EA is reportedly ending full remote work, mandating return to office 3 days per week

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They still had remote work? Covid was years ago. People being lazy fucked that whole thing up.
 
MMaRsu said:
Ehh man this retarded shit I keep seeing.

Its not as if you cant do your work from home.

Maybe you were lazy and think everybody was?
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No dumbass. People were using mouse jigglers and pretending to work. Yes there were some responsible and did their job but there was a majority that fucked off.
 
I do 3 days at the office and it's fine. People need to get a grip. Sure flexible home working is a great thing and should be the norm imo but people have become entitled little bitches.
 
If they don't like it, they're free to quit and find something for suitable to them. Your job is a privilege. You aren't owed the job. You also don't get to demand the employer does shit your way.
 
I don't see how people can get work done from home. I can't because all of my toys are there. I'm not disciplined enough to not play with them.
 
Gamer79 said:
No dumbass. People were using mouse jigglers and pretending to work. Yes there were some responsible and did their job but there was a majority that fucked off.
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I'm a lazy fucker but my work from home days I work harder than when on site. Everyone expects you to be available throughout your work day when you are at home, when you are on-site people just see you aren't in your office and assume you are doing *something*.
 
ReBurn said:
I don't see how people can get work done from home. I can't because all of my toys are there. I'm not disciplined enough to not play with them.
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That is the word: discipline. I worked yesterday till 1AM to deliver a code change... that management warned me only the day before yesterday...

Easy trick: create a office space visually far away from the toys (in my case, my videogame collection, since i strangely dont like playing games on PC...)
 
Gamer79 said:
No dumbass. People were using mouse jigglers and pretending to work. Yes there were some responsible and did their job but there was a majority that fucked off.
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Then fire people based on output rather than being in a fucking seat. People bullshit through their day in the office too.
 
poppabk said:
I'm a lazy fucker but my work from home days I work harder than when on site. Everyone expects you to be available throughout your work day when you are at home, when you are on-site people just see you aren't in your office and assume you are doing *something*.
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When I worked from home, I was pretty much available for 16 hours a day for whatever came up. Now I leave the office and I leave my laptop behind. Whatever comes up......just has to wait until the next morning. I can say without a doubt that my organization got more out of me when I worked from home than being in the office.

Of course, that doesn't apply to every person and every job though.
 
There are more than "a few" tech companies still doing fully remote work. Most of these companies are probably using gitlab, and gitlab has been 100% fully remote since before covid. The blanket hate for remote work is truly insane.

Not being limited to only jobs in your city/town, and not having to uproot your family for a job is a good thing. Options for how we work is not a bad thing. Obviously it's not a viable option for every job, but for the jobs where it's possible to work remotely, there's no reason why it shouldn't be an option.

There's also nothing wrong wit Hybrid. Especially if you're local. But having to be stuck in traffic for 2 hours a day to get to and from work is fucking stupid.
 
I do hybrid for mine and it's best of both worlds. I can sleep in a bit some days or work late and still spend time with the family as I have eliminated my commute. I'd hate all remote again though.
 
Loomy said:
The blanket hate for remote work is truly insane.
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Ive only seen this behaviour from Americans.

The blanket hate I mean. They also seem to love corporations and hate unions or anything that protects the same workers. Its insane
 
I am a fan of remote work. I would like remote work myself. There is very few remote opportunities left because dumb lazy fucks, ruined it for everyone.
 
For us people don't work when at the office. Productivity was through the roof during full remote. If not, it's one day a week for us at the office. Sucks for people who moved more than 100km away, we got many people who quit.
 
MMaRsu said:
Ive only seen this behaviour from Americans.

The blanket hate I mean. They also seem to love corporations and hate unions or anything that protects the same workers. Its insane
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Especially when commutes are brutal in the US. Plenty of times you are just staring at brake lights far off into the distance.
 
Gamer79 said:
There is very few remote opportunities left because dumb lazy fucks, ruined it for everyone.
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Im sure thats the reason and not the fact that employers want to keep you in office to control your time and how you dedicate your time. And to keep tabs on you etc.

Also do you have a source on the lazy dumb fucks? Why werent they fired instead? They were kept on? And they werent lazy at the office?

How did you come to this absolutionist conclusion?
 
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MMaRsu said:
Ive only seen this behaviour from Americans.

The blanket hate I mean. They also seem to love corporations and hate unions or anything that protects the same workers. Its insane
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Nah....that's way too much of a generalization. America isn't as unionized as some other countries, but that doesn't mean we "hate" them or they don't exist here.
 
It's not a real policy change anyway, not in spirit any way. This is a very popular way to lay off people in the tech sector these days without garnering the bad PR from a real lay off. Mandate return to office, knowing that many employees won't be able to due to moving too far away or will simply refuse, thereby freeing up a great many positions and reducing the team count by a huge amount without actually having to pay unemployment or severance packages in many cases due to the separation being "by choice." From a purely business person, it's very effective.
 
As someone who has been working fully remote since a couple of years before the pandemic started, it's been interesting to see how this all played out. I guess most people aren't cut out for working from home.
 
Are we still pretending that working in an office is more productive? Ppl spend most of the time bothering me and trying to talk instead of leaving me to work. I get much more distracted in an office than at home.
 
MMaRsu said:
Ive only seen this behaviour from Americans.

The blanket hate I mean. They also seem to love corporations and hate unions or anything that protects the same workers. Its insane
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Corporations and Unions are like Oil and Water for obvious reasons, and US is the most capitalist country in the world (For good).
 
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All the big tech companies are doing it sadly. Ours is almost there.

They're all watching each other, waiting for someone else to make the first move. Once somebody does, the rest follow suit, citing "policies that align with industry standards."

It's not just a hidden form of layoffs, it's a pay decrease as well. Cost of gas, cost of parking, it adds up.
 
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LordOcidax said:
Corporations and Unions are like Oil and Water for obvious reasons, and US is the most capitalist country of the world (For good).
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Are they? A lot of people in The Netherlands are in a union, and you never hear anything negative about it.

Why is it oil and water? The two can exist happily together
 
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