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[–] CazzoBuco@lemmy.world 132 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Only success I've seen being part of a RTO mandate is that everyone's pissed at management and looking to get out. Which is to say it was a success in not paying severance.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yup; success is relative.

It's somehow wonderful how masks-off many modern executives are. They're just outright going "rules are only for you fucking plebs. Now go sit in your cubicles and earn me some money", no more dancing around with the "we're all a big family" bullshit

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You guys have cubicles? I thought we’ve done away with that and mandated all offices to be deprived of walls and dividers since the 2010s in favor of open office floor plans? Someone get the office manager on the line.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 25 points 3 months ago

"Now go find a free work space from the booking system" doesn't quite have the same ring to it

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

You guys have floors? Our desks are on a net suspended over a gaping chasm

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Ffs the open office bullshit.

I just reserve meeting rooms for myself every day.

[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

They do the dance too though. Really weird.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The other "success" in that is that the people who are left, who succumbed to RTO, by definition are going to toe the company line more, and/or have less power to exercise in changing employers, meaning they can be more easily abused.

[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At the same time, those who stayed were probably not as skilled and thus weren't able to find other employment. So the company's overall quality is going to diminish.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

That's a problem for future CEO John Q. Moneybags. Present CEO John Q. Moneybags just improved this quarter's financials, and is already planning his golden-parachute retirement before becoming future Mr. Moneybags.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Very ironic that zoom does this

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

They could save others from the drudgery of office work, but not themselves.

The fact that the CEO of a company whose primary purpose is facilitating remote work doesn't believe remote work is effective is peak irony.

You might as well scream to the entire world that you think the service you're selling is a worthless sham. But then narcissistic executives tend to have this bizarre blindness to irony.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My jaw hits the floor as the dumbass-in-chief publicly doubles down.

Holy forking shirt balls.

I have so many questions. Specifically:

  • Which loved ones of which Zoom board members are locked in this guy's basement?
  • When do his short positions on Zoom stock mature?
[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Even Jason figured out we’re in the bad place

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

"JASON figured it out? Yeah...this one hurts."

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

.......Jason? The red ranger???

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I assume the success was reducing headcount by people quitting over RTO.

[–] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gets rid of the expensive employees who won't follow the rules and leaves openings for fresh graduates and employees who need the job. It's a win-win for these businesses!

Meanwhile the remote work opportunities are becoming more and more competitive as RTO reduces the pool of available remote jobs. It's hard enough to compete against 300 people applying in the first day (literally in some cases, it's insane!), this only makes it worse.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gets rid of the expensive employees who won't follow the rules and leaves openings for fresh graduates and employees who need the job.

Ah, you mean gets rid of people with the most skills and knowledge who find it easier to get a new job.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ya gotta wonder if ceos are paid for their lack of awareness.

ive yet to see a ceo salary that matched the benefit to the company.... as they demand of actual labor positions.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Ya gotta wonder if ceos are paid for their lack of awareness.

It is a requirement, yes.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The guy that thinks people will send ai clones of themselves to meetings?

That guy?

The guy that thinks a meeting populated only by fake people will be Zooms future? But also isn't investing in any of this tech, just thinks it will "happen"?

How has their stock not gone to zero with this clown in charge?

[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 3 months ago

Dr. Collier made a 50 minute long video explaining how much of a stupid that idea is. That guy is an incompetent clown that fell upwards.

https://youtu.be/dKmAg4S2KeE