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This is silly when you go into work to remote into meetings with others sitting at their desk in the build across the street. Facebook, Google, Apple have been
by ipaddr 3y ago
This is silly when you go into work to remote into meetings with others sitting at their desk in the build across the street.
Facebook, Google, Apple have been laying off people. The return to office was about real estate, local power and getting employees to move or quit.
- benatkin 3y agoThat's very much intentional, they often strongly want teams to be in the same room for a significant percent of the time, but vastly prefer internal remote to external remote. There does seem to be a gain for the company, one that very often isn't necessary but all other things equal the company will try to capture. I see the argument that remote work should be mandated as part of labor rights in many more cases than it currently is. Until it is, companies like these will continue to favor on-site work. I need to get out of the habit of calling it in-person work and instead call it on-site work in these cases. Most on-site work has a significant telework component. I should also call it telework when it's on site to avoid confusing it with true remote work. Or whatever the most clear terms are.