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Absolutely, especially those young people without families. Their apartments are likely small and not very nice as well. Staying home when you have kids, a nice house with lots of space and amenities is way different than being crammed into a small apartment with a couch, bed and laptop.
Seeing the entire Android team has quit. Could be an interesting weekend and then Monday, the WC starts so expect all time peak traffic.
At least he can laugh at himself, what else is there to say here
Yea deleted after I saw thatFunny but his profile says mostly parody account so...
I’m not aware of any policy in place (other than Covid laws previously), that was preventing anyone from working at the office if they wanted. Until now of course when everyone is blocked from the office.
Maybe. But many younger people are content to communicate/socialize primarily via their devices. Ever seen a group of kids texting while seated together?
You should check out this thread too.
This will make a great episode on the HBO series.
Agree with this 100%.
I don’t think it would take down the whole economy at all, but I do think it would have the potential to cause a lot of problems for Tesla. A large part of their stock price is based off people’s trust on Elon IMO, and that is taking a beating right now.
I don't understand 40% of the words used in that thread. I understand more about quantum mechanics or non-eucludian geometry than financial instruments.
Even if he asked nicely. Even if he gave three months notice.
It was from a parody account.
The litter of quitters at Twitter are becoming quite bitter.
Perhaps a baby sitter would have been a good fit fer the billionaire who flushed his cash down the ****ter.
He's saving approximately $1.5m a minute in salary.
Isn't the archaic part forcing people to be in the office whether they want to be or not? A great many companies have policies in which employees can choose whether they want to work in the office or from home.
On the WFH stuff I find a ton of different arguments. I personally find the argument "you are more productive when you're in the office" and/or "you need to be in the office so I can keep an eye on you" which Musk is making to be archaic for certain. That sort of black/white thinking is very archaic IMO. Of course WFH is not for everyone nor can everyone do it well. That's different than the construct itself being archaic. I don't think that's been said. A TON of people had their eyes opened to what I've known for 20 years. WFH is going to become a benefit of employment at some point. It will be valued/factored differently from one person to the next for sure.
I agree with you. We're dreading the WFH movement from the opposite end of the spectrum. Certain positions and jobs will never be able to work from home and we've already lost good people to those WFH jobs and it's starting to limit the candidate pool. Our people with experience are leaving for it because it's something new that fits their schedules better. The younger crowd seems much less interested in cubical working these days. It's really limiting the candidate pool and what we're viewing as an acceptable new hire.
It isn't just the younger crowd. Nobody is interested in working in a cube
True, but it was easier to find people to do it when everyone else had to do it too.
Oh no doubt. The times are a changing though
Except for mimes.
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Musk is cleaning house of useless employees. They will be replaced with people who actually do work (probably 1 hire for 5 or more that quit/fired) and you will find out that twitter did not need nearly the # of employees they had. It will not be going anywhere.
Pandemic realizations are going to have a meaningful impact on a lot of industries IMO. You give a really good example of what I'm talking about. It's my guess that some will want to have a job where this sort of thing is an option and not all jobs can be done this way. It's likely going to create shortages in those areas not unlike the push when I was a kid where the only "successful" people in life were "college educated". Look what that did to our trade industries. There are going to be similar impacts to industries where WFH isn't an option IMO.
Add in that a lot of companies have redone offices so people don’t have their own cubes any more. But shared spaces or have to reserve spaces when they do go in. My wife’s office did this. Prior to covid she was working 2 days a week at home. Even before sending everyone home they had a plan to reconfigure office space like that. So now if she goes in, she reserves space…doesn’t have her same monitor set up…obviously nothing personal in any cube space and so on. She hates going in as often she is on the phone to other offices in the US and in other countries that is a pain if having to share space.
Yup. So industries/positions that require working in the office may have to find other ways to attract good employees. Higher pay, better benefits packages, bonuses, etc, may be required. The problem is that upper management/clients are very slow to understand this. Rather than quickly adapt and realize that you’re going to have to pay 20% more to retain and gain good employees, they resist it because “that’s not what we pay those positions” and so those workers go find other jobs where they can work from home or go somewhere else that adapts quicker and increases compensation.
