Posted on 07/22/2024 10:47:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The thronged Bryant Park area will soon be even more thronged.
Salesforce, the powerhouse software company that’s the largest tenant at 1095 Sixth Ave. at West 42nd Street, is poised to bring most of its employees back to their offices.
An internal Salesforce memo advised staff that most employees must return to their desks by Oct. 1, according to online news site San Francisco Standard.
The directive appeared to apply to Salesforce staff everywhere, not only in its San Francisco headquarters.
The reported memo said, “Select employees in sales, workplace services, data center engineering and onsite support technicians under the chief information officer will be required to come to the office four to five days a week, effective Oct. 1.”
Most other departments must report to offices three days a week.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Surely the possibility of the next pandemic makes going back into the office an unacceptable risk, right?
I’ll never go back into an office again. I’m thinner, saner, healthier and I get a helluva lot more work done - all the things companies claim they want. Any company too incompetent to manage a remote workforce isn’t worth my time.
I’ll be retired in about a year. But my company could convince me to retire tomorrow with one simple trick ...
“I’ll never go back into an office again. I’m thinner, saner, healthier and I get a helluva lot more work done - all the things companies claim they want.”
Some FR business titans claim that that’s impossible. (Not me - I’m now retired but quite successfully worked remote for 30+ years.)
Early this year we went to alternating 2/3 days a week in office. I’ve put on ten pounds. Less productive also. On the Thursdays when we work three days in a week, the whole department is pretty useless. Zero reason for us to be in an office together.
Many years ago I was a union laborer in NYC and my(late) father was a builder who renovated 100 Sixth Ave for HBO’s NYC HG.
I remember Bryant Park was bad even the cops wouldn’t go into it.
This was in the early 80s.
How things have changed. My first full-time ‘real’ job out of college had some written rules, which if violated, would lead to our termination. These rules included “All employees shall be at their desk or station and working no later than 8:00.” Some people (not I) found that to be strict and heavy handed. Today, they’d sue the boss for emotional distress.
Salesforce is awful. The Chairman/CEO it is an extremist liberal.
There are much better products out there for considerably less.
Yup—ordering employees into the office just means a bunch of them start looking for another job.
Most of them will have the street smarts to keep it on the down low....
and then turnover explodes in the next six months...
I share your assessment. One thing they do have going for them - their fanbois are rivaled only by Apple’s.
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Forcing return to office will not help much in that regard.
There is no return to the office for people who've never been there. We have staff from four states away. If we were to lose them, the whole thing collapses.
The remote workers run circles around the locals. It's not even close.
The Requests For Proposals we see include the statement: "Individuals can work from any location their company sees fit."
Still? Either tell the employees to show up or fire them. Simple. It was before the scamdemic.
Too much micromanagement keeps salespeople from selling.
In my opinion, there are less expensive and more preferable products.
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