I hate to go as cliche as “surprising absolutely no one,” but really, this is not a surprise.
well i’m shocked shocked i say
@Powderhorn In our company, we have theoretically had a “one day at home per week” rule for several months now. In practice, people usually work about 3 days a week at home. This is partly due to the fact that there is a works council agreement for some of my colleagues that is binding and can’t be overruled by management (thanks for German labor law!).
I have seen another contributing factor in CS: it is really hard for the management to keep a good senior to junior ratio ie. A lot of juniors are trying to enter the workforce today. It means that during covid and shortly after the companies definitely relaxed as much as they could the geographical constraints for senior remote roles, also being senior they trusted them to work remotely not needing too much direct supervision. And now it backfires when your company is in silicon valley and you ask your senior developer from the boonies Colorado to move to an industrial concrete jungle.
Agreed!
Who could have fucking predicted
Unless that was the point and this plus big layoffs are meant to lower salary ranges for tech
Sure as fuck happened to journalism. Except they had the balls to offer buyouts instead of just saying “your service counts for nothing unless I see the back of your head every time I meander around with a coffee mug.”
The truly absurd bit of it to me is absent Covid, already working remote for years would not have been a problem. I went remote in 2016, and there’s no fucking way I’d be like “oh, the recent grads you hire to chew and spit out are an issue for remote? Sure, why don’t I restart the pointless thing of driving for an hour and a half a day with concomitant fuel costs, having to choose my food for the entire day at 7 a.m. or paying four times as much, and generally being more surly in my personal life so that you, dear boss, can prove you have something to do?”
