Forced RTO is a way to make life uncomfortable for people so they will leave voluntarily - this allows Broadcom to avoid more layoffs and pay severance. Here's an article that explains this mentality:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/03/return_to_office/
Forced attrition, rule #1 on the boomer playbook. Opentext's terrible ceo does that everytime they acquire a new company
don't belong in a competitive corporate environment focused on hardware design.
Not to state the obvious, but clearly Hock no longer is focusing on hardware.
Forced attrition is a strategy as old as work itself.
Bs, this is how BC operates before this acquisition. For all coasters, you can find better gig outside if you can, good luck.
On your way to the acceptable phase yet?
It’s just a job. There are a--holes out there. Move on.
I'd be doing exactly the same if I was Hock. Why keep the prima-donnas and the whiny brats. Javascript jugglers, html wranglers, kubernetes tree-huggers don't belong in a competitive corporate environment focused on hardware design.
It's the only explanation that makes sense. BC is doing all they can to cut VMW staff while minimizing severance.
Evidence:
All HT's reasons are BS. There is no "collaboration" in the office when our teams are dispersed everywhere. Most people I talk with have nobody in their team even near their office, so they are driving in to sign on to Zoom from a random office.
What's the collaborative culture in BC? No coffee and donuts for you! Where's the camaraderie that exists in an office culture like BC that makes in-office presence helpful?
I 100% believe this is all a ruse to get more employees to leave voluntarily. It's all that makes sense, and fits everything BC has been doing to us. The first wave was offering severance, second wave was forced layoffs, now the wave will be squeezing out people by ridiculous policy, then in about 6 months ("Day 2" they call it - May 2024) - we will get the next forced wave. I believe this because of how they are describing Day 2 as the consolidation of systems and required duplicative staff to support them. HT also said he doesn't need 2 sales teams, another indicator.
I heard it would be bad, but believed some of the lies told to us for 18 months, and written in a merger agreement. Now that the first wave deadline is past, we see how disgusting this man is and the company culture he leads.
Even worse, customers will be treated like $hit now. He laughs at dumping customers. I had a job doing what's right for our customers, and that's now completely flipped.
The only ones that will benefit from this is bc competitors.
RTHO
Return to home office!
We can’t convince the 1950s ruler to think in the modern sense, so everyone will suffer as a result. The only thing that will convince HT and change his opinion is financial damage in RSU price, lack of productivity and competition etc
What's BC rto policy? 3 or 5 days per week?
I don’t think it is a ruse. It is the way BC works.
In the case of VMw it will have the effect of making some people quit which they probably see as an added benefit.
Unless the goal of return to the office mandates is actually to drive workers to quit in order to avoid layoffs and severance pay – as has been alleged in some cases – it's hard to see why corporate managers would reject remote work when that brings greater access to talent, reduced turnover, lower property cost obligations, and greater productivity.
BC playbook..