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Agree but Microsoft has more going for it than just remote work support. My wife switched from Microsoft to a much younger, hip tech company and her quality of
by qwerpy 2y ago
Agree but Microsoft has more going for it than just remote work support. My wife switched from Microsoft to a much younger, hip tech company and her quality of life plummeted. The higher work intensity, forced RTO, and the overall lack of parents at the company and especially at the leadership levels made for an unsympathetic place for her to work while dealing with the day to day life of a parent to young children. RTO would not have been an issue at Microsoft even if they had mandated it due to the increased flexibility and chill. And the fact that it's in a safe suburb rather than the somewhat problematic streets of our west coast city. She chose to quit her job to be a stay at home mom. Despite all the lip service paid to supporting women's careers, the tech industry is showing its true colors.
- wing-_-nuts 2y ago>the tech industry is showing its true colors. I'm not sure a WLB issue with one company is reflective of the tech industry as a whole. If anything, it seems the tech industry is much more accommodating to the needs of flexibility than other similarly paying industries like medicine, law, finance, etc. That, in and of it self raises an issue with modern work culture. There's currently a bit of a panic happening amongst those who study demographics. People are having less kids, and the pressures of modern living are part of the problem. I think the only way you're going to turn that trend around is by being way more flexible with and accommodating with workers. Either WLB gets better, or demographic collapse gets worse. Modern society has some choices to make.