https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/wfh-employee-fired-after-boss-tracked-her-laptop-activity-breaks-silence/
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office building does not have the magic to help you complete the task, low performance stays low performance
These things depend on the job you do !! I have been WFH at I for 20+ years and remain effective and grounded. One pitfall with working in office of a dysfunctional org is that you get to be inward looking and spend too much time with peers and gossip and not enough time working with customers and partners. Obviously if you have to work in a lab or factory or have F2F conversations with peers then you have to do that.
Mentoring of younger employees is far more challenging with wfh. But are there really any of those around?
Another is promotions. But so what? Higher grade level means father from customer and more abstract view of the market!!
The important thing is to set meaningful objectives with short and mid time horizons and to execute to meet the objectives by any means necessary .
was distressed and poorly performing due to the management of... Pat Gelsinger.
And yet, although vmware was a publicly traded company, with ample financial performance information IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, the Intel BOD still hired him.
Someone should ask them exactly what it was that he did at vmware that made him a good candidate? Was it the house flipper mentality of just throwing Killz paint on moldy walls, or something more fundamental that made him such a great candidate?
It's almost as if the 'fidicuiary responsibility to shareholders' trope is all rotten entrails thrown out to shut the public up with respect to really, really bad decisions by management.
Hoo Boy that sounds a whole lot like Intel to me!
Let's not forget that Broadcom the bottom feeder just bought vmware.
It's not a secret that vmware was distressed and poorly performing due to the management of... Pat Gelsinger.
@2mdu - "distressed, poorly run company, cut costs, minimal investments, arbitrary rules" you say??.... Hoo Boy that sounds a whole lot like Intel to me!
But unlike Intel, Broadcom just gives you a massive TC on top of all of that.
Broadcom is a bottom feeder.
To the people downvoting this comment, please explain how Broadcom is NOT a bottom feeder, and why Intel should emulate them?
- They buy distressed, poorly run, companies.
- They cut costs, and provide minimal investment in the company (go ask on vmware what they have done)
- They make it a horrible workplace with arbitrary rules that are only bounded by "Because we said so, that's why".
Too many PEs, Senior PEs, Fellows doing grade 8 work (especiallyin NEX in Austin, Texas under Sachin Katti)! Fire them including Sachin Katti!
@1kej - hear hear..
I don’t mind working hard for an opportunity to get rich.
It’s a fools game to be asked to work hard to find your project cancelled and yourself cpm’d.
Intel can't emulate Broadcom because Intel's stock keeps on going down. If you all invested in NVDA or Broadcom/Avago in 2009, you could have retired, bought a couple of houses on Maui, and spent your time surfing or walking on the beach instead of posting on thelayoff defending Intel.
Who the f*** does that?
Intel HR? Pat G's sister-wives ha--m? Sorry, they are one and the same.
Broadcom works this way.. and they are doing gangbusters
Broadcom is a bottom feeder.
The only redeeming value of Broadcom is the 90-day RSU grant vesting cycle, and I reckon that's what keeps anyone working there.
It would be smart for Intel to NOT emulate Broadcom.
They can do what they want - I am in the office most days anyways.
But, they start dictating hours and limiting flexibility, they will find my flexibility tightened as well. No more weekends / late night or early morning calls. Might as well make me hourly.
If we got all meals covered, no problem. Will they? Of course not!
@chf I would gladly do that if it meant I didn't have to go home and work another 4 hours
Broadcom works this way.. and they are doing gangbusters. I think it won’t hurt to implement at Intel.
OK, Boomer. While we're at it, let's make it 5 days a week mandatory. And bring back the Late List - you better be at your desk by 0800 or else! And stay until 1700.
Then watch the voluntary turnover really skyrocket.