Do you think we should go back to your parents' work-life balance? Do you want to dedicate 12 hours of your week simply traveling to work, unpaid? Can you acknowledge that we currently have it much better than your parents did?
It's mostly ass-backwarss in studios like this: rank and file constantly highlight busted tools and workflow, managers constantly say they understand and promise that change is coming before going back to whatever silly vanity project they're currently forcing through so they can brag about it in the interview for their next job.
And that's the point of progress even if you go back to the Roman times of blacksmiths making swords and shields. As time goes on, technology advances making it easier to churn out stuff, and much easier on human hands (less manual work as PC and robots do a lot of the pain in the ass stuff).Couldn't said it better about the whole loyality thing. It's corporate brainwashing at its best.
It's also wery weird to me that people here are defending work from office with productivity stats. It's been decades since workers were properly compensated for increase in their productivity:
Greasy? WTF?
Thats because a lot of people (especially younger people or techie people) are anti-social nowadays. They prefer texting and online communication. Sit on the couch or PC desk being lone wolves. You can already see it during the internet age where kids are barely around outside riding bikes or playing football or street hockey. Instead they are at home on the couch. If they can get through life communicating through bits and bytes than actually talking to someone face to face, it's like a major victory. It's one part growing up with it and one part personality.
While working from home.Meanwhile millionair CEOs seeing poor people complain amongst each other about how better off the other one is.
What do you think of this?
Oh no, someone didn’t upload a profile pic on Microsoft Teams. The horror.
You don't have to be an unsympathetic dick. Many people rebuilt their whole lives around WFH, just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it is remotely acceptable to point fingers at people and trivialize their discomfort with having to go back to the office because someone who gets paid 100 times more than them doesn't care more than 1% what they think.
I don't have to, it's a choice.
And this is where the issue lies, they should have probably read the small print before any major decisions. Otherwise they should have accepted the risk.
A lot of middle managers that are unwilling to admit that they’re bad managers. They’re passing the buck, as per the usual. They’re incapable of providing honest feedback to their subordinates and holding them accountable as a requirement of their own job. They don’t clearly communicate expectations and timelines, and make up bullshit reasons why things aren’t working. Notice how you don’t see any specific scenarios at an individual level, it’s all percentages and generalities.
Both things can be and frequently are true
They want everybody to hate their job as much as they hate their own. That or they are jealous that they do not have the option to WFH with their profession.
It's really not. Many developers did it before and do it today, thanks to conference systems and collab suites like GitHub. Developing games is actually probably the best example of where working from home works most efficiently, now that the short term issues have essentially been reduced.
We're also going with 2 days/week at the office starting in October.
Maybe some are lazy. But think of it like parent and child. Managers call the shots. If they can figure out how to go back to the office like pre-covid it cant be hard for anyone else to do the same. If someone wants to adjust their personal life style during WFH in such a way they dont want to or cant, thats their problem to figure out. Not the company or any other coworker. Dont adjust your sleeping habit so you can only get up at 9 am, dont move to a new house 2 hours away, and get back. How it can be that impossible to go bac 2 days a week when everyone else (including them pre covid) can figure out how to go 5 days a week cant be that hard to solve.
You really think that 64.6% gain in the last 44 years is solely down to the worker and not the massive computerized capital?Couldn't said it better about the whole loyality thing. It's corporate brainwashing at its best.
It's also wery weird to me that people here are defending work from office with productivity stats. It's been decades since workers were properly compensated for increase in their productivity:
A lot of people rebuilt a lot around the so called "emergency" pandemic response. Swallow that, and acknowledge that it is now the reason the world economy is on the brink of collapse.
I know at work 5 people who moved far out. Their commute is now at minimum 1.5 hours each way. One guy is close to 2 hrs. Probably more people I dont know about. They should count their lucky ass stars my work is pretty lax and they have to come to the office 1 day per week. They are ok with commuting 1 day per week.
I will not, thanks. Of course you view management from the parent/child lens.
I mentioned a couple of times I work in game dev.
The answer you get is: "Well, I'm at home and dont have to commute or get washed and dressed for work. I'm more refreshed and can focus more on work.
Your manager isn't on GAF, dude. You're venting at someone you don't know.
Thanks for the feedback! Retired though, actually.
ding ding ding!
who hurt you?Welcome to the real world entitled babies.
Instead of treating 3.5 years of covid WFH as a super long temporary perk where you saved on commute time and spending money on gas, eating out and impressing people with new clothes, it's time to get your ass to the office. Most people still had to slog it to work even during covid wearing masks, using sanitizer stations and all, instead of waking up at 8:55 am to log into your corporate PC by 9 am.
No company would had ever put in writing covid WFH is a permanent thing for life. Even companies giving up the lease forcing workers to be at home, they might change their minds 5 years later and sign up for new office space.
Some people must be super anti-social not wanting to see or chat with coworkers. Let me guess. They all claim to be the most productive workers being lone wolves at home. Saving time on commuting, wasting money, ohhh and ahhhh I'm so much more refreshed and productive.
My company had a 2 year mandatory WFH, but a lot of us were itching to go back. There's only so many awful MS Teams meetings with people who never go on cam and dopey 2 minute icebreaker jokes where everyone on screen is staring in bordeom you can take.
Worker productivity now at lowest in 75 years: Report
Is remote, hybrid work to blame?www.hcamag.com
American worker productivity is declining at the fastest rate in 75 years—and it could see CEOs go to war against WFH
EY-Parthenon's Gregory Daco reveals what's going on with the American worker's worst slump of the post-World War II era. It's not all about remote work, he says.finance.yahoo.com
That reason is because they are paying for unused real estate or management is boomers that just want people back, or both.
Calm down, Karen.
go lick them boots.
Working just fine for myself, the team & my manager.
lol, love to see the rage of the blue collar worker on display
