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Bosses wanting a return to office face off with workers who want to stay home
- jleyank 4y agoI can only speak for the unwashed masses who write, debug and test code…. If you don’t trust your people to deliver what they are supposed to deliver, why did you hire them? Why do you keep non-performers? On the other hand, if you can’t determine whether such people are delivering on their commitments and whether projects are advancing properly, why do they hire or keep you? I can see brainstorming when starting out on a product or application. Once it’s done, the best environment is to get out of the way and let people implement the design. If you’re brainstorming every week or less, you don’t know what you’re trying to do and the code’s going to be crap.
- mbrodersen 4y agoManagers who can’t manage people unless they are in a specific geographical locations every day should be fired for incompetency. I am dead serious. Management is about outcome not activity.
- bwestergard 4y agoI'm a software engineer at a media organization. My colleagues and I organized a union during the pandemic, long before "return to office" was on anyone's agenda. I'm so glad we are bargaining collectively instead of bargaining one on one with our supervisors. I personally want to work in the office periodically, but without a union contract I'd fear a slow creep toward obligatory presenteeism.
- mbrodersen 4y agoCompanies that insist on employees working in the office will simply be less competitive than companies that are WFH flexible. A large percentage of experienced developers will not apply for jobs that are inflexible. So inflexible companies might end up with employees who don’t have any other choices.