What just happened in Cork. RTO mandate with such urgency and that too apparently illegally! My guess is they are forcing attrition more than anything
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@24b Sadly, this is 100% not true, at least in VCF
Managers actually have a LOT of power at Broadcom
You made the milk come out my nose!
They have zero power. Hock is the only one with power. Everyone else are sycophants.
So, you can ask your manager about/for these things
They know nothing.
Nope! Hock will not rest until he fires everyone!
Can we put a cork in this ?
So, you can ask your manager about/for these things, or you can ask a rumor board full of imbeciles like this - your choice.
Here is better as my manager has no clue about any of this. I wish they would all be fired, not because they are useless , but because they actually hinder real work being accomplished and think they “know it all “. F them. And also F HT
Hock sets the rules, managers enforce and follow - ya know, like every corp or military org ever. Each franchise has up to 10% of population as mgmt (another Hock rule, can't be above 10%). They would not exist at all if they "might as well not exist", as Hock doesn't pay for anything than what's needed, especially managers who make more $$ than the 90% workers. So, you can ask your manager about/for these things, or you can ask a rumor board full of imbeciles like this - your choice.
Managers actually have a LOT of power at Broadcom
Not my experience, they have zero and might as well not exists. It’s the Hockway or the highway.
@228 EPIC values.... HA! You work for Avago now, not VMWare. There's only one "core value": "get to work & make money for us, or else!"
To my Irish cousins from a Bostonian Broadcom'er - my best advice is sincerely "ask your manager". Ask about office attendance situation & goals there, ask to be re-contracted to office from remote if that's what you seek. Ask ask ask. Express your concerns, etc. Managers actually have a LOT of power at Broadcom, and even the front-line ones have a whole mgmt chain to ask or escalate things up to when they don't. Hope that helps. Sláinte
I think the wfh v office based is more happenstance than choice, most of those contracts were given out during covid. how easy it is to polarize people and turn them against each other. Not very EPIC values.
"Haha! You sukkkers who goto the office every day, I save sooo much on petrol and laundry, don't even have to shower, what's wrong with you - enjoy your prison cubicles haha!" - Joe Workfromhomer, 2022
"Can someone please get me an office cube to save my job? I promise not to gloat how I got away with more than all of you for 3-5 years if you let me back!" - Joe Workfromhomer 2025
If you want an update on a local call you weren't on, maybe your manager or any office colleague is better to ask than a layoff rumor site? Seems some call was had telling those in the Cork office to show up to the office because it's less than 80% again, and probably doesn't apply to you if you're designated remote.
What's with the gate keeping of information on this. Couple of genuine questions have been asked by corkonians with remote contracts who were not invited to this meeting and would simply like an update on what was said in the call.
Some people want to come back to the office and have a contact change away from remote .. to protect their job... but it doesn't seem to be offered. Desk requests are ignored.
Would just like an insight
What if your contract is remote. Are they forcing you back to the office?
@10r
Why the down vote for a genuine question
The wordy guy is right - just because half of the office decides (gets away with) coming in half of the time does not make them remote employees by IRL law. You have no way to resist, sorry. They shut down our Burlington, MA office for the exact same reason and those not RIFd now go to a terible WeWork suite in Framingham, MA USA. Same will happen to you if you don't reach 80% attendance.
It’s obvious that they were told to reach the 80% or office closes
I see all the hock a-s lickers are out in force
Could someone explain what was communicated at this call. I'm Remote-IRL in Workday. I occasionally go to Cork office, but was never allocated a desk, even though I did ask for one. I wasn't invited to this call and am totally in the dark.
You obv don't know what "illegally" means. The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023, along with a Code of Practice published by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in March 2024. allow Irish employees individually to REQUEST to work remotely, which can be refused by the employer in writing for any business reason. There is no required warning period in Irish law requiring employers to give a 5 week warning to an entire office populations (of which 50% decided not to show up each day like in Cork). They are not considered remote so there is no requirement for Broadcom to beg or give grace periods in demanding you show up to your in-office job. Cry illegal all you want while you get your termination papers, I'm sure you'll win in court vs corporate lawyers law genius. LOL
illegally? LOL Are you kidding?
Could be that employees of Cork were never formally categorized as remote/wfh, so RTO warning laws would not apply. (ie, y'all just decide not to report to office too much if <80% these days but you're not actually considered remote workforce)? BRCM has a lot of pricey lawyers in each country to know what they can/cannot do vs just "being fishy".
Yea a point was brought up during the call that according to Irish legislation employees need about a 5 week notice for RTO mandate and the answer was we basically dont give a toss about your rights.
That is very suspicious and something is deffo fishy
@OP They were told get to 80% attendance or the office is gone
They wrote the check for the monthly rent and decided they need to get their money’s worth?