obrhoffMay 2, 2024
If you're looking for an explanation of what's happening at Google with the current layoffs, just watch this video. Steve Jobs' reflections about what happened at Apple provide the best explanation. It's something you'll encounter in all corporate companies.
#google #stevejobs #layoffs #entshittification
Show threadobrhoffMay 2, 2024

Unfortunately I think the „remote work“ and „work from home“ culture contributed a lot to it. It made it totally acceptable to work with people that you won’t meet anyway in reality.

If you're job can be done from home, it can also be done from India.

Thats the reallity we are living now.

#google #stevejobs #layoffs #workfromhome #remotework

Show threadGrayGooGlitch 
@obrhoff
If people were compensated for their commutes, if people weren't treated like cattle in offices, if management gave any fucks about employee morale / comfort, remote work wouldn't be the appealing option it is. I can work in my private, quiet, clean office at home; or in a noise-filled, "open floor plan", desk hoteling situation at the work campus. That's after a 30 minute commute through rush hour city traffic.
May 2, 2024 at 12:17pmWeb
Show threadBoredomFestivalMay 2, 2024
@GrayGooGirl @obrhoff 30 minutes commute seems like a dream. Mine was at least an hour each way. Life's too short for that.
Show threadMatěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦May 3, 2024

@GrayGooGirl @obrhoff

I think the shift from office-working to home-working has nothing to do with anything, it is just the end of The Modern Era. When there is no steam engine, why should we move over the town to work somewhere else than home? It is not because the office work is not compensated, but because there is no reason to go there.

And yes, we need bigger homes.

Read Alvin Toffler “The Third Wave” (yes, it is an ancient book).

#TeleCommute #ThirdWave #Enshitification #GoogleFree

Show threadGrayGooGlitch May 3, 2024
@mcepl
I think there is direct value in workplace social engagement from an interpersonal relationships perspective. I think in person collaboration can be more productive than large online meetings. Neither of those things make the hassle, tedium, and general discomfort of office spaces worth it.
@obrhoff
Show threadMatěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦May 3, 2024

@GrayGooGirl @obrhoff

I don’t argue with you, but I am afraid the powers to remove this historical anomaly (just a few hundred years of people working in the office comparing to the thousands of years working more or less from home) are so strong, that we will have to find some relationship building resources elsewhere.

Show threadljsMay 3, 2024
@mcepl @GrayGooGirl @obrhoff blaming layoffs on wfh is just an incredible take. I think maybe the worst one I've seen yet from a (presumably) rto advocate.

EDIT: Tone policeman claims he is a WFH advocate so correction on that 'presumably'...