Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Laziness is irrespective of location. Like everyone else, I've recently started going back into the office. What I see while on endless Teams meetings (there's no one in my BU in my office, everything is Teams) is a pretty fair number of people that don't seem to work at all. They stare out the window or chat, they go for walks, and spend perhaps 10 minutes an hour at their desk. There are old boomers (probably the same ones calling remotes lazy) asleep in the cafeteria. One in particular has two nap sessions a day, sometimes for an hour at a time. There's a younger woman who spends about 20 minutes each hour walking the floor and watching YouTube.

Now, I'll admit: these people were probably lazy during WFH, too. And you could argue that the fact that they're visibly doing it at the office might make it easier to police. However, their managers aren't even in this office. They have other team members here, but I don't know that anyone is calling them out on it.

In contrast , I am doing the same amount of work I was doing at home. I have to: my entire team is remote to me and the number of meetings hasn't decreased after the RTO mandate. I just lose 3 hours a day in commute now.

Funny- I am a current employee on a zoom team call right now. They only pulled licenses for those who had not hosted a call in the last 90 days.

This is a pointless thread. Half the participants are just trolls who clearly don't work at Dell. NO ONE at Dell is that passionate about people being in the office. The only reason they did RTO was to encourage people to quit so they wouldn't have to lay off so many in August. Hardly anyone at Dell is allowed to use Zoom anymore, so the person complaining about the Zoom meeting is making it up.

Typical in the office story. We had a zoom call yesterday. 3/4 of the people were in the office right down the hall from me while only 1 person was remote.

Why’d we all go in the office to be on zoom? Phenomenal waste of time.

RTO is dead along with selling hardware at a loss.

I am in customer interfacing role and remote work, travel work or field work has long been the norm. With the pandemic WFH, I am burning 15-18 hours every day. With all of our industries globalized, the Americans get the worst of the deal of having to accommodate both Asia and Europe. WFH for disciplined people brings companies far more value than they realize. I mean companies have logs of employee electronic activities... why not look at the meetings and email traffic that are started early in the morning and go all the way to the middle of the night... I still go to the office when I need to complete certain tasks that are more efficiently done in office. If I am forced to go to the office everyday mindlessly, I will cut off my work around 8-9 hours.

Totally agree. Going back in the office is incredibly unproductive. Dell more specifically needed to pick a side. Either you’re all in or you’re out. All the other companies did and so should Dell. Remote work is awesome. But pick a side Dell

It's has nothing to do with being lazy or productive. Just a way to help cull the herd.

Why spend an hour in traffic both ways when you can roll out of bed and login ready to work? Working remotely I worked greater hours than if I was in the office. Felt more efficient as well. We are all adults, we don't need babysitters. And if you do, that's your fault.

If you are my employee I want you in the office and 100% of the time that I am paying for, because I know that at home your doing what you want.

Same. Remote worker for 13+ years. IT Mgmt. On calls most of the day for planning and many nights for execution.

You cost too much you’ll be replaced by chat AI Bot.