End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work

I can't think of a worse marketing strategy for a company that relies on remote work to remain relevant. This would be like if General Motors forced every employee within 50 miles of an assembly plant to ride a bike to work.

is now asking all employees within 50 miles of a company office to go in at least two days a week on a hybrid schedule.

I briefly worked for a company that took this approach. The oversight they made was they had 2 offices (different teams in each), but as long as you lived within 50 miles of one of the offices, you had to come in.

Even if your team was exclusively in office 1, and you lived outside the radius of office 1 BUT were in the radius of office 2...you had to come in to office 2...and teleconference with your team in office 1 🤦

I mean... as a software developer, Sorry, I will not be returning to the office.

You need me, more than I need you. The market is HOT right now.

Companies will learn, the hard way.

Commuting is a total loss, and I find being in the office makes it much harder to actually get work done. Fuck all this shit.

Return to office to sit at computer on zoom.

"THE REAL ESTATE! PLEASE THINK OF HOW MUCH WE PAY FOR THE PRETTY BUILDING!"

I guess they don't trust their product.

I'd love to understand the logic and benefit of come two days a week. But the real reason, not the bullshit they say

Currently looking for another job and EVERY job I have seen that's hybrid has multiple offices across the country. So basically they make you come into the office to talk to the rest of your team on zoom. Somehow that is more efficient than talking to them on zoom from your house.

"Oscar Meyer tells employees to eat less meat"

We can only assume the internal memo was:

"Hey guys! Oh shit! Our remote conferencing software is actually crap! We need to return to the office ASAP!"

Good for them not having any "sacred cow" technologies - not even the one they sell, apparently.

Careful, this article might cause irony poisoning

Airbnb tells employees to stay at hotels.

Seems like a way of culling staff without having to pay severance.. make it so shit that people leave, but make allowances for the key people you need

Don't get high on your own supply

They have to come back to the office, but no getting out of their cubicle to talk. They have to use Zoom for that.

In other news, a bunch of Zoom employees are easily poachable.

Different circumstances but similarly funny in an absurd way because of how it sounds, I remember reading a news item in the 90s about the time when a riot broke out in a Nerf factory in China.

Irony much?

Wouldn't be surprised if this is just to weed out employees so they don't need to do layoffs. Forcing return to office keeps employees that are "loyal" to the company while potentially trimming down total headcount.

Two days is reasonable imo. WFH has its advantages but some things are still better face-to-face, like onboarding.

just slack off those 2/5 days where they force you in the office and kill their network while you're at it (upload unnecessarily)

Stupid af.

C'mon guys.

Onion

Are they doubling tapping themselves on their foot after the BS that they put on their ToS?

As someone starting out their career in a technical field, I would LOVE to be in the office more if more people from the projects I'm working on were regularly there, but it's just not feasible to require it.

Capitalism leaves us with barely any time to live, and so much time has been clawed back from WFH.

No way I'm advocating it to be mandatory to come into the office more than a single day a week.