Let’s not forget that all “return to office” mandates are really just a way for the C-suite to reduce headcount while appearing strong/decisive, avoiding negative press (and therefore spooking investors), and not having to pay severance.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a big fan of Teams. The fact that the software is named after a common organizational unit, and also a feature within the software is named after that same thing, is insane. Also, I haven’t seen such an unnecessary resource hog since the original Microsoft Edge.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Also:

Gotta keep the commercial real estate market from imploding.

Whole lotta corpo money and financing tied up in that, sure would be a shame if most office space just wasn't actually needed for most office work.

Also also:

Most managers just personally need the ability to neg employees in-person, even if it is detrimental to actual output, that doesn't matter, what matters is sating their need to feel powerful and important.

Anyway, Zoom did basically the same thing either earlier this year or last year... yep, Zoom employees, the people who make and sell business oriented virtual collaboration software... all need to RTO.

Found it: https://fortune.com/2024/07/09/remote-work-outlook-zoom-return-to-office-chief-people-officer/

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait till you hear about Word!

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or "Windows App"

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what the fuck is with Windows App? it takes gigs and it's literally just an RDP wrapper.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

Also literally no one uses it. Everyone just uses remote desktop which is still in windows anyway.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

And "office".

[–] Cruel@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I blame people more than Microsoft. People were either duped or too lazy to say "Microsoft Teams" in full. It's not too crazy to have services like "Apple Music" because people aren't allowing Apple to control the word by just saying "Music" casually. People need to go back to saying "Microsoft Teams." Alas, it will never happen. 😒

[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I've taken to say Fucking Teams™. Our company has Slack and our client uses Fucking Teams™ and it's a constant meme of audio not working, sharing not working, notifications not working, etc.

I just hate the thing. It's inferior in every way except that it's dirt cheap for the client and it's already there with office suite.

Office suite is another pet peeve of mine when it comes to sharing information. Just make a PDF! Do not share your .docx file. Half of my team don't even have an office suite installed. So we get 3 or 4 different renditions of the same document depending on where we open it in (Libre, Word regular, Word web, Google docs). Just make a god damn PDF!

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 day ago

"Microsoft" is too many syllables to say every time, "Apple" isn't.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

Ms Teams is popular in my experience