Remote worker here! Return to work is having a severe negative effect in this place! The most experienced people are leaving or being let go in favor of retaining the least competent people. Just because someone happens to already work in an office or is able to return to an office doesn't make them a good choice for retention. Remote workers that are high performers have been erased and more erasures are coming in the next 30 to 60 days. Someone with a brain needs to stop this madness. How d-mb is it to let go of the highest performers, regardless of office or remote status? The lack of productivity in the California offices is easily visible with people arriving late and leaving early, standing around gossiping all day, roaming halls looking for friends, taking 3 hour lunch breaks, and practically barricading themselves in conference rooms to avoid their desk. There is a reason why these people have never escaped an office setting. They aren't productive workers! Meanwhile, the remote workers that are still employed are working their butts off to keep things moving. Where is leadership? Return to office is failing. This stupidity is going to catch up to the company in the quarters ahead when all that is left are the unproductive slackers.
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The goal of RTO is to reduce headcount, especially for people who may have been hired during the pandemic, who may have been cheaper than their Silicon Valley counterparts, and so otherwise may not have been hired at all. It's an Ops reduction decision. If you're a manager hire locally when you can, you will find someone good enough to do the job. It's the way business has worked for, let's see, always.
They have zero idea of how much talent they are losing because they don’t care.
Just a bottom feeding dr-g dealer.
Different game.
“Less competent workers” comment above is bullsh-t. Broadcom has zero idea how much talent they are losing. Some of the best VMware has ever had got let go while some of the biggest slackers are still there. Fu-k Broadcom and Fu-k Hock Tan. He is a capitalist pig who will rot in he-l.
Transfer to a different Broadcom office. That is allowed. I am in office where no one is from same division.
RTO is important for control. Hock is too old and stuck in his ways to accept the fact that people actually have the discipline to function and operate without being in a soul su-king cube land. HE can't manage his time or avoid the distraction of watching cartoons on the couch in his underoos, so he assumes everyone else has that same mentality. There's also the "beautiful San Jose campus" that has no snacks, overpriced vending machines and is being sold off piece by piece that you can enjoy for sacrificing a little of your personal time with only a 2 hour commute! Think of how productive Zooms are when youre sittingin your cube next to someone also in another cube on a Zoom.. so much collaboration.
RTO is getting rid of the best people
Yes, because keeping the best people is not import.
This is the way ! :)
Imagine being a remote worker with remote teammates.
You are told to go to an office, but none of your coworkers will be in that office.
They are in other offices all over the country or around the world.
You continue to do the same work you would remotely, using email, messaging, Zoom, but now you are in an office, by yourself, except the scenery is different and you now have a 2 hour commute one way to be there.
Make it make sense.
To blanket demand RTO across the entire organization is wrong-headed thinking and stinks of managerial incompetence
Not managerial incompetence, CEO callousness.
Only one person is responsible for these hunger games.
Hey hey, ho ho, this douchebâg has got to go.
Reply to Post ID: @1bli+1u1Cqodw
I'm calling BS* on your comment. While it is true people in redundant positions and poor performers were let go, far too many high performing individuals have also been let go and are about to be let go because of the way RTO is being executed. It's true, some roles should be in an office setting, but it's also true some roles don't need to be or shouldn't be. To blanket demand RTO across the entire organization is wrong-headed thinking and stinks of managerial incompetence, a failure to understand modern work settings, or an unethical agenda to get rid of people.
is the sign of an IT manager …
No, it is the sign of Kim Hock Un’s policy.
Managers have nothing to do with it.
Rápe the customers, fück the employees.
Lather, rinse, and repeat.
A lot of remote workers who are competent and in critical positions are still doing fine. But less competent remote workers were removed or asked to go to office.
Reply to Post ID: @uux+1u1Cqodw
"In-office is company policy. Deal with it."
The inability or disinterest to recognize who is a high performer and/or who is not is the sign of a lazy or disconnected manager. The inability or disinterest to use technology to connect workers, regardless of location/distance, is the sign of an IT manager that doesn't practice what they preach. Mediocrity and ultimately failure will result if poor performers are the only people left to run an organization. I can only assume generationally or culturally you haven not caught up to the modern world. In the West, a good manager knows remote employees are more productive than in-office workers - study after study has settled any question to the contrary. In the East, keeping people chained to a desk is the only way to keep them producing. Yep, that's cold and you may falsely accuse me of xenophobia, but those are the facts of this world at present.
In-office is company policy. Deal with it.