How will you enforce this short of installing spyware on PCs which companies are doing in increasing numbers
Also, real estate values. Many renewals have butts in seats requirements as the landlords feel left out not collecting at the deli in the basement and parking lots. So it's 5 days a week to make the one landlord richer
I could see if I were a CEO or leadership and saw this over a large sample set I would freak out and implement a RTO. I would realize it is true that clocking in and clocking out may work great on an assembly line a century ago in a factory and people clocking in 15 minutes would hit numbers FAST, however I can't have people logging in only 4 to 5 hours a day.
We have spyware at my employer in which I HATE so my boss let me know when he caught me tired using my phone to log into teams and it was 8am and not 7am that one day. But the other option is he sends me into the office 5 days a week.
But how do you measure productivity? This things are hard. Is it projects? How do you determine the correct labor hours for a project? A previous employer had this drop and they got rid of hybrid work and it is one of the reasons I left.
I like to think we are all adults but I do admit I goofed one day and so has everyone else every now or then. I also have a friend at a bank and he said RTO fixed IT issues like a bank manager needing to get a block removed for a new credit card for a customer. No one would answer in Teams and it was hours later. After RTO instant contact. So return to office was a success and leaders agreed remote work is just not effective and we debated this.
Internal data and other sources such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed workers averaged 2.6 hours less than their in office counterparts. AAA touted WFH as the great savior of new talent until their spyware revealed people logged in less than 4 hours a day. Now it is BUTS IN SEATS after the CEO saw this.
Microsoft said they would continue their WFH and hybrid policy unless there was a drop in productivity. I guess part of their new collaboration aka PHB term for micro managing people to track attandance, potty time, and phone use, is now all the rage.
Part of me is so angry. A few bad apples blew it! I work in IT like many
The data now vs 2020 is polar opposite and people took advantage of it. Now I have to commute and waste 30 hours a month driving and tearing up my expensive car so I can be watched at work like I am 12 because people lack accountability and self discipline. I am also dissapointed as I thought society would evolve in a new era as the office was an outdated 19th/20th century concept. Oh well.
We have hybrid now yes but I knew one colleague who worked a 2nd job in secret and got caught and over employed was huge on Reddit so you are right.
IT did have remote roles pre COVID but these mandates hit them too as no one is allowed to work anymore at home for a lot of these companies. We waste so much on gas and time just to take calls an hour a way each day
If everyone and their brother is RTO now. Target and Klarna also justed all all WFH this week as well then there is a good reason.
I really do think login hours and reports like I described is why and theory X not Theory Y management is the main factor. If every employee works 2 hours a day that is 40 hours of lost productivity a month assuming a 20 day work week in the eyes of management every month
How is Linux, kubernetes, and other open source advancing without an actual office
Collaboration is code for micro managing as they don't trust their employees to work independently.
If there is a deadline I don't want my employees leaving at 3pm to beat the 2 hour commute with traffic and pick up a kid. I don't want my employees to have stress from their marriage but forcing them to come home late so I can watch them work.
In such an event working late at home together gets it done more efficiently
They don't exist anymore. It's all in office now or hybrid if you are very lucky. It's so frustrating
I don't buy it. That might have worked for Twitter and Amazon back in 2022 when there was places still remote to jump but not today.
Name one employer that is remote? Salesforce RTO, Amazon RTO, Oracle RTO, Meta RTO, etc. Target and Klarna joined the return to office bandwagon too.
Literally that and Musk forcing the government to RTO destroyed the phenomenon and it's all pre COVID. Bosses don't trust people to work at home anymore is why
What by being watched like children to make sure they are not 5 minutes late or have their phones with managers staring at their screens? That is how they progress?
Every tech giant is 5 days a week or hybrid now. These places are the best to work at and prestigious?! If even they can't trust their employees to stay productive then what hope does anyone else? I blame you all (mostly WFH techies ruining that)
BLS and AAA showed employees login 2.6 hoursless hours per day than their in office counterparts. AAA as a result ended their great WFH perk and have butts in seats 5 days a week. I know one college who worked 2 jobs remotely in secret. Reddit has sooo many over employed posts. It makes me angry
Productivity is not where it needs to be with Remote workers and we have ourselves to blame. In 2021 yes it was higher but who seriously iogs in for a full day?? No one. They login with their phones and sleep until their first meeting.
Anyway end rant. I still work from home but I expect a call back to the office soon. Who does remote anymore?
Why does slashdot have so much hate towards Rust? I can see Microsoft. But what has Rust down to you? Lol
On a side note I want to learn Rust as a personal project and I am learning Go now. I left development and got into dev ops infrastructure stuff over the years and miss coding. On paper Rust looks good but requires different ways to code with borrowing. Is this the hate? I think C++ and C did create the vast majority of issues in Windows and yes Linux back in the day
Under that attitude we still use IE 6 and vbscript because why change and not have hTML 5 today. Times move on
Wow is strange.
I left after CAT as WOTLK was it's height before activation started ruining things after the Ulder patch in WOTLK by nerfing and adding raid finder. But Classic anneversary has its users including myself. I came back after 13 years.
Use the right tool for the job. Linus Torvalds himself said he liked Office and PowerPoint and it makes sense to use the OS which your software was designed for.
Personally I am considering buying a console for the first time ever. Nvidia greed and games running better on $499 PS5 suboptimal RDNA 2 with Unreal 5 than $4000 PCs mean there is some serious issues with Windows
BlackMyth Wukong beats my 5080 hands on a playstation. I got into so many flamewars over this from PCMR fanboys saying I am retarded and cite my hardware specs but it i just is not as smooth or optimal at 4k. Yes I know about upscaling and the PS5 is doing this but it has less issues.
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My point is Linux sucks for games. Steamdeck is it's own thing and my guess is consoles next generation will start winning again because they OS is tuned for the hardware and so are the APIs and frameworks.
That is not what it's doing. I was the SSO admin at my previous employer with Okta and Azure.
It's to rid insecure passwords for MFA multifactor authentication and using your phone and biometrics to authenticate you. Your phone does this yet no one complains. Local passwords are highly insecure and the data is stored on the hard drive not a tpm chip like your phone is.
It needs an Internet email to identify you and retrieve your keys. Not to spy on you. It's a great feature as it's time to get rid of passwords. Under this Chrome will just prompt you for a pin when you enter a credit card or use Google Password managee. No passwords ðY'
It's a feature
If computers take over (which seems to be their natural tendency), it will serve us right. -- Alistair Cooke
