• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Dell announced a new return-to-office initiative earlier this year. In the new plan, workers had to classify themselves as remote or hybrid.

    Those who classified themselves as hybrid are subject to a tracking system that ensures they are in a physical office 39 days a quarter, which works out to close to three days per work week.

    Alternatively, by classifying themselves as remote, workers agree they can no longer be promoted or hired into new roles within the company.

    Holy corporate oppression, Batman! That’s a shitty deal no matter which option you choose.

    I’m glad they’ve got themselves into a sticky situation.

    Also, this observation was funny (in a sad way):

    One person said they’d spoken with colleagues who had chosen to go hybrid, and those colleagues reported doing work in mostly empty offices punctuated with video calls with people who were in other mostly empty offices.

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      4 months ago

      One major downside of hybrid working really is that if you are having a meeting where even a single person is not there, then the entire meeting may as well be a video call. If you are on a video call, then why do you need to be in the office for it?

      At my job we work with physical objects, so being in office is a requirement at least part of the time, but if I’m just going to be in meetings for most of the day, there is no way I’m going into the office just to sit on video calls all day.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      You mean to tell me, three days a week, they have to:

      • wake up extra hours early
      • pack a lunch or plan to pay for one
      • put on hard pants
      • drive their own vehicle in traffic, with their own gas and wear/tear
      • pay for their own parking.
      • do the exact same work in their designated space
      • drive back home in traffic 9 hours later

      All for the same pay and several hours away from my family, home, or bed?

      No fucking thanks.

      Going remote was the best fucking raise I ever got, and it didn’t cost them a dime.

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      4 months ago

      So you could just got he the office days straight and don’t show up for the rest of the year… interesting… but considering promotions are everything but lately i’d just go remote anyway.