Submitted 1 year ago by vidarh@lemmy.stad.social to technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.stad.social/post/20808
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you. I’d never imagine that nice Mr. Musk would do that… Oh? He’s been a total ass to workers at his other companies too you say? No, say it isn’t so…
Back to the office is such a big scam! Like the only ones defending it are absolute bootlickers to the corporate world. The legit purpose is so they can have mass layoffs without calling it a mass layoff or paying severence.
my company still has WFH and we’re more productive than ever. sometimes we go into the office by choice just to get out of our houses every now and then
How it should be. Executives aren’t dumb. They have seen study after study showing productivity jumped with the pandemic. They’re being disingenuous about why they want return to office. Socialization is part of it but that does not require 3-5 days a week.
My conspiracy theory is real estate market is driving it.
I agree real estate is part of it, but control and monitoring is another: archive.ph/oMbXp#selection-1877.0-2023.82
My previous employer (~25 people) ran a test for six weeks and had everyone come in twice a week. The metrics showed no meaningful difference in output and we went full-wfh. Got a smaller office, to receive deliveries, and tasked one person from mgmt each day with being there to receive.
I believe in the socializing aspect of office work. I didn’t care for a guy hired during the wfh period until we had a company team-building in-person event. I found out he was really great when we had dinner and beers. But that’s about as much in-person as is required. Wfh works.
It’s not about productivity bud.
archive.ph/oMbXp#selection-1877.0-2023.82
I think everyone expects their employer to track them to some extent. It is pretty standard practice for employers to monitor and run analysis on things like building badge swipes and the amount of time spent connected when working from home. It has also become very common place for employers to record audio and video at the office. WADU is on a different level. It is an artificial intelligence & machine learning system for workforce human behavior. Starting at the moment you arrive to the building, WADU is tracking you using facial and speech recognition. Most JPMC offices and branches have been outfitted with some of the best HD AV security cameras. Whenever you are at your desk, know that there is a HD camera tracking you the entire time. WADU uses the array of HD cameras at the office to monitor all of your non-verbal body language all throughout the day. The collected information is then fed into the AI/ML system and it is used to update your WADU profile in real time. Every manager gets access to a dashboard that lists all the metrics about their subordinates. The productivity metrics about an employee start getting updated immediately after an employee logs into the system. If the employee is at the office, two bio-metrics are available, attention/focus and stress. The bio-metric feeds are updated from the facial and behavioral tracking. Having a bad day? Stressed about something? WADU has already noticed this and alerted your manager. Can’t focus? Not working at your usual pace? WADU has already noticed this and alerted your manager. Did something you normally don’t do? It’s possible WADU flagged it as suspicious and alerted your manager. WADU is also why they are pushing RTO or “return to office” so hard. Upper management does not care if some employees are more productive when they are working from home. They want everyone back in the office as much as possible so that their WADU profiles are being refined. Enhancing their insight into you is more important to them than better productivity from working from home. A lot of teams are now required to come in two to three days per week. Director level and higher are required to come in four to five days per week. Upper management wants to see everyone at all levels back in the office five days a week. They have invested millions into the WADU system, and they want to get a return on that investment. That only happens whenever people are in the office as much as possible.
Fuck the office and all the bullshit that goes with it. Stop forcing people to be in a place when the job can be done remotely. If people want to go it thats one thing but those who dont should not be forced.
It’s all about real estate contracts, nothing more.
Sunk cost fallacy, though you’re still probably right. That plus a heaping spoonful of good ol boomer ignorance.
I hate that I can’t block posts about X. I have a bunch of keywords blocked with filters but obviously I can’t use X as a keyword. I’m sick of news/posts about X.
Maybe filter for ’ X’,'X ‘,’ X ’ if that’s possible
Would the second not block every word ending in x?
‘%X%’ should remove any X with spaces around it right?
Thanks, you gave me an idea, the problem was that my keyword had ’ but the title has ’ so now I had both types of quotes and it works.
ah the daily reminder that twitter is a cesspool, lead by a bunch of cunts.
Cunts are warm and inviting, these fuckers are sceptic waste with a high concentration of mercury.
labor disputes are not technology
Technology doesn’t spring from the ground from nothing. Labor in tech is still important tech news.
by that reasoning we don't need magazines since it's all part of the same universe.
Not when it’s just another article about Musk being shitty. This isn’t news, and I doubt anyone is shocked that he fired someone illegally.
They’re literally at the crossroads of technology, and it’s going to get much worse as people ignore the reality of that fact.
Yeah, I was hoping that this community wouldn’t become a Musk news feed like it was on Reddit, but here we are.
It would be nice if a technology community could actually be about technology.
Lemmy is pretty much just an Elon feed and it’s annoying AF. I get it, Elon is a shit human. I personally don’t want to promote shit humans, even if it’s to talk shit about them. Let X die
I was hoping it wouldn’t be all press release copy pasta from scam battery companies and “AI” grifts. But here we are. I’d prefer it cover actual technology that actually exists, but the odds of that are zero these days.
It is on Lemmy, where it has become an Elon bad platform, just like reddit.
The major thing I miss from reddit is the RES feature where you could block posts via keywords.
Elon
Musk
Trump
Tesla
With these four words you feed was so, so much better.
Elon chooses what to do. We choose if we want to lend credence to what he chooses to do.
Then why didn't you make the technology labor and make you not see it to begin with, HMMMMM, TEASHIPS, some /s in there because it's this timeline.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
CNBC reports that the National Labor Relations Board alleged, in a complaint filed Friday, that X violated labor law when it fired an employee who criticized the company.
Elon Musk bought the company, then known as Twitter, in October and threatened to fire workers who didn’t return to in-person office work.
CNBC writes that in the complaint, the NLRB accuses X of keeping workers at the company from exercising their legal labor rights.
In July, ex-employees of X filed a new lawsuit over the company’s alleged refusal to pay for arbitration that a judge had determined in January they were contractually obligated to use.
The judge’s decision halted their class action lawsuit that alleged that X had not given the employees proper notice under both federal and California state laws.
The company had begun laying off much of its workforce in November last year.
The original article contains 204 words, the summary contains 144 words. Saved 29%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t really like the “return-to-work” wording, it implies that when you’re working from home you aren’t really working. What’s ironic is that work-from-home hasn’t prevented Nvidia from being a trillion dollar company: fortune.com/…/nvidia-skips-return-to-office-stick…
(archive.today link without paywall: archive.ph/jzBIx)
keefshape@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I was just coming to complain about that too. It invalidates everyone who is successfully working from home, while obfuscating the fact that is really return-to-office.
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Elon is a little piss baby who desperately needs to feel in control. Same with most of these c-suite cunts to be honest.
They talk like this because it’s all about narrative, this is them trying to manipulate the court of public opinion, playing to retirees, other people who can’t work remotely, etc. I’ve seen a lot of rhetoric lashing out against office workers because of their ability to work remote. They want to apply pressure from themselves as well as from your peers.
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also, people will look at his Neuralink differently when they watch Severance 👀