I know for some teams, everyone or most of you work together (in office) however, us in IT, are spread all over the country and only ONE person from my 15 person team lives in Austin. So we will be together in office while on meetings via TEAMS with the rest of our team lol. Makes no sense. The policy should be if at least 50% of your team lives within YOUR closest office, you go in. Otherwise, it'll be business as usual except being on meetings in office lol..
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rry+1qW6QDle Oddly enough they bwant you to work all the hours they are over paying you for
Does anyone think they are reducing heads and offices rapidly to strengthen a sell off position?
The tax write-off reasoning is pretty interesting to me. I haven’t heard that before. It does make a lot of sense aaand they also get the benefit of a portion of their staff quitting which, to them, also isn’t such a bad thing.
There has been lots of different research into productivity levels in office vs WFH - the data is incredibly varied. 30% might be the insight from one research study, but it isn’t conclusive and there’s a myriad factors that effect the outcomes of these different research studies.
Poster below hit it on the nail.
In order for companies to write off and amortize capital expenditures, they need to show they were actually being used as such.
You can declare and write-off a home office. But if you don't use that office to conduct any business or work it disallows the write-off.
Dell had a fire sale on land and buildings. Then they reduced amenities and vendors. This was all at the expense of the employees. We were giving them an office, electricity, internet as we WFH.
Then when they need to amortize/expense what capital and equipment they had left they went back to tap into the same resource: Squeeze more pennies via employees by making them come back for tax write-offs.
It's despicable behaviour.
research shows employees are 30% more productive in the office - google it
they want the full control about your time
"I suspect this is a multi-year plan to re-centralize teams into the major cities where the talent pool is deep enough to hire from and sustain ops."
I think you hit the nail on the head. The offices they closed aren't coming back. They want people in the major campuses like RR. Perhaps they've had this goal for a long time, and post-covid RTO has presented them the opportunity to execute.
They need to show occupancy and use of these buildings so they can take the write offs for depreciation, costs. etc.
The point of the exercise is to lay off staff. I suspect that they have done an analysis of where their workforce lives in relation to offices and decided that a significant enough percentage live within commuting distance of an office that they can afford to shed whoever doesn't convert. From a practicality standpoint, I can't believe they actually looked at whether any of the members of a given team will actually be sitting in the same office or not, or just driving an hour to use the same connected workplace tools they use today.
I suspect this is a multi-year plan to re-centralize teams into the major cities where the talent pool is deep enough to hire from and sustain ops. Too bad in many cases they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Wonderful irony - close almost all the dell locations, then expect people to come into the office.