Interesting comment in the email today. "If you are a remote employee, please continue to work remotely for now. There will be further communications to come on this topic". I bet they will at some point tell those who are remote to relocate within a specific time frame or be laid off. Just another reason to be looking for another job if you for some reason have not started yet.
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The radius policy in the UK is 25 miles if it helps at all?
Though if your contract is remote as your place of work I wouldn’t worry.
For me, it's not the office that makes me miserable so much as the three hour round trip commute i have to get there.
Locally I am within 50 miles of an office but never commuted as it is impossible due to the daily traffic.
For 9am meetings in Staines / UK - I have to leave the house at 5:30am and if I finish 5:30 I won't be home before 9pm.
The radius is 50 miles, but roadmiles nearly twice that and part of it is one of the busiest roads in the UK
your VMW utopia
Hybrid work is not utopia… it is the new normal.
“The best you will get his hybrid. Companies are not going to pay bay area salaries for remote employees.”
Companies don’t pay job Bay Area employees Bay Area salaries. Even at VMW, employees made significantly less in lower cost areas. Meaning they are actually cheaper to employ. East coast roles have more overlap with both west coast and Europe/Asia, which is also beneficial in a global organization.
BC has announced that remote work arrangements for current WFH employees will continue until further notice, allowing for flexibility during this transitional period. Once operations have stabilized, the company plans to reinstate its traditional policies. As the job market improves, BC anticipates a natural turnover, allowing for a shift in workforce dynamics without the need for severance packages.
We’ll see. Tides turn very quickly - especially when there’s $40bn of debt….
For me, it's not the office that makes me miserable so much as the three hour round trip commute i have to get there. If the office was on my doorstep i would be much more disposed to show up.
Why are you all so obsessed with being rich? Why would i want to be miserable day in day out for money when i could actually enjoy what i do
Job doesn't change. Just location. What you really mean is why be miserable because I have to work in an office.
That's fine. Good luck with that but you will have to find another employer. The best you will get his hybrid. Companies are not going to pay bay area salaries for remote employees.
Why are you all so obsessed with being rich? Why would i want to be miserable day in day out for money when i could actually enjoy what i do and live my life with the little time we're given?
///RTO is a legacy policy. A u-turn within 90 days for sure..
Seriously, you all need to stop this nonsense. Hock is not changing anything. The world has changed since post-covid. He will make you rich but you gotta let go of your VMW utopia and join the ride or step aside and let a fellow teammate who is better qualified than you ,yet got laid off, to reapply for your job.
BC hasn’t woken up yet to the challenge of retaining top talent. VMware was mainly carrot; BC clearly stick. The combined group are carrot driven (38K carrot, 20K stick)….a new approach is blindingly obviously required…..VMware customers can vote with their feet…..
What about all of the Broadcom people who already work remotely? They do exist even though many would tell you otherwise.
I'm glad I'm an IC and can work remotely indefinitely. Per Hock himself last week it's on video.
"But what about transition? It says you will principally work from your location before VMware. What if your location before VMware was remote but you live within 50 miles from a Broadcom office?"
This was asked by somebody in a all hands mtg. The answer was go to nearest Broadcom office even if none of your team is there, "for collaboration".
The managers are all too happy to appear tough, to please BC. They are not able to think on there own.
To scare the remote people into finding a new job asap so BC won’t pay severance when they lay the remaining ones off. Crystal clear.
But what about transition? It says you will principally work from your location before VMware. What if your location before VMware was remote but you live within 50 miles from a Broadcom office?
The same people who doubt that BC will make people relocate are probably the same people who believed VMW leadership when they told us how BC would handle this acquisition differently than they handled them in the past and that they were pretty sure that there wouldn't be mandatory RTO.
Of course they won't "make" you relocate, just force you to make a choice. The "for now" is very telling no matter how you BC lemmings try to spin it.
I doubt BC will make people to relocate. Too many employees will quit in a matter of a few months, and many senior executives will need to relocate as well. BC have remote positions just not common.
RTO is a legacy policy. A u-turn within 90 days for sure..
please layoff me now
This is not new. It is already in the Day 1 FAQs.