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"Managers will be judged", meaning if an employee does not want to relocate, it is their direct manager's problem. Sounds like a great way to ruin a working dev
by castratikron 4y ago
"Managers will be judged", meaning if an employee does not want to relocate, it is their direct manager's problem. Sounds like a great way to ruin a working dev-boss relationship.
- sargun 4y agoWhy not just have the manager take everyone's badge, and use it every day? I wonder if the timing on RFID is loose enough to proxy it over the web.
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- slt2021 4y agoinfosec will see badged people connecting to remote VPN instead of in-office wifi. Just don't cheat and fraud, easily detectable
- buildbot 4y agoIf the only way to detect this "fraud" is that VPNs are in use, then why bother returning to the office? Seems like it's only a cost center with no added benefit.
- samtho 4y agoControl. The old guard of large business cannot stand that people have their own lives away from work and how will they know that someone is actually working rather than collecting a paycheck?
- mathverse 4y agoIt is actually odd they perceive it like this. I work much harder from home than I ever did from the office. It is impossible to hide doing WFH like one can do “endlessly” collaborating with your colleagues at the office.
- guhidalg 4y agoNot odd at all. First-level managers may still have a tenuous grasp of being an empathetic person, but managers of managers are only interested in growing their kingdom. To that end, WFH makes it harder for them to demonstrate a need for more headcount. Let me make it very clear: Employees that WFH are more productive, so you don't need more of them. If you don't need more headcount, the executive has no use. If the executive has no use, they will be executed (symbolically, as a re-org).
- raverbashing 4y agoIt's not odd, it's 50% incompetence 50% feelings of self-importance
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- slt2021 4y agothere are countless ways to detect fraud, these days we leave digital footprints all over the place, I just gave one simple example how to do it in 5 minutes with 2 SQL queries
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoOr maybe just don't cheat because it's not ethical?
- gnicholas 4y ago> if an employee does not want to relocate, it is their direct manager's problem Doesn't OP say that this only applies to employees that live within 40 miles of an office? It sounds like if you're remote, you're not affected.
- preinheimer 4y ago40 miles is pretty far. That's pretty easily an hour long commute, and maybe one you weren't planning on making.
- lostdog 4y ago40 miles in silicon valley is a 90+ minute commute each way.
- gnicholas 4y agoOh I know — I live here. But GP is talking about people not being willing to relocate (as in, from other places back to near an office). That isn't required.
- derefr 4y ago40 miles is quite a lot if you don't own a car. In the city I live in, it would take me several hours of commuting (including several inter-system transfers) to get to an office that's 40 miles away from me.
- brianwawok 4y agoThats not how most of the US works.
- derefr 4y agoThe big tech companies executing on these return-to-office "strategies" aren't in "most of the US"; they're in very specific large metropolitan areas of the US (and also, large metropolitan areas of other countries.)
- nashashmi 4y agoSo managers with more pull have less reason to care.