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There's no question to the quality of Copilot.
Is there? And which Copilot is that? Github? Office 365? Windows? Yet another?
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1. Will you name? Sounds like some sane management; those looking for jobs might find that a useful datapoint. 2. I think making it proportional to the length of the commute is an interesting idea. And even for those who don't like the office... two days a week with a short commute isn't terrible .
1. I can't name them, but they're in the health care industry. 2. Yeah, and all they're doing is taking badge reports. Going in for a Town Hall meeting or a team meeting meets these requirements. You're not required to be in the office a set number of hours - just be there. I've been told its a kind of reverse psychology trick. The more time you spend around your coworkers, grabbing lunch, collabing on little stuff,…
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Also -- why is Teams such trash? It can barely fulfill its core responsibility.
Thats because Teams is just a frontend to SharePoint Online. SPOL is even worse a tirefire than, say, even Lotus Notes. And it's in Electron on top of that, so its 10x slower than a real non-browser application. Ive only rarely seen Microsoft put out actual good software. The last time was Windows 2000. Now, that was some quality software.
It was good, but IIS had some faults, can't remember what, they wanted to replace it quickly with 2003. There isn't much wrong with Windows XP, objectively speaking.
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Has Microsoft built anything in the last decade that isn’t of questionable quality/user experience?
most people like vs code and lots of companies have built on top of it so there must be some quality there that people like.
Commute time should be salaried time. Then the whole office/home work discussion could be taken with the true costs involved.
Sounds a bit extreme, but OTOH this is what tradesfolk typically do - charge $100 to ring your doorbell and take it from there, since it does cost them money just to get to you. Still, even if there is some sort of justification (moreso if the company chooses to locate themselves away from residential/affordable areas), I'm not sure how you would avoid abuse. Maybe just pay employees a fixed amount for each day they…
A fixed payment for office days would remove that, but then how do you determine the price of that payment?
Disappointed but not surprised.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Just this time they're extinguishing their less profitable projects.
>We’ve looked at how our teams work best, and the data is clear: when people work together in person more often, they thrive — they are more energized, empowered, and they deliver stronger results. Citation needed or this is just more vibe-xecutive decree.
Corporate analysts were "gifted" with a two impossibly rare step functions, that will probably never be repeated in our lifetimes: Near 100% -> near 0% percent in office, then 0% percent -> partial% in office. With most (all?) of the big companies following the same path, I think it's safe to assume the data points to the same conclusion: in whole, humans work better together. It makes you wonder if it's a fundamenta…
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This kind of commentary is more appropriate for Reddit but in this case I approve.
Also -- why is Teams such trash? It can barely fulfill its core responsibility.
All of this has integrations into each other. Somehow a slack bot can show me calendar entries. Why I would even need such a broken UI/experience is unclear to me. I can't see when people usually work. Meet chats disappear once the meeting is over.
At Teams/Outlook you have a million other issues, but all things considered, I preferred it.
I work in a large company that mandated 4-day RTO last year. Even taking a completely objetive point of view on the situation leads to the conclusion that something else is needed. We spend our days at our desks, on Zoom calls. People won’t get up to join in person - mostly because the conference rooms are all blocked by “special projects”, but mostly due to the offshoring of positions and distributed workforce post-…