Citrix allows end users to work from home. If the feedback on this board is correct and he is pushing for his employees to return to the office, that goes directly against his companies core technology. Maybe something he shouldn't project to the market.
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"So glad you asked this question -- That's just a marketing message! The way you work remotely is you go home after a full day in the office, have dinner with the family, and log back in after dinner" (Tom Krause in recent all hands)
I was hired hybrid. For over 10 years, I've been AT BEST hybrid and mostly remote most of the time. Except my initial training for a few months in the beginning, I've never been totally in the office. Nobody complained. I am highly productive and have inherited a ton of critical responsibilities over the years. Most of the people on the teams I've worked on were hybrid, at best, too. It exists. In fact, it was the norm for many teams.
@nzi+1jjlpf9d You're blowing smoke and you know it. WFH policy was literally whatever your manager approved.
@agl+ijjlpf9d Citrix policy at that time required you to work from home only one day of the week with mgmnt approval and if you decide to work from home , your home should be within a radius of 20-30 miles from the office.. those so called "generous hybrid schedules" seems to be a thing of just a few people if they even existed.
I was a big doubter against RTO, but honestly, the new email looks promising. It sounds like he's tiptoeing around allowing existing remote arrangements to be at the discretion of the organization. As long as the money keeps flowing, and potentially increasing, this sounds promising. I'd just have an honest discussion on remote arrangements with management if I had concerns. Amazon in particular seems to be poaching remote roles extensively. If they don't want you remote, just jump ship there, or any of the thousands of other remote opportunities.
Coming into the office for bagel day once a week is not the same as fighting the I-95 traffic five days a week, week in and week out. Before the pandemic, I was one of the few people on my team who didn't have at least one regularly scheduled WHF day per week.
@lbv+1jjlpf9d the others you are talking about might be a small minority... Ive been with Citrix for a lot of years and before the pandemic everyone was happy to be able to work from the office, because of the culture, the flexibility, the friends, happy hours, etc.... Sure they would be a few that didnt wanted to work from the office but certainly the majority of the people was very happy and didnt complained working from ft Lauderdale campus.
RTO might look bad to customers. What looks worse is the end of BYOD a couple of years ago. Run virtual apps and desktops on any device, anytime, completely secure. NOT. There's a social engineering hack and in response, it's back to company issued bricks that are so locked down you can barely run a PowerPoint in the field. Now that's a complete contradiction when Citrix is afraid to use it's own products.
Citrix has a long history of not eating it's own dog food. The NetScaler team was always proud to not use CVAD. About the only thing I liked non-NetScaler was Sharefile.
@agl+ijjlpf9d Did you even work for Citrix, ever? No, "everybody" did not work in the office until a few years ago. Generous hybrid schedules were available to pretty much anyone who asked and we had loads of people in fully remote roles, including people managers. Not to mention highly integrated teams with members across multiple geos.
"Work from anywhere" was our brand, ffs.
@agl+1jjlpf9d Wrong. I was complaining about it 4-5 years ago and so were others. I've worked at home on and off since the 90's when we were using 56K modems to connect. WFH made sense then, made sense 4-5 years ago, and makes sense even more so now that we've proven it's benefits for years during the pandemic.
@OP+1jjlpf9d what is the problem? 4-5 years ago everybody was working from the office despite the technology available to work from home existed and no one complained.... your statement is just one in the million complaints and weak excuses complaining about RTO...
Please confirm OP, what’s left of our core technology that TK should care about? AFAIK Citrix has vacated long ago what remains is a financial br----l to use and abuse get paid and get out. In all honesty is it his fault? Blame the chain gang of those that put him here.
Come on - TK is not stupid. He may be a poor presenter and aggressive in his communication, but everything he does follows a playbook that was written while he was at Broadcom. It’s a way to force attrition and to save on severance.
Of course he doesn't. The October GEM was total amateur hour on his part. Even I was embarrassed for him.