Good luck keeping down a solid dev team when other companies offer far more money and I don't leave the comfort of my own home
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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Yeah. Expecting a Dev team to be in-person, in 2024, is a huge red flag. Wildly incompetent management.
I haven’t been into an office in 4 years. My last company tried to start making engineers come into the office. Most of us have new remote jobs now.
The Dead Sea Effect.
Yes, everyone is very aware of this corporate news shills. RTO is to keep commercial property values up and to satisfy micromanagers.
One of my worst people in office is the best WFH. She has an attention issue but can hyper focus at home and feels a lot more productive and like she’s contributing so she’s happier. Corporate doesn’t allow WFH but I do under certain circumstances. I figured out how to track her progress in like 5 minutes and continue to fight the WFH fight for employee depts it makes sense for. The main reason isn’t realty space (we have to have warehousing anyway) it’s managing them. Get your heads out of your butts upper management!
When the pointy haired bosses eventually hammer her out of the building, can we have her? We're unionized remote workers and we like effective people.
You work with my wife? Thanks for taking care of her!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For the more buttoned-up leaders like David Solomon and Jamie Dimon, any amount of remote work is an aberration, a distraction, and an excuse for workers to slack off—because they’re evading the watchful eye of a manager who would keep them in line.
(While 200 is a small sample size, there are very few executive roles in those companies, making Atlassian’s representation fairly close to capturing that specific pool.)
Per Atlassian’s research, 1 in 3 Fortune 500 and 1000 bosses whose companies mandate some amount of in-person work say that the rule hasn’t impacted productivity at all.
As Dean told Fortune last year, companies who steadfastly refuse to meet workers where they’re at with regard to work location will undoubtedly suffer the consequences.
A recent report from think tank Economist Impact found that workers don’t actually lose focus when they go remote—it’s really when they feel they’ve lost autonomy or have to grapple with “a weak infrastructure for a thriving workplace.” Time and time again, data proves that workers simply don’t like being told what to do, and will resent feeling forced into an office needlessly.
Even part-time in-office arrangements are a policy failure, Dean explained, which might be a blow to bosses who think they’re offering a compromise in the form of a hybrid plan.
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Tired employees that feel treated as pawns are not more productive? What if we poke them each morning at the door with a stick? That may work. /s
Paywall :(