Work Reform @lemmy.world Schal330 @lemmy.world 11 mo. ago

Zoom orders workers back to the office

www.bbc.co.uk Zoom orders workers back to the office - BBC News

The company says staff living near offices should work in person at least twice a week.

A company that achieved success due to people having to WFH are now forcing staff back in to the office

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Somebody should tell them about that software you can use for video teleconferences in case that opens up options for remote work. Can't remember what it's called though.
- Teams, right?
  
  Skype IIRC
- The one that is going to use all the data for AI training? They are not that stupid. ;-)
  
  To be fair, I'm certain they have a way to, like, exclude internal conversations from that. They'd be foolish not to have a system to disable collection on some accounts/calls
- No, those types of apps are obviously not useful for remote work, or else they would use one. Back to work.
- Google meet?
That's just bad PR. I can't imagine the potential profits are worth the risk.
- It’s been proven over and over remote work retains top talent and makes people better at their work. And the “productivity loss” is covered by the fact that people maybe get less done in eight hours, but work longer to make up for the productivity they lost to taking more breaks.
  
  But American capitalism has to remind the workers that their misery is part of the point.
  
  I'm not sure there is any productivity loss, I work way more efficiently at home
  
  The productivity loss takes place at the office. You go from being able to solve problems all day to having Susie Homemaker and Joe Blob wanting to talk to you about the sportsball event when you're in the middle of super complicated logic. You go from being able to use the restroom 30 seconds from your desk to walking 10 minutes to get to the closest one at the office. You go from making a quick sandwich and then getting back to work, to driving miles away to find something decent to eat. Every engineer I know is more productive at home.
- More likely, they've reached critical mass and are now using this as a downsizing move. They know a % will quit. Will reduce the number they have to float until eventual layoffs.
  
  Aren't they risking losing their most talented workers doing that? I assume they can more easily find jobs providing the flexibility they're looking for.
Oh what irony
- Yeah, you would think a company that would promote remote working would be company that creates tools for remote working.
  
  These people only care about the supposed "productivity loss" that is supposedly introduced from remote work.
- it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. HEY!
Is their software so bad that they can't even use it for its intended purpose?
- I personally really don't like zoom. Apparently still useful for mass layoff calls
  
  In a company meeting yesterday, by any chance?
- Why was it even popular in the first place?
This is so deliciously hypocritical.
This is on top of the changes to their Terms of Service that enables them to use anything on your calls to train their AI and scrap any customer data.
- I know a lot of therapists and doctors that use Zoom...
Where is Zoom even HQed? These articles are shitty.
- Quick search says San Jose, California.
This is just epic shortsightedness.

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