“With more people in the office, we are in a better position to use our own technologies”??? What? Do they actually know what their product is?
Classic corporate doublespeak, IMO.
“This is bad, but bad is good.”
Previously, they can’t test in production because if it cause an outage, zoom employees must use Google Meets to coordinate a fix. If their employees are all in the office, they can push directly to production without fear of being locked out, therefore increasing productivity. /s
I think they are just looking to reduce their headcount
To be replaced by commute fatigue
The same BS my last employer was droning on and on about when he forced us all back because “collaboration”!
He spoke about “zoom fatigue”, which isn’t a real thing btw but that’s another matter entirely, and how being in the same building was better for us as a team.
The amount of collaboration it spark was exactly how many fucks I give about Zoom.
More like meeting fatigue. And I had that before we had video calls.
But Zoom is a shit company anyway. I’m still pissed they bought Keybase just to let it die the slow death.
also people of certain personality types that are incapable of recognising that other people have different preferrences or needs to keep them happy and efficient. after the whole ‘we’re all in this together’, ‘we care about your wellbeing’ propaganda so so quickly turning around and saying ‘fuck you, come in’ from so many companies, ive become work fatigued and genuinely cant be fucked right now to do more than the bare minimum. probably should use some of my hundreds of sick days
They’re just all going to be in the office and attending zoom meetings.
Yah, so bizarre seeing a large room (because there are no available small rooms) with a single individual chatting on a meeting.
Is this how far humanity has come.
Also offices are so noisy.
That’s a good way to lose all your top talent.
Don’t let it fool you, they’ll make exceptions to the rule for the ones they want to keep. This is just a way to make their “worst” performers miserable so they quit instead of laying them off. All the
shittech companies are doing it.As a datapoint from the other side, my company (big tech) is holding the party line no matter what. Lower level engineer or director - if you don’t come in the requisite number of days a week, you’re out. It’s a bafflingly short-sighted move, but company culture is more important than anything apparently.
You don’t have to waste people’s time and burn gas in traffic to foster a meaningful company culture. This is just about management egos needing to feel important, and always has been.
It’s just sunk cost fallacy on office space.
This really depends. You would think that a company would know who it’s top performers are, but if you are engineer who is more than two managers away from C suite, chances are the person who decides to end your job doesn’t know or give a shit who you are, they just know that your salary is among the higher end. If a company wants to attract top talent they can always do so later
Just before the new covid wave nobody is vaccinated against. Nice.
Is this news I’ve missed?
EG.5, variant of omicron
Zoom leadership and executives do not trust their own product.
They want that 50 mile radius salary market. Competing with the entire country is expensive.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
At that time, Zoom chief financial officer Kelly Steckelberg cited an internal survey showing that about 85 percent of employees who work remotely “want it to stay that way.”
It’s still unclear why Zoom settled on a 50-mile radius as its requirement for returning to the office, whether employees can seek exemptions, or if performance reviews will depend on in-office attendance, ComputerWorld reported.
But Business Insider reported that market value has since dropped by at least $100 billion, mostly because so many companies over the past two years began requiring workers to return to the office.
Zoom’s spokesperson said that with more workers in the office, “as a company, we are in a better position to use our own technologies, continue to innovate, and support our global customers.”
Yuan said on an earnings call that building up Zoom’s AI capability is a priority, ComputerWorld reported, and it’s possible it has become an all-hands-on-deck situation.
The future will tell if pivoting to AI and requiring the majority of employees to return to the office are other mistakes for Zoom or necessary business moves.
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