Hope not...
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People hate to hear it. But the truth is that workers are more effective when collaborating face to face in a work environment. More and more corporations are coming to that stark realization.
Dell hawked work from home because its a boon to sales of their hardware business. Now that the boon is over, so is WFH to large degree.
Natural way to cause attrition and save on severance
no not a chance. Way too much money to save not having traditional office and buildings.
Dell was promoting remote working way before the pandemic. It was one of their selling points to attract new talent. I used to be part of talent acquisition team. Highly doubt there will be pressure to return to the office.
Goal is to completely offshore eventually, so they need existing workforce to show remote working.
I’d be surprised. What do you think Dell sells? If they dont believe in hybrid work who else will and how will we push fancier laptops.
If I was born and raised in Austin, where the cost of living is nearly 3x the rate it as anywhere else I’d be fine coming into the office. But honestly, Dell could pay a lot less with remote work in areas that aren’t Austin and Silicon Valley.
I don’t see it happening.
They want you back for control. Get used to it. Fewer buildings. But more staff on site. Can’t blame them remote people are not really working. These layoffs are needed because of the business environment. But managers want to get back control.
Also, last I heard Dell was wanting/trying/planning to have 75% of it's workforce WORK FROM HOME by 2025. Seems counter productive to have ppl start coming back in unless it's vital.
HA! with the gas prices the way they are? hope they start giving a gas stipend. Either way, I'll never have to go in again
This has been about the 3 healthiest years in a long time, and I attribute it to not being around a bunch of germ infested people who would go into an office rather than take a sick day.
No way in heck will I ever go back.
already back...what's the hold up
My work location has been my home for 7 years.
Personally, I would like to go back to the office. I do not feel as connected working from home. I go back every 2 weeks or so and there a few people there, but almost none from the group I am in.
Internally things are being judged on a department, role, or sometimes individual basis. The data's been tracked and summarized in all sorts of fancy spreadsheets and dynamic charts, compared to prepandemic baselines. There is no blanket return to the office. It's recognized that remote work harms some teams and roles. Savvy folks have scripted emails and maybe even some Web Testing QA software to make it look like legit activity, and you know what? If you're smart enough to do that the powers that be let it slide. He-l, running QA unit tests via build scripts is legit activity in the first place. If you're taking two hour lunches, regular naps, and have hour long kid's appointments three times a week auditors aren't stupid, even if you have a mouse jiggler and a keyboard event simulator to fake activity. If you're one of these people, and there are many, you should be prepared to live off that unemployment check, because the tech job market is b-alls.
doubt it, lay offs + return to the office? prepare for more to leave.
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Used to be three offices around my county now only one remains.
possible another stealth cullling. come into office or else .....
what office? they pretty much have liquidated the buildings and land in a fire sale