Nah, just quit en masse, especially the people who have the most experience there. Dell can’t do business if it doesn’t have people…
Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees
Buttons@programming.dev 7 months ago
You can tell how important working from the office is by the fact that they can’t tell whether or not people are working from the office.
Maybe people need to start talking about unionizing while in the office.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
BaskinRobbins@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Not sure why you’re getting down voted. This is exactly what happened at my last company during the RTO push, senior employees, including me, were leaving in droves and it got bad quickly. As a result the company upped their salaries and offered fully remote work instead of just hybrid to keep people around. The only way a company will listen is if you hit them in their wallets.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Probably because I didn’t say “unionize.”
A union isn’t going to fix a broken company culture, it’s just going to get more bargaining power for employees. The union won’t change priorities for the executive team to prioritize cyber security, customer-friendly products, and it probably won’t change company policy around badging. It might get more WFH, but if the executive team is hell-bent on tracking its users, the union will probably shift focus to better benefits (oh, you want to screw us over more? Pay more!).
So no, I don’t think it’s worth trying to unionize and fix the company from within. Quit and take all of that institutional knowledge with you to hit them where it counts: the stock price.
exanime@lemmy.today 7 months ago
This is the right point to make… Instead of managing people by the work they do or the objectives they achieve, they are managing literally where their butts sit