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10 years ago, they had access to cheap credit, offices full of people working hard 8 hours or more, solid product portfolios, no visible limits on growth, and f
by jollyllama 4y ago
10 years ago, they had access to cheap credit, offices full of people working hard 8 hours or more, solid product portfolios, no visible limits on growth, and foreign competition was weak.
Fast forward to today. Credit is drying up. Devs feel entitled to WFH, and shorter work days (via WFH) and managers are nervous. Their products have regressed, they are actually worse than 10 years ago. Foreign firms like TikTok are now serious competitors.
Perhaps most disturbing to the C-Suite, once they strip away all of the covid #'s, they can tell growth is or will be declining. It's not just about being revenue positive, it's about the derivative. In this situation it's standard procedure to reign in costs and send a message both to investors and the organization that they want the org to become leaner and meaner. They're not just copying each other, all of these companies are in the same position and this is how execs are trained to act in this situation.
- bsg75 4y ago> Devs feel entitled to WFH, and shorter work days (via WFH) and managers are nervous. _Shorter_ work days? If anything mine are longer, even considering time I no longer spend commuting. Any Dev "entitled" to shorter work days seems unlikely to have a long tenure. Source: Am manager, who codes 50% or more of my time. Nobody I work with feels "entitled" to work less.
- jollyllama 4y agoA lot of people have posted here about how when the WFH they don't do a full eight hours, and because of that they say they would never not want the option to WFH. Ok, I'm not explicitly against that, but they should be arguing for a shorter work day. This then gets lumped together with people who feel entitled to WFH for other reasons.