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When there is no such thing as company loyalty, and your job can be done fully remote I understand the decision from many employes. From what I hear most, if not all the time, its better to switch companies then get a raise/promotion anyway.
As a side note, it seems like companys and banks are getting pretty desperate about the uselessness of office spaces, at least for tech fields and tech related work. Its going to be intresting watching how this all plays out.
@arstechnica They weren't going to be promoted anyway. And the few who would? Yay! You get a private office with a window now. That you already had at home. But this one you have to drive an hour each way to look out of, and the view here is of an opposing wall of windows and traffic instead of a flower garden with bees and goldfinches in it.
@arstechnica because "promotion" is a scam that is not worth enduring the scam of commuting.
every one of those staff who refused to return to redundant office site space is a climate champion, who has thereby become more employable to systems-thinking employers like us.
@arstechnica and most people don’t get promoted after some level, so this just removed the stress. No need to try to prove yourself anymore, just do your job, and turn the computer off at the end of the day.
Once had a sub-editor (I forget his exact title) at a Texas metro complain to me about how much time he spent in meetings. Never enough time to write, he said.
@arstechnica Tell me Dell has low employee morale without telling me they have low employee morale.
I keep hearing this claim that coming into the office increases collaboration. But, if this were the real reason, then companies wouldn't hire offshore developers who can only be collaborated with for two hours per day. It's OK to limit collaboration if the company saves money? Somehow it's not so essential, then?
There is some dishonesty about this, especially when people come in to attend video meetings.
@arstechnica@gemini6ice what a dumb policy from Dell. If you are remote you can't be promoted. C-suite still mad they lost so much power in a covid-changed world.