Dell’s RTO Gamble: Ki-ling Productivity, Not Boosting It
Dell forced everyone back into the office thinking it would “boost productivity,” but all they really did was ki-l morale and waste time. Now people are just physically sitting there, not working, watching the clock, and jumping offline by 3 PM anyway. They were getting way more actual output when people worked remote.
Total clown move. It’s like they optimized for appearances instead of results.
The love fest for RTO is puzzling. Maybe these people have such horrible lives at home that they enjoy sitting in traffic and wasting time at the office even though technology allows WFH anywhere in the world. They just be JC’s love children.
"The most useless people that still insist on WFH should be gone especially if there are any managers still working from home, get rid of them and give there jobs to people in house."
Imagine reaching adulthood and possessing a mind so incurious that you've never performed enough self-evaluation to assess if you're using the correct form of there, they're or their.
Funny, because from what I’ve seen, RTO actually made it easier to see how little work is getting done. People are socializing, checking out early, and barely putting in a full 8 hour day. At least when we were remote, work was actually getting finished. Now it’s just optics for leadership.
RTO is the only good thing dell has done lately.At least theres an appearance of work being done.
RTO was about time, most people started there in the building they had it made for almost 5 years getting paid to stay home and now they are complaining because they had to do what everyone else was already doing that never got the chance to work from home at all. If they don't like it they can quit and it will save the people that don't complain and just do there job.
The most useless people that still insist on WFH should be gone especially if there are any managers still working from home, get rid of them and give there jobs to people in house.
That and all of the useless "Project Managers" seriously how many do you need for this title....
What’s this Tuesday morning special about? Where do I sign up for that?
A manager i know walked by the other day. I asked whats going on? just generic question. he said I have to take attendance..so sad.
Give it a few more months, and RTO will crush whatever spirit they have left. Just burnt out, and su-ked dry like a Tuesday morning special.
RTO just reminded everyone how miserable commuting is. You can see it on their faces.
At this point, RTO is just a corporate-sponsored sprint to the parking lot before rush hour. High knees……
RTO is a waste of time. But the culture at Dell and the overall incompetence and unprofessionalism of MD, his execs, our SVPs and VPs is what is ki-ling the company.
We need a leadership overhaul
this is correct in aggregate. you have the PMs, manager, team lead extrovert talkers that make great sounding plans and PowerPoints, but don't move the needle at all. this is the crowd that wants everyone there, they want an audience. the introvert high performance workers thrive having no interruptions for walk-bys, lunches, driving.
high performers get more done when you enable full trust and monitor outcomes vs clicks. RTO is designed specifically for getting value from those low performers (that do take advantage of remote) who should just get fired instead. the .0001% gain from that low performer forced to RTO does not make up for the 40% loss in productively from high performer impacts and attrition of high performers
The Peter Principle was written decades ago as a warning that people rise to their level of incompetence. I wish MD had read it before promotion JS.
I managed to delay RTO as long as possible. I knew no one was serious when my boss scheduled our every other week 1x1 meetings as a Teams call.
JC may be the best modern day example of someone whose talent is way below the job and responsibility he has. There are countless stories of his nastiness (the dyslexia one is my favourite) and yet Michael keeps him around. Maybe it says more about Michael than Jeff.
Where is your data to support these claims? I'm able to get a lot more done with our teams now that they're not out walking their dogs or in their garden or napping during the day
yep, seems to be the consensus. Most are now opting to work just a few days a week in the office and the rest of the week at home. Nobody is really doing 5 days in the office from what I can see.
I am not sure if its by RTO, but the scrum team folks which got RTO became totally unresponsive and much less productive in recent weeks. My team is located in two countries I am fully remote but the rest is located in RTO forced country in 3 different locations :/
RTO only happened because JC has an out of control ego and he wants to micromanage everyone. Notice how it took over a year for MD to even comment on RTO? It was all JCs idea and he was sadly allowed to roll with it