HT was clear. If you live within 50 miles of an office, GET YOU BUTT in there. 4-5 days out of the week. NO EXCUSES. He said it himself and if you are not in the office you better have a GREAT excuse.
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Something that made me laugh (and I know none of this is funny) from the irony:
Commercial for Broadcom shows how BC connects people EVERWHERE.
Snippets of people working from their home/on planes etc.
Whelp.
I guess working from ANYWHERE for BC doesn't fall into the "connecting people EVERWHERE category"....
Let’s see how much this is enforced. For my specific situation it is simply a deal breaker. I’ll wait it out and see, hoping our group gets sold off to someone else.
As a previous comment said, it also serves his goal of accelerating attrition.
What is different than the 90s is that now we have choices. I chose to go to the office 2-3x a week tops for my personal situation. If that isn’t enough, yep, not a good fit and bye bye along with my skill set. Nice not knowing you Hock.
Ironic that someone from BC is saying to keep an open mind about coming in 5 days a week yet they have a CEO with a mindset from the 90's. I get his reasoning for not wanting remote work, I just completely disagree with it. He is essentially saying he doesn't trust employees to do their work. I'm sure there are some that take advantage of that, but I would argue that most do not. That really is down to company culture and accountability. I like most of the rest of what he said, but the absolute refusal of allowing any WFH is a basically a big FU from me. Not that anyone cares, but I will be gone in the next few months; maybe sooner.
He is looking for attrition without having to pay severance. His opening crack about the number of VMW vs Broadcom employees was the tell. Big layoffs and attrition are part of the plan
What about those of us who still don't really know what we're doing and are changing jobs entirely? I don't really have anything to work on at the moment. Do I still need to go into the office and twiddle my thumbs for 8hrs a day?
Reading all this stuff, euc is getting the best end of the deal. No change in benefits or bonuses and we continue to work remotely as always. Plus we are getting sold off and don't have to work for broadcom.... Hahahahahaha.
Why did BC people stick around?
Golden handcuffs.
Individual contributors making $600k - 900k per year.
Turn over is extremely low at BC. Where else am i going to go to get paid so much for a 40 hour week. Go to a new company and you have to grind to learn another architecture. After a while you realize work is just a paycheck.
My excuse is fu-k off - I'll stick around like a tick.
I'm glad that person asked him to elaborate his position on remote. While I understand his reasoning, I don't agree with him at all. There are plenty of great companies that allow remote work AND are innovative and highly profitable. Read "Remote: Office Not Required" for an accurate view of the truth. I have worked remotely for a long time (way before I even got to VMware) and I have never felt it hampered my productivity or ability to deliver. Quite the opposite actually. I have noticed that there were a tiny number of people at VMware who took advantage of it but that was an issue with VMware's culture--not remote work itself. Broadcom will probably lose some great people over this one requirement and it's a shame really. I kind of like Hock's no-nonsense approach but no remote is a deal breaker for me (not that it really matters anyway). I'll be gone in a few months if not sooner.
I knew moving to the middle of nowhere was going to pay off one of these days! Not to mention that RE is about 1/10th the price it was when we lived in a big city.
“I wish someone from BC would comment on this. The story Hock shared about post-covid...what drove those thousands to come back to the office vs finding another job? Is it that great of a place to work? What's the average tenure of a BC employee? Not a rhetorical question - looking for genuine feedback”
In-office Broadcom employee from CA Technologies acquisition chiming in.
I don’t think Hock likes the idea of people puttering around their houses while on Broadcom work time. It’s not unreasonable given what Broadcom pays out in equity and bonuses compared to where many of us came from at CA and Symantec.
You also have to understand that the Covid fueled WFH revolution wasn’t even a thing when CA was purchased so continuing with Broadcom in an office wasn’t controversial.
Hock couldn’t say it so bluntly so I will:
If you’re given an offer to stay with Broadcom and you live within 50 miles of an office and you AREN’T interested then simply walk away.
Many of us who came over with CA/Symantec are middle aged and we’re making more money than we have ever seen in our whole 20+ year careers. I’m talking ordinary individual contributors not high level managers, directors and VPs.
Keep an open mind.
HT won’t request you to do the job.. if you need a job come to office.. else free to resign..
Lots of remote people at Broadcom, he's being a bit over dramatic. The point is, if you're hired in range of an office, get your azz there. If you're remote, have fun. Nobody has an issue with it really :)
What he makes sure doesn't happen is people have office based contracts and work from home, that's not allowed, is tracked and will come down on you ultimately leading to termination.
People came back because the job is fair and the pay is crazy good (in stock), hard to find a better job out there unless you don't care about money.
100% agree with you. Every single research proves otherwise. HT is time to retire my friend! Go learn to play some golf and stop watching F-ing TV
so no remote work because he _feels_ like people aren't as productive...because he wasn't productive???? this decision is not made based in reality or studies that prove otherwise?
Bring more value than they can find by posting an online ad looking to replace you and you’ll find water under your feet.
Count in Pods and DEI too
+ from me
I wish someone from BC would comment on this. The story Hock shared about post-covid...what drove those thousands to come back to the office vs finding another job? Is it that great of a place to work? What's the average tenure of a BC employee? Not a rhetorical question - looking for genuine feedback.
He kind of overstated the remote work thing. A ton of people at Broadcom WFH and they do NOT have to walk on water to keep those assignments. They simply don’t live near offices. It all depends on where you land on the map.
What you’ll find are clumps of certain groups in offices because that’s where teams were built and those are the teams who we asked to stay.
They are always watching my friend!
When is Big Brother going to start monitoring?