Apple now has pushed back the return to office by a month and might even postpone it further, will Chevron follow suit?
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In California? Who knows with the Gavinator. I expect Texas will be going back full time no matter what.
Bottom line, everyone is going back. Therefore prepare yourself for the commutes, childcare and etc.
1c1poZQj, you “forgot” to copy and paste the lines where the author of that ridiculous piece of “opinion” in the Letters to the Editors of the New York Times points out that several employees got infected with COVID because of the ‘Not Zoom together — real together’, so the law firm had to close several times during 2020 and each time sent everyone home to quarantine for two weeks (and of course possibly infect relatives).
Not to mention that the same individual did not offer the slightest reference to the data that would backup such claims about “ team creativity and production” while working in the office, probably because this would be at odds to the political whiff that showed all along in that mediocre submission.
The bottom line is the “Variants” are not going to end. When they get through this round of variants they will just scroll through the alphabet just like they do in Hurricane season. According to Dr. Fakey, you jabbies are golden and the rest of you have 99+% chance of survival, unless you have become morbidly obese while laying in bed and attending all your Teams meetings and taking in 10’s of thousands of calories each day and now you made yourself “At Risk”. Embrace being able to move again and if you can’t, then there is the enabled network you can join and possibly get on the poster! Go back and never look back!!’
HOUSTON — This March, my partners and I paid special bonuses to all employees at my law firm in the heart of this city. Unlike at many other firms around the country, this $395,000 in bonuses — in addition to the $2.7 million in year-end bonuses — was not some apology or atonement for cutbacks stemming from the coronavirus economy. We wanted to reward all 90 of our employees for their record-breaking work in 2020: Our small, specialized, 28-year-old firm had its best year yet, and we did it mostly together.
Not Zoom together — real together.
In March 2020, a tidal wave of stay-at-home orders from local and state officials turned downtown Houston into the kind of a ghost town one might imagine when a hurricane is about to hit. We closed our office along with most other city businesses.
Advocates of the move hoped that working from home would not slow productivity significantly and could obviate the need for office space in the future. But in a remote-work setting, we never matched the team creativity and production we had taken for granted at our office. On Zoom, some people were distracted and anxious to leave meetings, but in person, they were engaged and animated — there was just no comparison.
Waaaaah, I don wanna go to work mommie, i wanna keep staying home and play x-box!
@1mnf, like you just did to fake upvote yourself? I didn't know how that was done. thanks
@wfx XOM is not the example you want here. They happen to be among the companies that required employees to sit at a specific location for tax abatement reasons. There’s a thread with a link on the XOM board on this website about this very thing.
I know you Boomers think that everybody needs to be at the office, but trust me, people slack-off as much if not more at the office than they do with WFH.
And clearing your browsing history to repeatedly downvote every comment you don’t like isn’t fooling anyone. For some reason a lot of people are doing this here, especially on posts about vaccines; I don’t get it.
XOM has bigger problems than we do. They are a total dumpster fire.
Don’t worry, you easily can survive “The Election Infection”!
It’s all about $$ and real estate. Has nothing to do with people or welfare.
Fake(and old) news, and not relevant to the business need for the office workforce to be in place full time at a major O&G player. Watch how XOM runs circles around us as we delay full return.
You're welcome.
@pyv Apple is in the office three days per week. I’m not sure I’m following you here.
Most O&G companies are requiring office employees to show up for tax reasons. They’ve negotiated large breaks on local property taxes, and many stand to lose them if the buildings remain unoccupied or unused. In counties with high property taxes (i.e most counties), this can add up to tens of millions dollars for each unoccupied building.
Now everyone knows why management wants people back at the office. You’re welcome.
Xom here, we’ve been back at Houston campus since March.
we are not apple
we are not a tech company
get real!
15 days to slow the spread…Day 512
We will NEVER go back to normal. The vast number of people who complied with the state mandates showed tptb that they can do this forever. The middle class will be completely destroyed in order to make more room for globocorps. You will be put on a mandated vax schedule (that you pay for via taxes) for the rest of your lives. In return you will be allowed to work for globocorp and rent your home from your local blackrock neighborhood.
Enjoy your freedom to choose between captain crunch and fruity pebbles though, because thats the only freedom youll have.
Don’t forget McKinsey will have say too
Delta, then Gamma and much later Zeta? We better start thinking of Back To Normal. Any more of this non-productive attitude and we’re done.
Highly doubt that WFH gets extended. MW said to beat the competition, he wants butts in seat by Sept. not sure how much a-s warming is going to help beat the competition 🤣
Chevron management now take their orders from Microsoft and Schlumberger. Maybe BCG will be consulted.