After the recent layoffs and seeing my friends left with very little severence I am scared.
I started preparing more for interviews from Home and I am not interested even to show up in office unless there are critical meetings. I used to respect coming to office earlier.
The severance pack received by my friend is very low and I am also scared now with a single email any time my job is in danger. This layoff has collapsed entire morale of the unit and the human work culture.
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@qx how is AI relevant to returning to office? it's exactly the opposite.
AI is replacing juniors, not me. I actually know how to use it to boost productivity and deliver a complex project. In fact, it's a relief, Codex requires way less knowledge transfer and hand-holding than a typical junior, and it delivers on time and with better quality.
@pp that may be true that you won't work in an office again. You have at least 18+ years experience = older/expensive and with skills that AI was developed to replace. Unless you are close to retirement you might want to soften that stance. People are being replaced all the time and the more difficult ones seem to go sooner.
haven't worked in office for 18 years at this point, hired as fully remote in Oracle years ago. I will never return to any office, it's absolutely useless for software engineering.
@c9 I’ve only received 2 others, but they were much better. 1 company I was only there 5 months and got 3 months plus the 60 day warn pay, and 2 months of healthcare. The other was the same but had been there 13 months.
Oracle's severance package is actually robust compared to other companies. 4 weeks for first year and 1 week each additional year. Max 26 weeks.
Go… enjoy coffee.. talk to new people.. make new friends.. one more motivation to not go to office is gasoline prices
OP are you interesting in continuing to get a paycheck? If you can be in the office for critical meetings then you can be there every day. Your employer defines the work you need to do and if being in the office is a requirement it really isn't optional. Move on if you think you can find something better.
@a5 that would be some good friend to help you commit fraud and risk losing their job too. If your friend gets caught you are both done and there would be zero severance. If you can be in the office for critical meetings then you can be there every day.
Keeping your office space will make you covered by WARN, which will give you 2 months of benefits you won't get if you are remote.
FYI they are checking badge scans, and that, along with what you are doing (or not doing) on your company notebook is building a "loyalty score" which may be used when making RIF decisions. I'd recommend getting those badge scans, or at least give your badge to a friend that is going in and have them get you badge scans.