Has anybody driven past the new HPE building in Spring, TX? It looks like the building is almost finished and there is an impressive piece of art out front that looks vaguely similar to a giant 3-D model of a Covid-19 virus.
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Struggling to understand the significance of the "New Building", "New Artwork", etc for the HPE Site.
Is there a strategy inside the artwork or building that will lead HPE back to the promised land.
What about the people working remotely will they be penalized from not coming to work at the new site ?
Jeez, they just moved their headquarters from Palo Alto to the Alviso landfill three years ago. What happened?
Most employees need to ask themselves, “Can somebody else perform my job in a foreign country?”. If you are creating/managing spreadsheets or writing Python scripts or updating JavaScript, then the answer is probably “yes”. I think the problem at HPE is that high complexity tasks are much harder to offshore. The upper management boneheads threw a ton of complex development over the fence to the offshore teams to save a few bucks. That will result in poor quality and loss of customers. On the bright side, the bonehead bosses will earn a bonus for the short term savings.
Everyone is so stoked about being able to work from home. The problem is, that job could be easily outsourced to another English speaking country say Costa Rice where a salary of 30K/year puts you into the middle class. That's what's happening in a lot of US companies these days. Be careful what you wish for and choose your career wisely.
The layoffs at HPE have been bloody and a lot of people who I thought were lifers have either left for greener pastures or have been given the axe. The funny thing is that none of the incompetents in upper management have left. That doesn’t bode well for the stock price and the remaining poor souls waiting for their turn at the guillotine.
I drive by there almost every day, since I work at HPi. But I'm a former HPE'er since I got laid off in July 2020, so I get curious aboyt the new campus' progress. Yep, looks like they're almost finished. One of my ex-coworkers I talk to said they will start moving this month or next. Long live the Compaq building!
But there will probably be a very uneventful ribbon cutting. I'm sure Antonio and his buddies will be wearing masks with a six foot long pair of scissors to social distance and cut the ribbon.
I'm sure once they are done cutting the ribbon, they will fly back to California and let the new building be flooded by contract workers to work in the lab. Engineers will come probably once or twice a week to make sure contractors are doing their thing and twittle their thumbs at their new desk space... That's sort of what's going on here at HPi but we have more tech to test out since our products are more hands-on.
Once covid dies down, which right now, it looks like it is and hopefully reaching the endemic phase, office work will never be the same. Engineers may show up more frequently. But PMs, marketing, sales, managers, business operating people may show up once in a while for meetings. HR and other finance stuff will likely never see the office ever again for the rest of their lives.
Looking to seeing my HPE friends again... or at least, whomever is left after I got laid off. (Sigh) There are a lot of people I was looking forward to seeing again but now they've moved on.