I'm on the fence over it.
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100% I was all in until the demoralizing Coffee Talk. Stats and studies have shown time and time again that the best talent prefers remote. We're gonna lose a lot of really smart people on this one.
Unlike most, I’m kind of indifferent. Office is 15 minutes from the house, better lunch options nearby, and fewer distractions. If my kids need me I’m only 30 minutes away from their schools.
I was worried that it would become a huge chat fest, even worse than it was prior to Covid. Not happening. Today 8 people showed up from a reasonably large team and all but two of us are already out the door. Those people stuck around for maybe 3 hours. People do realize that there is no better built-in tracking SW than the Google Suite, right?
What do BC investors think they have bought?
They thought they bough a perfectly functioning cash cow that they can just come around every while and milk, no work needed. Then they started tinkering with the cow. Reducing feed, making it stay in the stable instead of being free range, telling the farmers that if they don't like how the cow is being treated they can leave the farm.
Actually the better analogy is the Golden Goose. The goose worked perfectly fine, laying small eggs, regularly. It was pretty good. Until Hock decided to starve the goose and cut it open to get that gold right away and hey what? Why are these golden eggs smaller then when I bought the goose? Must be those damn employees not working hard enough!
IMHO, the talent in VMware is industry leading. Some need to be treated with kid gloves, some are even more sensitive. What is clear is VMware experience is a proper blue chip - anyone who wants to leave can, most likely with a pay rise. What do BC investors think they have bought?
Quiet quitting…..VMware talent is real talent ;)
///Ok Mr. Rant. You so strong, work like real man.
I‘ll take myself to another company , work from home, and make 3x salary you do. Not a problem, no stress.
Actually, I will be retiring next year at 55 because even though I hate going to the office everyday, I did it anyway, so RTO or WFH doesn't matter anymore because I saw an opportunity and took it! hock made me rich! and I seriously doubt you make 3x what I do with the AVGO RSU's I have. Enjoy your pool time. No one is hiring a self entitled jerk but please, keep us in the loop.
Ok Mr. Rant. You so strong, work like real man.
I‘ll take myself to another company , work from home, and make 3x salary you do. Not a problem, no stress.
Enjoy your bizarre moral superiority at being Mr. hard core. I’ll be at the pool getting my dîck su-ked while you are at the office stealing staples and post it notes.
///// BC won’t be able to hire with 5 days a week in office. RTO is already dead
2020 called, they want to retire this notion that everyone can stay remote. Get out of your VMWARE bubble. Time to do some work buttercup. Half of you all are going to get laid off, you don't think someone in that group would be happy to show up and do your job?
You are not that special, no one is. Try it, go apply to Meta or Google, let us know how it goes.
I’ll be gone and shortly, you’ll likely be deád.
We can only hope you'll be gone. What a POS comment.
BC won’t be able to hire with 5 days a week in office. RTO is already dead
This was the case during covid. Now it's no problem at all.
BC won’t be able to hire with 5 days a week in office. RTO is already dead
“Get your Butt back to the office or learn how to walk on water.”
That will be there in the Harvard Biz case study, right after Musk tell advertisers he doesn’t give a F if they advertise with Xitter on effective techniques to ruin a business.
Money and power corrupt the soul.
Bye bye Hock, enjoy making those interest payments. I’ll be gone and shortly, you’ll likely be deád.
I’d say I got the better deal out of it.
It’s more than RTO- it’s the culture and how HT presented himself at his coffee talk. Not a good fit for a lot of vmware people. The acquisition was a complete mess. Word is out already to customers and partners. Good luck!
Deal breaker. Putting in my notice in a week or 2.
I’m going full RTO, as in I’m going to live in the office. Problem solved.
RTO is only a single entry in the long list of changes that make me feel that Broadcom is an unsuitable place for me to continue my career
RTO not the deal ki-ler. More concerned about the well advertised layoff machine.
Little incentive for teamwork, it’s going dog eat dog.
Don’t like the idea of looking over the shoulder at all times for the next axe to fall.
Yea, I’ll be gone, would have stayed with hybrid, but there ya go.
It will help him meet his target quota numbers for layoffs without any effort.
He doesn’t care who stays, any warm body is fine to fix bugs.
5 days of RTO is a deal breaker. Should be able to put in my notice in the next week or two.
Full 5 days are a deal breaker. 2-3x week I’m fine with.
Nice to see Purnima cracking that Hock whip in the all hands. Sold her soul.
She spoke like his minion. Also, how any existing mgmt members think they can run a business when they failed before is simply beyond me. I guess Hock thinks he has some new padawans to train to become Sith Lords.
I’m looking for the small thermal exhaust pipe…
Deal breaker for me, I won’t attend the office unless there’s a purposeful and sensible reason to do so. I’ll get put on administrative leave and eventually get fired and that will be fine. In the UK, it may well be constructive dismissal given that I have been a remote worker for over 5 years and this creates a contractual right over time. A no win no fee lawyer can sort out the details for me.
I live very close to the office and it's a dealbreaker. I could have done three days in the office and it would have been fine. But Hock dropping the five days a week hammer is ridiculous.
They are purposely being difficult. They are trying to get us to quit. Well, it worked. I went into the office yesterday to talk to my boss and put in my notice. I'll work from home for the rest of my time, enjoy the holidays, then start looking. VMware may have been special, but this isn't VMware. Just another job.
I'm in a country that has yet to learn it's fate, currently working remotely and have been since start of COVID, never worked remotely before that.
For me it is a deal breaker. I live within Broadcom's assigned commuting radius so would have to travel in. My best hope is that the site gets closed down and we either all work remotely or get laid off.
If it's traveling into office 5 days a week I'll be gone very shortly after the announcement as will most other members of my team.
Nobody asked anybody to relocate though.
I’d you aren’t close to an office and Broadcom wants to keep you then you’ll just continue working from home.
Do you people still not get the way this works ?
Deal breaker. I own my own home more than 50 miles away and am very comfortable. My life is here and has been for a long time. I have worked remotely for many years and would never go full-time back to an office. If you have skills, there are plenty of places to work remotely.
100% a deal breaker, which is why I declined the offer. I have been remote since 2009, no way I'd ever go back to getting stuck in traffic, and wasting valuable time I don't get paid for. There are plenty of other roles out there that are fully remote.
Being fully remote and not close to an office, yes. No way I'd ever consider relocating for this company