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In America, half of the CEO's polled are considering workforce reductions in the next six months, and its likely, or extremely likely, that remote workers will be laid off first.


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2022 Oct 24, 7:29pm   1,202 views  17 comments

by Al_Sharpton_for_President   ➕follow (5)   💰tip   ignore  

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"The Great Resignation is about to become The Great Termination."

"If you work at home, you might want to start showing up at the office."

"it's really easy to fire people you don't know."

"Jim Bob, we hire him, and he's been working at home for the last two years, never seen his face, don't really know who he is. That's a really easy guy to terminate."

"Someone that's in the office, grinding it out everyday, showing his face, that's a much harder person to terminate because I know that person."

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1   exfatguy   2022 Oct 24, 7:33pm  

So if Jim Bob is a top performer you're gonna can him and keep the office brown noser that doesn't do anything? Sounds like how the typical CEO thinks.
2   Patrick   2022 Oct 24, 7:41pm  

exfatguy says

Sounds like how the typical CEO thinks.


Yes, I think that's correct.

I first heard the phrase "soaking up valuable face time" in reference to people in the office who were at least getting their live face in front of their manager. It's a real advantage of being there.
3   zzyzzx   2022 Nov 30, 11:32am  

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/snap-ordering-employees-back-office-054326337.html

Snap is ordering employees back to the office 4 days a week. CEO Evan Spiegel wants workers to sacrifice ‘individual convenience’ for ‘collective success’ in a policy called ‘default together’
4   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2022 Nov 30, 1:07pm  

Elon Musk setting the trend on "get your ass in the office or find another job."
6   NuttBoxer   2022 Dec 3, 8:00pm  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

"it's really easy to fire people you don't know."


Yeah, this is complete horse shit. The first company I ever worked at that did layoffs let this lady go who had been there for years, and lived and breathed that company. And they kept me, someone with no education in the field, who didn't give a shit. The only thing that matters in a layoff is the bottom line. Waste that gas if you want, but if it's more profitable to let you go, the only difference between you and Joe Remote will be getting fired to your face...
7   zzyzzx   2023 Apr 12, 7:52am  

https://www.businessinsider.com/emloyee-job-outsourced-to-india-after-remote-work-request-report-2023-4

An employee asked to go remote. Her CEO says he outsourced her job to India instead and saved 40% on labor costs.
8   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2023 Apr 13, 11:06am  

I'm intentionally sitting the Biden Administration out. The Enterprise's policy mirrors the White House and current Congressional policies to the letter.
I doubt I wouldn't have made it past any interviews under this President. Now I piss people off and give them a mental wedgie when I say that. But during Obama's admin, the company I worked for hired North African refugees most exclusively. As soon as Trump came in office, all of the employees from Turkey, and Syria all disappeared overnight. Then they hired only Vets or Blacks most exclusively. I imagine to get a job, as an Enterprise developer in a major corporation today, I would have to be a registered Democrat and list my pronouns on my resume. Or at least be effeminant at the interview.
9   Shaman   2023 Apr 13, 12:15pm  

zzyzzx says

https://www.businessinsider.com/emloyee-job-outsourced-to-india-after-remote-work-request-report-2023-4

An employee asked to go remote. Her CEO says he outsourced her job to India instead and saved 40% on labor costs.


In 2024 that will be changed to “replaced her with AI and saved 99% on labor costs.
10   Rin   2023 Apr 13, 12:24pm  

zzyzzx says

https://www.businessinsider.com/emloyee-job-outsourced-to-india-after-remote-work-request-report-2023-4

An employee asked to go remote. Her CEO says he outsourced her job to India instead and saved 40% on labor costs.


Here's a website, where anyone can do a back of the envelope calculation ...

https://livingcost.org/

For the most part, there are many countries outside of Bangalore Inc/South India, where one can save money by offshoring. India was the 2000-2010 story. Now, it can be anywhere.
11   mell   2023 Apr 13, 4:35pm  

Remote workers should be preferred in tech, you can do the work from anywhere and the co. saves a boatload of money in office space and "perks". Work delivered can easily be verified. I think AI will replace managers/hr/ops rather than those who actually build
12   AmericanKulak   2023 Apr 13, 6:00pm  

Shaman says

In 2024 that will be changed to “replaced her with AI and saved 99% on labor costs.

