Thread regarding VMware layoffs

"None of your points matter. This is just some loser of a ceo with too much money and power over people's lives. All he has to do is say, yup... Everyone back to office, deal with it. I'm so ready for these dinosaur boomers to die and their archaic way of thinking along with them."

Wow, I get you don't like RTO and neither do I, but what a hateful and nasty comment.

None of your points matter. This is just some loser of a ceo with too much money and power over people's lives. All he has to do is say, yup... Everyone back to office, deal with it. I'm so ready for these dinosaur boomers to die and their archaic way of thinking along with them.

One honest observation, I am in a 10 people team, most teammates are good and professional, but we have 3 guys are always offline, become online only after 4PM, they are us based. An as you all know, vmware has NO performance management, you can not fire them, PIP takes half year. So for those 3, they need to be in the office to perform, unfortunately the other 7 who can do great job at home are dragged to office along with these 3 su-kers.

Because the CEO was born in the 50's and cannot comprehend trusting people enough to WFH

Don’t forget he also expects you to be distracted by fixing the fence or doing laundry… trust I always thought was a 2 way thing… oh well!!

No way I’m going back to the office.

Literally every meeting I have involves people overseas and even those in my team that I might potentially bump into if I did go in won’t be there most of the time.

Based on the work I have seen, thousands are doing fu-k all at home. BC is a surveylance employer anyway. Micro management and staring and spying.

You get it, I get it, we all get it. Science and studies have shown WFH to be better.

None of that matters. The person who writes you a cheque does not get it and you will never change his mind. That's all that matters.

You either accept it or move on.

Some of the distractions you mentioned also happen at home, along with some other distractions at home.

What Hock did not mention he gives flexibly to GM of a business unit to have 25% head count to work from home. Obviously this applies a lot to employees with knowledge that would be hard to replace. Like an engineer whom wrote a critical portion of a product and is heavily relied on. That person even if he/she is close to an office and insists to work from home would be able too in most cases. Ultimately it is up to your GM and hock will not fight the GM for each case hence the flexibly but if he sees a large portion of the unit not coming into the office he would then get more involved. This flexibly he did not mention it because he wants to scare everyone initially to try to get as many in the office if possible if you are within 50 mile range.

You can continue working from home under Broadcom if they decide to keep you and if you don’t have a local office to report to.