The signs are pointing towards a potential return to the office. My manager mentioned that seating arrangements are in progress, which suggests a shift back to the workplace. Some colleagues have even relocated far from the office, and if we're expected to return, they might have no option but to resign. Broadcom wouldn't have to provide severance in such cases. Engineers don't earn as much as directors, and not everyone can afford a second car nowadays. It's wise to prepare for the possibility and ensure your LinkedIn profile is up to date.
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To the employee below who takes 3 hour power lunch.
Someone needs to settle down. It is a joke.
The fact you think it is real is quite telling of how you view your colleagues, not very positively it would seem.
To the employee below who takes 3 hour power lunch.
Once BC comes you will expected to deliver results or else PIPed. This is actually happening all across the industry. Do more with less slogan going on.
Advise to you - get straighten up soon
My spider sense tells me that there won’t be severance
Stop listening to your spider senses, and stop sharing what they're telling you. You're just embarrassing yourself.
This is exactly how it played out at Citrix. Tons of "facilities" activity - floor map planning, etc. was happening weeks and months in advance of the acquisition. Once it happened, within a couple weeks the RTO mandate came down, and they started monitoring badge swipes and logins from office. It wasn't long before they started actively enforcing RTO policy and if you weren't in the office as expected, you were warned and ultimately actions taken for repeat violators. Those who were hired as "field" or "remote" employees that didn't live near an office were exempted, but anyone who lived within the commute radius of an office who weren't originally hired in the previously exempt categories were expected to comply with the in-office policy. I expect things to play out very similarly at VMware.
I don’t do the same thing in the office as I do at home. In the office I make coffee, make sure the copier has enough paper, browse the coffee table books, take three hour power lunches, and attend random meeting just to say “Hi”.
At home, I do my job.
That is why these 'get a lazee girl job in tech' in posts on social media are infuriating, they want to do as little as possible, ruining it for those of us grafting.
My spider sense tells me that there won’t be severance. If the layoff emails are sent 11/1, then they will come from BCOM - and those will likely say “today is your last day” and HR will send you instructions to sign up for self-pay COBRA.
"If this is your big factor to stay in a job or not... best of chances in the real world"
Oh well I took the initiative as soon as the announcement was made of the acquisition and started looking for a new job. And, I landed a job at another company that encourages work from home. So I don't exactly have a dog in this fight.
But all of you here had the same exact opportunity to find something before this deal closed. And while I respect your decision to stay if that's what you chose, returning to the office is still ridiculous. From what I've seen a "reasonable" distance is within 50 miles. 50 miles in the Bay area might as well mean you're driving across another state. The traffic is right back to where it was before the pandemic meaning a 50 mile commute anywhere in the Bay area is going to be 2 hours each way. He-l. I only lived about 25 mi away and it still took me over an hour.
It was ridiculous before the pandemic, and it's ridiculous now. Making people return to an office to do the same things they do at home it's just a waste of everybody's time. And you're probably not going to get nearly as good of quality work out of people who are already worn out by the time they have battled traffic all morning with the miserable prospect of having to do it all over again at the end of the day.
“ I work in the UK and I used to work for a bank. I had to take the train bi-weekly at 4:15am for a 7am start and 6:17am for a 9am start with neither week being home way after 9pm and pay £6500 a year for the train. People forgot, or never worked, what it was like 3-5 years ago.”
I never would have done that and I’ve been in the working world about as long as you. In a large city. You may be shoot to hand over extra chunks of your life to an employee who will cut you without a thought, but it doesn’t mean the rest of us are somehow weak for not wanting to. You literally could not pay me enough to do that. I’d rather make less and have more time to live my life.
"I had to take the train bi-weekly at 4:15am for a 7am start and 6:17am for a 9am start with neither week being home way after 9pm and pay £6500 a year for the train."
@szb+1otTA5xx So presumably you can understand why people wouldn't want to go back to that then.
Just because something was done in the past did not make it right or even the best way to do something, we've tried remote, a lot of people prefer it.
If you want to go back to the office on your 4.15am train have at it but don't expect the rest of us to commute with you when we can work from home perfectly fine.
FWIW....
From a recent conversation with someone within BC the following scenarios had played out in the past.
- If you're within reasonable driving distance to an office you will be expected to come in, even if your team is not in the same office and you will sit on zoom calls from the office.
- Those that are not within reasonable driving distance and BC wanted to retain stayed remote.
- In the case were there was an office but not enough employees to justify keeping it open the office was closed and those employees stayed remote.
Also worth noting that your experience with BC is directly tied to how your GM runs their part of the org. This person cited being very happy at BC.
The big question is what is "reasonable driving distance"?
People who are within reasonable distance to an office who are b!tch!ng , how did you ever have a job before covid when being in office 5 days a week was normal.
That. I’ve been working in IT for 25 years and VMware was actually my first remote job. I work in the UK and I used to work for a bank. I had to take the train bi-weekly at 4:15am for a 7am start and 6:17am for a 9am start with neither week being home way after 9pm and pay £6500 a year for the train. People forgot, or never worked, what it was like 3-5 years ago.
Even Zoom is asking people back to office.
"The fearless people have already gone, only the sheep and cattle remain."
Okay, that's sarcasm, but how many have the courage to quit now? It seems most ARE waiting for a windfall that may (or may not) make the wait worthwhile. It's a fair point.
"I think that is the expectation- that there will be % who will resign. I do believe its imminent"
Interesting prediction. The fearless people have already gone, only the sheep and cattle remain.
'Except for the last few years companies literally said this was permanent. The ONLY reason this is happening is because the CEO of BC is an old-fashioned curmudgeon who because of his own choice to come to the office thinks everyone else should too'
This is BS . RTO across major tech companies has already happened. If it wasnt for the pending acquisition VMware would have already done the same.
People who are within reasonable distance to an office who are b!tch!ng , how did you ever have a job before covid when being in office 5 days a week was normal.
Full return to office is coming.
If this is your big factor to stay in a job or not... best of chances in the real world.
"It's not good if you banked on being remote forever."
Except for the last few years companies literally said this was permanent. The ONLY reason this is happening is because the CEO of BC is an old-fashioned curmudgeon who because of his own choice to come to the office thinks everyone else should too.
At face value it is both stupid and wasteful. Its a waste of time. Its a waste of money. Its a waste of space. And its a waste of resources for people to spend $1000's of dollars a year on fuel, vehicles and vehicle maintenance while all along sending tons of carbon into the atmosphere just so that they can come to a office building with harsh lighting and sit in a cube so they can spent the entire day emailing and Zooming- the same exact thing they were doing while working at home.
Your manager wouldn't know this information. Broadcom has remote jobs. They have listings for them posted right now.
Remote jobs are also extremely competitive and becoming more scarce these days. It’s tough out there. RTO is the latest in thing. Hope distributed workforce gets more traction again. We get so much more done working hybrid or remote. But Broadcom expects everyone in the office Monday to Friday. With some rare exceptions.
“It's not good if you banked on being remote forever.”
Many people were hired remotely, into positions posted as remote. And many others went through a formal process to change to remote workers. They had every reason to believe in an actual remote (versus flexible) role that they’d be able to be remote. Some people have been remote since long before covid…
This is a good way to combat the multi-job takers and quiet quitters. It's not good if you banked on being remote forever. However, that was a gamble. Employers will start to rein it in. My job as consultant was always remote requiring travel. I expect this to pick up as well (once customers release $$$ for travel budgets for their contracts).
If that is the case, we each have a choice to make based on our own circumstances. I'll cross that bridge personally if I am faced with it.
I think that is the expectation- that there will be % who will resign. I do believe its imminent.