Submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video::“I’ve seen better acting by hostages in direct to DVD movies,” one anonymous worker wrote about the video.
All of their tech job openings are in India or Vietnam. I’d have assumed a major US health data handler would be developing onshore!
“We’re not asking we’re informing” lollll
Having said that… People working from home has been the biggest frustration in my work for the past three years. I specifically picked a company where people like to come in, and are required to for at least three days. I want to work with people, not anonymous voices with cameras switched not responding to calls and messages (I’m sure they’re all hard at work lmao)
Incidentally you’re one of the reasons the majority of workers don’t want to return to the office.
That’s fine, they can work somewhere else
I’ll say this. What works for you doesn’t always work for everyone else, and I feel like that’s kind of the point. The CEO/CFO cares more about bringing people back to the office than they do about their employees. I hear you, it’s healthy to interact with people, and If that’s what you need awesome. But a lot of other people don’t feel that same way. I think it’s going to take tolerance on both sides for this paradigm shift to be a success.
It depends on the kind of work you do. My work is very collaborative, and despite trying I’ve not found online collaboration as effective.
It doesn’t help that the people working from home seem to have very different priorities.
This is entirely a cultural problem if that’s what you experience with remote employees.
My company is remote-first with WeWorks for those who want them. Every meeting 90% of people have their cameras on, and the other 10% are either attending to something more important than the meeting or just not feeling it that day. No one questions them or gets onto them because we’re not children.
If many people regularly have their cameras off in meetings then maybe your meeting isn’t worth their full attention, and they’re working on something else. Not every meeting needs everyone to be there. I’d wager part of the reason my company doesn’t have this problem is we have an extremely low meeting culture. Impromptu meetings/discussions are encouraged and we often Slack huddle for 5-10 minutes when needed which cuts out a lot of the bullshit.
At my prior job we accounted for 2 hours a day of meetings when planning and it was a fucking drag. Now I have 3 1/2 hours of recurring meetings per week, with a sync for new projects/initiatives every few weeks. I get so much more done every day because I’m not listening to an endless stream of information which should have been an email.
Is the company hiring (in Europe) by any chance? 😄
This guy CEOs!
They were probably concerned that all their employees are getting cancer.
Dude in his boxers is late for the no-pants subway ride, which only people who work in person participate in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Pants_Subway_Ride
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
The No Pants Subway Ride (or No Trousers on the Tube Ride in the UK) is an annual event where people ride rapid transit or subway while they are not wearing pants. Beginning in New York in 2002, the event spread to as many as sixty cities as of 2013.
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That’s just a normal Tuesday in NYC
Where is the video?
Thanks! I actually already found a link in another post, but this should help others in this post.
Cringe
“Don’t fuck with us, or we’ll rip your nuts off!”
Eww@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s great how all the executives recorded their videos not in the actual office.