding whatever they can get away with" is exactly how I feel about having to spend 4-7 hours every day on Zoom. Collaborations involving remote participants are excruciating and move very slowly. The workload hasn't decreased to compensate. We've just privatized onto everyone the costs of remoteness, in the form of longer hours and Zoom fatigue. Any union contract I'm going to accept n…
What do you do that requires 4-7 hours a day on zoom? I’m a project manager with multiple projects and generally keep it to no more than 4 hours total per day. Unless your job is all about talking to people, then someone has made a big mistake.
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"Treating you like peasants demanding whatever they can get away with" is exactly how I feel about having to spend 4-7 hours every day on Zoom. Collaborations involving remote participants are excruciating and move very slowly. The workload hasn't decreased to compensate. We've just privatized onto everyone the costs of remoteness, in the form of longer hours and Zoom fatigue. Any union contract I'm going to accept n…
What do you do that requires 4-7 hours a day on zoom? I’m a project manager with multiple projects and generally keep it to no more than 4 hours total per day. Unless your job is all about talking to people, then someone has made a big mistake.