Dell goes back to office!!!! https://www.theverge.com/news/603963/dell-return-to-office-stellantis-jpmorgan
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I’ve been WFH from a different country for three months without telling HR, and the anxiety is finally starting to eat me alive. My VPN is holding up, and my manager hasn't noticed that my home office background is just a stock photo. The tax implications are probably a nightmare, but my quality of life has doubled since I left the Bay Area. Is it better to ask for forgiveness if I get caught? Should I just keep going?
The work culture on my team is pretty bad. There is high burn out, lots of fighting, finger pointing, working 24/7. When I bring this up, the leaders mention that this is just how tech culture is. It is worse at other companies. I haven’t worked at another company so I feel like I can’t counter. What should I say?
I know of an employer that employs asian females almost exclusively in their production area. The job is mostly soldering through hole components. The pay isn't very high. There are about 40 people working in that production area and it's 95% asian females. The odd part is there are two leads and a supervisor in that area and they are all white. It really seems like race based hiring practices.
How do you deal with the feeling that your entire professional output is meaningless? I’m watching my company ignore every single one of my user-centric findings. They pay me to conduct deep-dive interviews and usability tests, but at the end of the day, the CEO just goes with whatever gut feeling he had. It’s soul-crushing.
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 !