Posted on 03/24/2023 8:48:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
In June 2022, Apple CEO Tim Cook sounded pretty philosophical about remote work. "We're running the mother of all experiments,” he said at the TIME 100 symposium in New York, “because we don't know," he trailed off. Just a couple months later, though, he ordered staff back three days a week. And now he’s reportedly threatening to discipline the holdouts. In other words, the experiment may be losing steam.
Apple is threatening to level disciplinary action against workers who fail to come into the office for three-fifths of the working week, Zoë Schiffer, managing editor of tech newsletter Platformer, tweeted on Wednesday. She added that it is tracking employees via ID badge swipes, and some managers may give escalating warnings that could ultimately lead to termination.
"At Apple, some orgs are saying failure to comply could result in termination, but that doesn't appear to be a company-wide policy," Schiffer added.
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What I find funny is that traffic is finally back to being as bad as it was ptr-Covid.
...But why? With most everyone home two or three days—or more—out of the work week? Everything is at home: Family. Food. Work. Why are the rats still racing at 8am and 5pm?
The vaxx is the mother of all experiments. Tim Cook is a creepy homo.
They are headed to walk their dogs at the dog park.
It’s San Francisco. Maybe they are going to the local bathhouse.
My company is going to stop leasing one building in my area. We will have a table to bring our laptops to, when we need to visit.
Otherwise, it’s work from home all but a couple days a quarter.
I love how Elon got rid of 75% of the workers and Twitter still functions…. 🧐🧐🧐
Started with 7,500. Now it’s around 1,300.
Integrating work life and home life is a good thing.
They said production was up and costs were down with remote work.
Must just be a control thing now.
The Tech companies can get away with this.....for now....because the Tech bubble has finally burst and they are laying off people anyway.
Fortunately, that is not true of many other industries who are short of workers as is....meaning employees of those companies have a lot more leverage. That is particularly true of experienced workers and those in fields which are in high demand. A large percentage of workers simply do not want to return to the office - and they know they don’t need to.
Yep. Funny how Twitter hasn’t collapsed like the Lefties kept claiming it would. So now we know that about 80% of Twitter’s workforce was not productive.
I'm sure a lot of management likes having the ability to walk the aisles of the cube farms and oversee people directly....even when they have little to do. So that's a part of it. Part has been that politicians have been putting a lot of pressure on companies to try to force workers back into the office because commercial real estate is dying and big cities are starting to feel some pain too.
A lot of companies sign long term leases for office space so you've got to wonder if they don't start dramatically downsizing their office space AND you've got to wonder too as people become more and more comfortable that they are going to be able to work 100% remote sustainably when they start moving away from big cities. Some already have, but it hasn't turned into a flood yet. It easily could. And a lot of the ones who would be moving away would be more highly paid White collar types cities rely on via taxes and other spending to essentially pay the bills for everything.
That's the boat I'm in. Give it another year or two to let me become convinced I can do this permanently and I'll move to the outer outer outer suburbs or even further away. Why should I put up with the higher crime, pollution, traffic, taxes and expense of city life if I know I won't ever have to commute into work again?
Smaller companies with better hiring practices might offer better remote work opportunities for honest/reliable employees, and thereby gain a business advantage.
“I’ll move to the outer outer outer suburbs or even further away.”
I am retired now—but I made the move to the sticks first—and then got lucky that my employer figured out that remote work made sense for us.
That was more than ten years ago...
The key to remote work is to fire the stupid managers that can’t figure out how to manage remote work.
Once they are gone most white collar businesses gain in efficiency, save on real estate and related overhead and improve employee morale.
I’ve warned people for years that a job that could be done remotely can usually be done in Asia; I believe a lot fo the tech workers recently laid off were remote workers.
Remote work is fine for people with a certain work ethic and a certain type of work; I found it cumbersome compared to the office (and want my work and play separated). My employer doesn’t pay rent to use part of my space for my job; a short commute makes the office preferable as well.
and i know consulting is different than software development.
Right.
Check in periodically. Makes sense.
Makes it impossible to work from home in Fiji or Hawaii or Costa Rica though. LOL.
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