Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing"

doctortofu@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• M500@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they get to stay home then why can’t I?!?

  That’s really it’s about.

  The only people that should be in the office are people who literally need to be there.

  Like if there are physical servers and they need to be physically configured then sure the tech can go in for that.

  If it’s a repair show, then sure the tech has to come in to do the repair.

  Otherwise let people stay home.

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  • slurpeesoforion@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve hypothesized that they want people in person so that the things they won’t say over a network can be said in person.

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They do it because they invested in the property and want to make it worth their while. Now they can enforce some stupid productivity policies while you are there.

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      • Chefdano3@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re forgetting the part where they can shift the blame of the company is tanking as the fault of " lazy workers who won’t RTO" instead of their terrible management, to convince shareholders not to get rid of them

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    • melisdrawing@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same with the ‘getting better ideas in person’ bit. He means he can’t take credit for others’ work if everything is documented.

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  • doctortofu@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh I emphatically agree - I have a fully remote job and not even doubling my salary would make me consider switching to an office one. I was just clumsily trying to point out that a lot of corporate positions don’t require all that creativity and collaboration bullshit that clueless executives love to throw around in videos like this one.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a fully remote job and not even doubling my salary would make me consider switching to an office one.

      The funny thing is that if the corporate masters every figured out that they could retain employees who were tempted by higher salaries just by keeping them comfortable, they still wouldn’t do it.

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