Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies::In a meeting on Tuesday after completing the $69 billion merger, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told VMWare employees their days of working remotely were over.
Broadcom CEO announces layoffs through obscurity.
Constructive dismissal
Goodbye talent
Either they’ve already inked special exceptions with their top talent, or those guys are about to leave.
Can’t imagine it’s too big a pool of engineers at the very top of virtualization technology.
On the other hand, they must think its portfolio is a rather stable set of solutions, while the bulk of innovation is moving towards kubernetes like solutions.
They are considering to transform the business model more like oracle, sap, cisco, where the core business is sales not innovation. Their plan is probably that they have such a strong position in the market that talents are not needed, just average people who can patch out stuff somehow.
I have too much technical experience to agree with them thwthis is a good call. I believe it will be a disaster on the long run. But their background is clearly different, and they saw on the market a huge amount of successful companies which such business model. First among all pre-nadella Microsoft.
They’ll squeeze 5 years of blood from entrenched customers. That’s enough of a win.
The absolute disrespect for workers. Why talk to them this way?
That way of treating the younger generation won’t fly. The boomers put up with it, even some gen x. But the millennials and zoomers are all about workers rights. This dude is about to find out.
So time to devalue their company after purchasing? Aiming for tax writeoffs?
Literally trying to get people to quit so they don’t have to fire them because it is more expensive.
I’m sure that’s part of the plan, but this counts as constructive dismissal in most jurisdictions. IOW, they are entitled to unemployment benefits.
The ones that simply find a better job are a different story. That’s the Dead Sea Effect.
git out.
git commit -m “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
To quote a line from Star Wars, “This deal is getting worse all the time!”
Guess which of your competitors offer remote working and has a product that smokes you?
Haven’t touched VMware for years Hyper-V does everything I need.
Now with Azure I don’t even need to manage the virtualisation just use an arm template to spin something up in 2 secs. I know Azure compute uses something based off Hyper-V, haven’t really used AWS, does Amazon use technology from VMware for their virtualisation?
AWS is all in house but similar to open stack. Enterprises use VMware. But that’s been dropping a lot for like a decade. Containers won a long time ago.
That's one way to execute a layoff
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yay. Hope this turns out great for him.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It will. This is just more layoffs disguised as back to office. They’ll lose a bunch of good workers, but they bought VMware for the customer base, not the workers.
America needs to start fighting for worker rights, it’s just sad how little they have.
Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re looking at it from the wrong angle: They’re ditching anyone that won’t lick boots
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeah, vmware has a pretty good stranglehold on companies using on-premises hardware.
My last job was like this. We had basically 2 sysadmins (now 1) that managed hundreds of servers for about 30+ research scientists. There was no way in hell that people were going to adopt kubernetes (nobody in the entire team had any expertise in containerization, let alone k8s), IaaS was too expensive for their meager budgets, and it’s not like anyone is going to switch virtualization vendors.
So anyway, the writing is clearly on the wall for them. Pretty soon, you can be sure that the prices are going to get cranked waayyyy up. Current vmware customers will likely find themselves in a pretty unfortunate position soon.
Oh well. But this is what happens when you depend too much on commercial vendors.
Wodge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Since they already deal with a fair few of VMware’s customers themselves, I’d say they probably bought VMW to bolster it’s software offerings. They seem to be wanting to get rid of a lot of the staff there, so customers tend to build relationships with their vendors, and burning those bridges ain’t going to help there.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Do workers in other countries have a right to work from home? I’m not trying to argue with you here, I think wfh is a good thing and forcing people back to the office is stupid, I’ve just never heard of anything like that.