Activision QA Workers Protest New Office Mandate, Calling It a 'Soft Layoff'

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• toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My team’s return to office was so successful that we all had the opportunity to share covid with each other and nearby teams. Management’s complete lack of understanding of the work they are tasked to oversee makes arm waving butts in chairs policies seem like a viable way to not seem incompetent.

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My old place of employment told everyone that they had to go back to office earlier this year. 1 month later, about 10 people out of a 15-ish department found remote jobs. They just shuttered the local office after a couple more months. My new place is much better :).

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    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is going to be the pattern at all these places doing RTO: The ones who are capable of getting WFH jobs will get them, and they'll be left with their least capable folks.

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  • vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its real estate. They have huge, expensive offices they /know/ are barely necessary, and they absokutely cannot afford the loss they would incur if they had to sell, because if one large tech or office firm did that, soon there would be pressure on all of them to do that.

    That could crash the commercial real estate market and lead to the real estate market in general going down.

    While this would benefit the vast majority of workers, it would financially harm those with lots of vested stocks and other investments.

    Oh and of course working from home makes middle management /obviously/ more or less useless. And basically all managers (there are some exceptions) and all VPs (near 0 exceptions) and above are sociopaths who crave feeling important and superior to others, and they will do anything to continue that lifestyle.

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• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If there is one thing Microsoft does not want or need, it’s QA. They have their own people.

  Shareholders get richer from this buyout, and the workers get fired.

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  • Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They have their own people

    microsoft has QA?

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    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      His name’s Mike

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    • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, their customers!

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    • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      had

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