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Was the pandemic hiring spree coordinated also? Just copycat behavior the whole way through imo.
ZIRP allowed companies to borrow infinite money at almost no cost
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We have done the same at Zendesk. We've reduced our office footprint but have kept our hubs open with large enough offices open for the occasional large on-site and for easier team collaborations, as well as space for anyone that prefers to work in an office environment. I like the model, but I question long term economic viability of owning that much office space with mostly low utilization and only occasional spike…
I'd be interested what the financial analysis looks like leasing or owning hubs vs a cadence of offsites annually remote first orgs usually hold, considering meeting space + hoteling for staff during the meet. I'll chip in for this analysis and blog post!
You could do a lot of travel with a 5-7k budget per month.
There are a ton of variables- agree more analysis is needed.
At one point I stopped thinking about github because it Just Worked. These days its a dice roll if even simple things like loading a repo page or perusing the notifications actually does what its supposed to.
Best of luck to the folks who get cut finding something better!
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Officies, especially the great ones (as in also very expensive) create an irrational emotional attachment and are very hard to downsize on them without impacting morale.
It’s disturbing to think that people think human connection is irrational. I guess y’all forgot that that was how labor unions were formed.
Also, human connnection isn't irrational, but expecting all or most of your human connections to come from your job may be.
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What you don't like collaborating in the excel web app and wiping your coworker's active cell edit from existence by inserting a row somewhere above it? Next you're going to tell me you don't enjoy powerpoint web app randomly changing formatting in bulleted lists when you do something as complex as hitting enter to add a new line. You can tell where Microsoft spent their energies (outlook, teams, maybe onenote?) and…
> were sharepoint web apps ARE still sharepoint apps. At least that's how they feel.
What does closing all offices mean? Do they go full remote or employees are going to move to Microsoft offices
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This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.
xpe is taking everything 100% serious here.
P.S. and that attempt at humor definitely involved metaphor
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You missed them by that (tiny-fingers-gap) much. I'm just old enough to have witnessed the dot-com crash a few years before I went into industry; this feels very similar. In fact, it feels a little less intense; the dot-com crash was about an entire business model consolidating under an absolute handful of winners (example: most independent online stores went "We can't compete with Amazon" and bankrupted, laying off…
This is right. The dot-com crash was an absolute crash. Not "we're laying off 5-15% of our company." It was a lot of "This media darling that had an IPO after 2 years of operations no longer exists." In my social group of about 30 folks, I think at ~25 of us all experienced months of unemployment, at the least.
I am absolutely certain this is to suppress wages and employee rights. It is a coordinated effort across the industry and should be immediately investigated.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Conversely: “the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”.