Gregory's ServerMeta critiquing remote working while trying to sell $1300 VR headsets to have remote meetings, with a stupid strategy directly from their CEO which basically lit all their profits on fire is... chefs kiss
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@kennwhite @GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes a local commercial real estate guy told me last week that he is hearing (from Ann Arbor tech firms like Duo and Barracuda) that millennials and X-ers prefer hybrid, but Zoomers DO NOT WANT to work from home — it’s all they have known since college and they are sick of it! @kennwhite @GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes it's a standard anti-wfh talking point in the uk right wing press which conveniently allows senior managers to work from home while forcing their subordinates into the office. The fact that they never consider improving their own remote management skills as a solution makes me very suspicious of it @GossiTheDog of course Zuckerberg is blaming remote work, the war, inflation and almost everything else that is not his failure to compete with TikTok or his disastrous Metaverse black hole of money 🤡 @GossiTheDog I am so confused by how many companies build what are considered remote working tools that refuse to work remotely... I have frequently said never trust slack to optimize for remote collaboration because they do not hire remote... many of the ticketing / dev productivity tools have same no-remote policies. It is very frustrating as it leads to bad solutions for the most commonly used tools. @GossiTheDog @GossiTheDog > "Engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week," he added. My current job is at a very large multi-disciplinary engineering company (tech-oriented, but not a "tech company", IYKWIM). Given a 100% remote option, almost all the software folks have taken it -- with no hit to productivity. If anything, not having to commute or deal with in-person bullshit has made things much more productive.  @GossiTheDog Harming the livelihood of 22k people total while still claiming a 23bn profit should be grounds for severe legal and regulatory action. But, sure, nobody needs unions. Class action is only for the employers. Be a good resource. @GossiTheDog Yet another tech "genius" showing their ass as basically a clueless mediocre white guy. @Ashton @GossiTheDog it's been for a while now. At the very least, when Facebook was no longer trendy for <18 it has already started dying, it's just that nobody realized. Platforms of this type start declining the moment this happens  @GossiTheDog Just qualifying this in my own feed as screw Zuck who is clearly suffering from being insulated from his own arrogance and ignorance for too long, but no joy in seeing more jobs lost without good alternatives. @GossiTheDog @donmelton what a terrrible thing to do to your employees. Hey, we’re cutting a ton of people. You may not know until April or even later in the year. Good luck focusing on work in 2023!  @GossiTheDog Interesting that the other FAANG company rumored to be gunning for this exact space in the near future—allegedly at an even higher price point—is Apple, who is also highly skeptical of remote work.  @GossiTheDog Zuck is just doing his best at emulating his business mentor, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg  |
@GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes totally fair, and I'm absolutely the LAST guy to defend FB, but this is one of the first times I've seen any company qualify the in-person productivity claim with “engineers earlier in their career”, which I think _might_ have some merit.