I hadn’t considered that. My company, though large, is private and doesn’t have to appease shareholders, so they still see value in keeping skilled employees.
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day agoand it seems like you’d want to keep workers rather than exercise dominion over them.
They don’t want to keep workers. Most of the RTO operations are pseudo-stealth layoffs. Companies want to reduce headcount and this is a way to make people leave without having to pay out severance or unemployment insurance claims. So this is cheaper for the company.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I should remind everyone that this is one of the most unethical ways to handle the people who have made money for the company they served for years. Any company that uses this strategy deserves to be bankrupt, and their leadership be made poor.
If they can’t treat their employees like human beings, they deserve no future success.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s also worth noting that pseudo-layoffs like this often lose the best people first. Those who have the most options
leisesprecher@feddit.org 1 day ago
The sad thing is, for companies on the scale of Dell, performance of individual workers (those who actually create value, maybe their direct superiors) is almost irrelevant.
There’s so much red tape, so much “aligning”, meetings, pointless communication and pointless rituals that hardly anyone gets anything done. And in those 5min you’re doing actual work, it’s almost irrelevant how good you are.