Until the Pakis get a hold of all the code and hold them for ransom.
13   NuttBoxer   2023 Apr 14, 8:01am  

Some companies have started to include internet stipends for remote workers, but no one's helping with electric costs for multiple monitors. They save a shit ton, and have better rested workers who aren't wasting time commuting, eating and drinking free shit, and socializing.
14   RWSGFY   2023 Apr 14, 8:55am  

NuttBoxer says

Some companies have started to include internet stipends for remote workers, but no one's helping with electric costs for multiple monitors. They save a shit ton, and have better rested workers who aren't wasting time commuting, eating and drinking free shit, and socializing.


Thing is: management has poured so much money into all these offices in "desirable" locations (like ess eff) they can't admit they were wrong. So instead of their ass flying out of the window it's engineers asses being dragged into the office.
15   mell   2023 Apr 14, 9:03am  

RWSGFY says

NuttBoxer says


Some companies have started to include internet stipends for remote workers, but no one's helping with electric costs for multiple monitors. They save a shit ton, and have better rested workers who aren't wasting time commuting, eating and drinking free shit, and socializing.


Thing is: management has poured so much money into all these offices in "desirable" locations (like ess eff) they can't admit they were wrong. So instead of their ass flying out of the window it's engineers asses being dragged into the office.

Yeah. but these companies will not survive unless they are on the government payroll. The next revolution has begun axing the bloated mgmt and office structure. Those who don't come on board won't make it
16   NuttBoxer   2023 Apr 14, 10:03am  

Most companies do seem to lease their office space, at least the ones I've worked for, so should give them flexibility to go either way. Although I've also worked at a number of them who did pretty big renovations.

Republic Services was all in office when I worked there, now with the exception of management, they are fully remote.
17   zzyzzx   2023 May 2, 7:39am  

https://fortune.com/2023/04/28/remote-workers-lyft-return-to-office-mandate-after-layoffs/

On Thursday, Lyft’s new CEO laid off over 1,000 employees. On Friday he ordered remaining ones back to the office

A substantial number of employees have grown accustomed to working from home in recent years, but CEOs are increasingly issuing return-to-office mandates. Lyft is the latest example, but what makes its mandate notable is its timing.

One day after new CEO David Risher laid off more than 1,000 employees, or about 26% of its corporate workforce, he told remaining workers they must head back to the office. The one-two punch may help the ride-sharing company avoid the problem of employees not taking such mandates seriously.

Just a year ago, Lyft announced it was “now a fully flexible workplace,” boasting on its blog that employees would “have the choice of where to live and where to work.” They could “work from the office, at home, or any combination of the two,” it added.

No longer. Risher, who assumed the helm on April 17, will require workers to come in Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with Tuesdays recommended, beginning after Labor Day, he told the New York Times, adding that he saw the moment as an opportunity to have a “cultural reset.”

In February, Lyft announced projected earnings that fell well short of estimates, leading to the biggest single-day drop in its stock price in the company’s history. Compared with rival Uber, it has struggled to reach pre-pandemic levels of ridership among its users.

“At some point, I don’t think of this as just an Uber battle,” Risher told MarketWatch in late March. “It’s a battle against staying at home. How do we get people out? How do we get them playing and working together?”

He was referring to customers, but it seems he wants employees staying home less and working together more, as well.

Many remote workers, however, believe working from home is just fine and are not eager to return to pre-pandemic office and commuting routines. In a Pew Research survey published last month, 56% of respondents said working from home helps them get work done and meet deadlines, while 37% said it neither helps nor hurts.

Risher isn’t the only boss taking aim at remote work. With the pandemic in the rearview mirror, many CEOs have been demanding that remote employees spend more time in the office, among them Bob Iger at Disney, Robert Thomson at News Corp., and Howard Schultz at Starbucks.

One CEO, James Clarke of digital marketing firm Clearlink, worried aloud to staff that some remote employees might secretly be working for other companies, and that others could be freeing up time with A.I. tools that Clearlink wasn’t fully utilizing.

Meanwhile Sam Zell, a real estate magnate known for his colorful language, called remote work “a bunch of bullshit” at a luncheon in New York last week, adding, “Young people need to develop their skills, and you can’t develop those skills if you’re not in the office.”

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