Dell goes back to office!!!! https://www.theverge.com/news/603963/dell-return-to-office-stellantis-jpmorgan
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I got dinged on my latest review for not participating enough in the team channels, and I feel like I’m back in middle school. Apparently, shipping clean, bug-free code ahead of schedule takes a backseat to not dropping enough memes in the #random channel. My manager literally told me that social presence is a core metric for our remote culture this year. Is this normal? I’m so grumpy about it.
I’m a 35-year-old in Seattle, and I’m genuinely terrified that I’m already becoming too old for this industry. I looked around our all-hands meeting yesterday and realized that except for upper management, almost everyone on the engineering team is fresh out of college age. They can pull all-nighters without blinking, while my back hurts if I sit in the wrong chair for two hours. Are we all just silently sliding toward an expiration date once we hit our late 30s? How do you stay relevant?
But they aren’t announcing bringing back jobs to the US from offshore so we can all be in the same location for better collaboration
Right
Good luck to Dell and their people. Just my experience maybe, but I get far less done in the office when there's a line of people constantly asking me about anything under the sun. Time management becomes impossible as an engineer when everything is an emergency.
Not just your experience- countless reputable sources, studies and data. Maga doesn’t compute or comprehend on any of that though.
It seems like it's inevitable that remote workers who could be back in an office will be. Once Jamie Dimon started ranting against remote work the RTO trend was just going to accelerate. Business people talk about being independent thinkers, but if a celebrity CEO says something, they all follow the leader.
Hope all our Trump voters should be very proud of themselves!! All I have seen so far is the punishment he's ditching out...Yet to see a positive!
^ it didn't start with Trump and it's not limited to Republicans
Scratch that company off the list.
I thought Dell went out of business a long time ago. What do they even do anymore?
They poach the sales from other partners they are supposed to be partnering with and use unethical sales practices
I’m afraid that with the president’s announcement this week for federal workers required to return to office or take a package that most companies will follow his lead, but without the package.
Duh it’s inevitable. Unless you are 100% remote and not near an office . I for example was never based out of an office , always remote and not near an office .
Sureeeeee
RTO was never about collaboration, they want to make us quit to avoid laying us off and paying severance.
I love Dell and Lenovo computers!! So much better than those damn Apple computers and they last longer too!!! I have always used them in the Office. They last Forever!!!
And are still running explorer and windows 98, yeah you’re right. Such a competitive advantage and business model!
And yet, no one has mentioned the main reason for WFH; COVID. And now here comes H5N1. How long before they are all sent back home? They never fixed the number 1 issue for all-in-office; air quality. If there was adequate filtration and less sharing of devices, the spread of germs wouldn't empty offices in the first place. Remember, a million and a half people died of a disease that the returning administration called a hoax. It's all political and it's all Bennie droppings.
COVID accelerated WFH. People and companies were already trending in that direction. Ended up working out really well, cutting costs and saving time, especially for those who didn't need to be physically in a controlled office setting. Now it seems they're forgetting those lessons.
RTO is just an end run around trying to conduct layoffs in public
Not all jobs require you to be in the office
I think the only that really does- physician. And even that is only for exams. EVERY OTHER JOB can be done remotely. Periodt.
If remote work delivered a measurable competitive advantage it would be mandatory.
Hahahaha the naïveté around capitalism is astounding jpc1. Mediocre ⚪️ male who doesn’t understand data, thank you for your example, once again.
Not surprised
Same
yay DeLL !
1hr by drive ? 1hr by transit ? 1hr by bicycle ? 1hr by walking ? I think they can side step this !
Guarantee they still do zoom meetings.
For sure they will do zoom calls from their office desks. All my employees at Airbus Canada zoom instead of sitting in the same room when they are at the office.
When they didn’t give people raises because of remote work - why aren’t they giving the raises now
yay !