Our planning is done in Jira and Confluence. Everyone is sitting in front of there PCs, Meeting in Person isn't doing anything beneficial to our current process.
This is exactly it. WFH is a privilege that you get when you prove you can perform even when you’re sitting at home in your PJs surrounded by distractions + nobody can see what you’re doing. It’s not some God-given right.
Even if they are meeting their "quota" and doing their jobs.. if the company at this moment think its time to return to office .. its time .. not much anyone can do.... its a job not slavery ... you can always find another or try to re-adapt to office work.
Yeah, I like having a day or two in the office with my team so we can hammer out any issues and agree on architecture decisions if any have to be made.
Fuck that. Too many “dedicated soldiers” going along with poor leadership is what landed Ubisoft here.
Oh fuck off with this, as opposed to shareholders who are all Me, Me, Me, or the CEOs who are all Me, Me, Me.
Not all companies have big time shareholders. And not all companies have giant millionaire and billionaire CEOs. Most companies have modest levels of employment and salaries.
wfh is on average is a ~20% hit to performance (based on some internal statistics I saw), and you can't just hire 1 more for every 4 people - it will stretch management capacity. So wfh is a big hit to everything in project (quality, speed etc) and should be allowed only for those who can prove that they can work without significant impact on productivity.
We're talking about Ubisoft here, they're not some small company, your anti union talk is pointless in this aspect.
Agreed.
Sure it's valid.
What’s her OF
There's sketchy rumours saying UBI will fire 8,000 people if they get bought out (go lean as the new company takes over).
Their argument is that their jobs can be done from anywhere. Okay. People in India or other places much cheaper than Paris will gladly come into an office full time for much less pay and will be thrilled by the opportunity.
But they'll fight back.
I believe we've spoke about this before but your way of working just doesn't apply to most industries, the employer will screw over their workers as much as they can if it saves them money. Loyalty is a two way thing and one side gave it up first for more money and it wasn't the workers.
Yup
It's just ignorance.
I cant speak for Europe because it seems there's a lot more union membership there, but in Canada and US that's totally untrue because there's way more % of jobs in the economies that are non-unionized. And the economies run fine and people get paid fine.
Sounds like they need a good kick in the ass honestly.
And yet US workers have some of the worst conditions and job security around, how's your sick pay? How's the holiday pay? How's your emergency procedures? How's your maternity and paternity? How's your security when it comes to getting someone higher up who dislikes you for no reason and makes your job worse for it? Don't get me wrong I DO agree that a lot of people are banking too much on WFH and are being entitled towards it but in instances like this a union would be acting towards what their members put forward and in this case it's over WFH.
Capital vs Labor rule 101: when dealing with those FILTHY, DISGUSTING, DIRTY, poors.... The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Not everyone likes working from home. I did it during covid for two years straight. I like being back hybrid style. But I'd do it 5 days if it was mandated. It's not difficult to figure out how to drive to work like before covid.
