Is there any truth to them?
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I agree that many fully remote people STILL don't have a professional home office setup, which at this stage is unforgivable if you truly consider yourself a high tech professional.
I literally live only 10 minutes away from a major office, and indeed I head into the office twice/thrice a week... but it makes little sense to me to make it mandatory. I also find that the shared office setup we have these days provides me with a radically inferior collaboration environment, since most of the people I work with very closely are remote and they complain about the inevitable office backgrond noise when I join online meetings from there.
I am also the only one representing my team in the office for customer visits, important internal live meetings and such, since everybody else in the team is a remote worker.
Any company demanding full mandatory RTO should make sure the infrastructure is up to notch, so that the RTO TRULY represents an increase in collaboration and productivity. Just mindelessly demanding it with some platitudes about "working better together" is intellectually lazy drivel. Clearly just a way to create an excuse to lay off people. Why not demand everybody run a 4 minute mile while you're at it? :-/
@1jd He's an old man trying to act young and it doesn't look pretty...
@1jd nTonio has one of the most expensive and exclusive executive sneaker collections in the valley. Respek please.
@1f4 why does this man, who is the CEO wear these ridiculous clothing? Is he going to Target after work? The sneakers are just absurd with the lifts for height.
His underlings are in pretty suits and a-s kiss all day. Shaking their heads up and down agreeing with him.
Its very pathetic to watch.
HPEFS management is the same, phoney and weird when interacting with him. They stare at his sneakers and smile.
If i hear how much money Discover costs again, I am going to lose it. Sc--w Discover and stop WFR. Also, please stop talking about RTO, noone cares where you work, noone works at the office or at home.
I had to fake working in the office everyday, as I had no work after 9:15 a.m. it was a very long day, with a very long lunch hour (3 hours). I had to leave before 5pm as panic attacks would set in.
It's very uncomfortable trying to fake work for so many hours when upper management walks by twice a day to check up on you.
Get a life.
nTonio's executive sneaker collection could pay many a many salaries.
Check out HPEFS, just research Ian Fowlis.
WFR, RTO, ABC, Discover is a joke.
How can the CEO of this company lay his head down at night, basically firing really great people, so the company can continue to live. Think about it.
Why doesn't he take a $1 annual salary and stop buying homes. Let people enjoy their families and keep their jobs.
This is complete nonsense.
WFR twice a year is criminal.
@1b0 A-s-kissing is good for a company. And for a country! Look how fast we've been able to raise the world's oil prices, US tariffs, kidnap a president, and build a new dance hall in the white house! ALL GREAT IDEAS. EVERYONE IS AGREEING.
@1b0 RTO can be good for the company, but not how HPE's doing it with hoteling and everyone front'n because there's not much real work to do. At least from home you only have to act busy fake importance during zoom.
An actual quote: Coming into the office supports synergy, inclusion and brainstorming.
We sit on Team meetings and brainstorm. (Not really). Noone is seeing eachother in person. We don't like eachother to sit face to face. Employees are rude to eachother and EVERYONE KISSES the bosses a-s. It's pathetic.
I had a meeting in the office and everyone in the office sat in their office space. Noone came into the meeting room.
I will be working from home from now on.
@er cool. He can claim 6 months of unemployment and then file for retirement!
@nw hahahahah. They’ve had three this year so far. Look at Linkedin
No there will be no layoffs in 2026
@c2 -Really? Who freaking cares?
Yes. Is was on Threads the other day and there was a person saying he was just layed-off 6 months before his retirement- after 30 years.
HPE really needed RTO. Before I quit it was nearly impossible to get anything done with people "working" from home. Kids or pets interrupting meetings, people nowhere to be found when they were supposed to be working and no accountability for those who abused the system. What a scam!
Many, many, many still need to go from JNPR>
Antonio looks like he dropped 30 lbs in a short amount of time. Looks great!
RTO, what is the new mandate?
The RTO is vicious. Gas prices up, inflation increasing, roads packed with angry drivers all going into offices that are counterproductive for work. Also, the free cash flow percentage added to bonuses is corp talk for sc--wing over the employees once again. Gross, just gross.
No. I think they have moved on to "quiet firing" using RTO,.
Layoffs happen 2x a year. Before Discover and in Nov. Common at HPE.
How long have you worked at HPE? There has always been persistent WFRs.