Our 30% in office policy so far seems like a light suggestion and as of now local management is not enforcing it and few are abiding by it. I live in constant fear of that changing.
Someone I know in banking just got the memo. 3 days a week in the office. They will check each week for the proceeding week
Client facing meetings do not count as a day ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Mrs Rugby is required Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. Shes finding it really hard.
Like. Impacting mental health hard.
This is stupid.
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Yeah ours is now Tu-Th. Me no likey.
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What is her issue?
office moving to shared desks, unless you plan/commit to average 4+ days in the office. this is indeed affecting everyoneās mental health.
Was trying to do the mental calculations of what WFH would be worth compared to being required to being in office.
Its probably somewhere between 25-40% pay increase based on how much time id lose per day on average to commuting / getting ready etc + happiness equity.
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White walls and florescent lighting is soul crushing.
Iāll never go back to an office, ever. I get to see my kids go to school and Iām here when they get back. Priceless. And Iām massively, obviously more productive without yambags.
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During a video meeting to explain the reasoning behind the changes, Clarke unleashed on his employees, saying he had deduced that some 30 employees had not opened their laptops for a month (the quiet quitters); wondering aloud if some remote employees were secretly working multiple jobs; and asking the company to increase productivity to ā30 to 50 times our normal productionā as a result of recent advances in artificial intelligence while also making reference to the āJudeo-Christian ethicā and noting, for unclear reasons, that he went to Oxford and Harvard.
All he was asking, he said, is that people come into the office and give their āblood, sweat, and tearsā to the company. āI challenge any of you to outwork me, but you wonāt,ā he added.
This guy sounds awesome, thinking of applying of course
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Office Space figured this out a quarter century ago.
The thing is, Bob, itās not that Iām lazy, itās that I just donāt care. Itās a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I donāt see another dime; so whereās the motivation?
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Saw some pre covid studies that suggested it was worth about 10%. Feels about right on average. More or less for different people of course.
I had two full time wfh (one mostly, one full) jobs for a year well before covid. I made a lot of money, but the stress was unsustainable.
I would start working 5am to midnight each day just to make him stay in the office.
these ceos are all pieces of shit.
What stress? Too much work? Maintaining the lie (I assume they didnāt know about each other)? Both?
Just work stress x2.
Did your coworkers do more or less work than you over this period relative to their assumed salaries?
I had no work at the main job. I complained to my boss. He told me I needed to create my own job. So I got a side job instead. FWIW I think most of the people in my group (one of two IT architecture groups at a 300k+ employee company) didnāt do much either. Our boss had basically hacked the system.
The startup side job was a ton of stuff to do for 6 months, then at some point after the 3rd or 4th pivot, everyone kind of figured out the product wasnāt going anywhere and started coasting and collecting a paycheck. But the meetings were still stressful because there was a lot of finger pointing. Iāll take stress of being completely overloaded with work over finger pointing stress any day.
Iād bet that 90% of the āquiet quittersā just donāt have any work to do, and donāt care enough to make a stink about it. Thatās on their management imo. But they probably donāt have shit to do either. Weāre too efficient now and a lot of companies are way over-employed, at least in some areas.
For the 3rd time, Iām about to quit a job where I work from home full time and little to nothing to do. I hate it. Last week I worked 4-6 hours/day because I actually had stuff to do. I liked it. This week nothing. Iāve worked a grand total of 2 hours. There are no projects on the immediate horizon. I deliberately hold back work so I wonāt be in this spot where I have nothing to do. And Iām pretty sure the rest of my team does too. But unfortunately thatās run out. Even 2 hours of work a day is much better than nothing.
Yes I could do some random proof of concept that no one cares about and will probably never go into production. But Iād rather just work on my book instead.
If I complain to my boss she just says ābuild me a data lake.ā No one knows why we need a data lake, or what we would do with it. But we know it sounds cool. Eff that. Iād still do it if she was serious. But sheās only brought it up twice - both times in response to me mentioning that I didnāt have much to do. Basically āgo sweep that corner that no one ever sweeps.ā IE - donāt bother me.
The truth is Iāve built a bunch of stuff and worked hard in the past. So now Iām super valuable because I can keep the trains running. So my boss doesnāt care if I do nothing for weeks at a time, because thereās nothing to do at the moment. I still hate it.
The person I call my boss is technically my bossās boss. My actual boss talks to me for 5 minutes every two weeks, and always asks if theyāre working me too hard. Iāve told him a dozen times thatās impossible, and I get way more stressed about not having stuff to do. It just simply doesnāt compute in his brain.