Comment on Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package
Ducks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All these companies are following a single directive from McKinsey. That’s why all their policies are the same. 3 days a week. Within 50 miles of an office you have to go in. If you don’t you should get paid 20k less.
These numbers all come from this bullshit consulting firm with a long history of terrible advice. CEOs are seemingly incapable of critical thought.
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At a lot of orgs, I think executive leadership are basically buying the service of assigning blame to the consulting firm if things go wrong. If that happens, they can tell the board they took the advice of one of the big consulting firms everyone has heard of. The consulting firm got paid and will still get business, so I doubt they care. Though they are certainly also farming out critical thinking at the same time.
_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 1 year ago
My executive director said this in no uncertain terms. I had pointed out that some enterprise support was stupidly expensive, and that in my entire time with the institution, we hadn’t ever utilized it once. And in fact, if it ever came down to involving lawyers for breach of contract, the CEO said “no, why would we ever bite the hand we have to work with? we’d part ways first”.
And that’s when the director told me on the side: It’s a single throat to choke, something that can be pointed at and assigned blame, how to CYA at this level of the game.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If that’s the case though, why wouldn’t the consulting company just throw the workers a bone since it’s no skin off their back either way.
Meltrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because McKinsey wouldn’t want to follow that advice themselves. They want their analysts in the office where their MBA managers can micro-manage them and can make sure that they work 12-15 hours a day.
Ducks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I tend to agree with that, the backlash at my company has been wild. Lot’s of people making “career inhibiting” statements on Slack out of anger of the new policies, and in my opinion the executives have been extremely rude and disrespectful in their responses. I believe they want their US employees to leave the company so they can outsource to lower cost labor markets. Which never works out in my industry and in the early 2000s almost destroyed the company I work for, but these people never learn or care. They just want their 5th house and 2nd yacht.
SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Chainsaw consultants.