Full transcript of HT's answer during Coffee Talk (may get deleted soon):
"Work from home doesn't exist at Broadcom. I know, silence. No, it doesn't. We want you to come to offices. Now, having said all that, we don't have offices everywhere, and in technology, I do agree one thing, as I figured out now very often (we) have to go where the smart people are. It's not enough to say we're going to build a big factory or a big center outer Siberia and expect to be able to do anything, no.
So we do go where smart people are, but having said that, we have plenty of offices and we welcome people to come in. And I'll be direct, in Broadcom, if you live within 50 miles of an office, you get your butt in here, seriously. But if you're outside and you want to work remotely, you better have some criteria. One is that you're customer-facing. You go to market, you're sales, sure. Sales, why are you in the office? You should be out at the customer's; then you can be remote, I don't care.
Secondly, any other exception, you better learn how to walk on water if you want to work remotely. I'm serious. That's the only criteria you can be remote and work within 50 miles of an office. Otherwise, we gave you an office to come to work, and the key part about it is collaboration. It's also culture.
You work all over with remote, you lose the culture. And I just went through with you, I like to believe unity, pride in what Broadcom has achieved over the past many years, and it's something we like to continue. And collaboration is important and the key part of sustaining a culture with your peers, with your colleagues is important. So we ask for that unless there are extenuating circumstances as I mentioned: whether you're customer-facing that makes your difference, or very exceptionally - it may happen but typically it doesn't. All right?"