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Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:38 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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When I'm in the office, I don't do anything different or have access to anything different than I do at home.
Expanding on this a bit…. These big tech companies have different office spaces than a traditional business. There are pool tables, basketball courts, ping pong tables, and all sorts of other things to distract an employee during the day. It’s encouraged to a certain extent, for the employee to relax and goof off a bit during the day at the office.
Microsoft has all sorts of things like this. They have tree houses on campus, music rooms, game rooms, all sorts of stuff.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:42 pm to DesScorp
I don't work for a large corporation, but our CEO just this summer put us on remote work on Fridays and Mondays. We had previously been FT in the office with no remote work. He read some book about it by some corporate muckity muck and decided we had to adapt.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:45 pm to HeadCall
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Also, most people aren’t great employees who can work efficiently without supervision. Of course there exceptions, like all the hardworking remote employees on the OT that will be posting in this thread at 2PM on a Tuesday about how they get more done remotely than they ever could at the office. Why go to the break room to frick off and gossip when you can do it in your pajamas on TD?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:46 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Starbucks CEO lives in fricking Orange County and jet sets back in forth to Seattle on the company dime all the time
He's a good negotiator. Also shows his value. Be more valuable to a company, get the same perks.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:47 pm to MintBerry Crunch
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He's a good negotiator. Also shows his value. Be more valuable to a company, get the same perks.
I don’t care that he does it (other than spending millions of dollars on travel), but in the next breath he’ll tell you how important it is to be in the office.
Just tell the truth
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:49 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
quote:because that is your choice.... and i would bet that statement is a lie. a few posts up summed it up.. the OT is the only place where every remote worker is so great.
'm less productive in the office and it sounds like that's what they want.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:51 pm to MintBerry Crunch
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He's a good negotiator. Also shows his value. Be more valuable to a company, get the same perks.
Does this work in reverse for CEOs like Cracker Barrel chick that cost their company hundreds of millions of dollars?? Pretty sure nobody on the OT has been that big of a liability
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:52 pm to CarRamrod
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because that is your choice...
Eh, often when I know I need to sit done for hours and grind through some stuff or write technical memo’s, I’m much more productive at home. No one can stop by my office to chat about the game last night, my admin won’t ask about bills, all that bullshite
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:53 pm to DesScorp
So, initially they could work half the time from home. Now, they have to work from the office 3 days a week. Isn't that like adding a half of day of in person work?
This post was edited on 9/9/25 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 9/9/25 at 2:58 pm to ATrillionaire
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So, initially the could work half the time from home. Now, they have to work from the office 3 days a week. Isn't that like adding a half of day of in person work?
The real play is they’re going to end flexible work arrangements or remote work agreements. Those people will quit because it’s feasible to go to the office 3 days a week (or they don’t want to) and Microsoft will get a pretty big reduction in force without having to lay anybody off
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:00 pm to DesScorp
Three days a week starting in February!
THE INJUSTICE!
THE INJUSTICE!
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:01 pm to HeadCall
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Don’t care either way other than I find it fascinating who devoutly WFHs will defend their position that remote work is the best and only way.
To be fair, most of us who take WFH seriously can’t stand the bums that pretend to work when remote. They’re screwing things up for the rest of us.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:03 pm to DesScorp
For the record, over the past five and a half years since just before COVID hit to now, Microsoft's share price has more than tripled and they have a market cap of 3.7 trillion.
Maybe work from home isn't responsible for that but it certainly wasn't holding them back.
Maybe work from home isn't responsible for that but it certainly wasn't holding them back.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:05 pm to DesScorp
Big Corporate Real Estate strikes again. They can't keep getting away with this!
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:06 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Microsoft will get a pretty big reduction in force without having to lay anybody off
Probably not, unless you have some long timers sitting on a bunch of stock that are in the zone to retire anyway.
It's tough in tech right now and Microsoft pays pretty darn well. No need to let something like this get in the way of a good thing. Make Satya fire you if he wants a reduced headcount and get a sweet severance package.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:08 pm to DesScorp
A good chunk of Microsoft employees either are contractors (and they don't force them into office) or they don't live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office. This is 100% about a reduction in force.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:11 pm to DesScorp
MSFT has been going through a bunch of layoffs lately. This is just an extension of that.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:21 pm to Walking the Earth
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Probably not, unless you have some long timers sitting on a bunch of stock that are in the zone to retire anyway.
I do a decent amount of work in the Seattle market, including a lot the companies you’d know there. A LOT of people during Covid with work from home moved out of Seattle due to the cost of living. I guarantee you they have a sizable amount of their workforce that now lives a couple of hours outside (or further) downtown Seattle.
Amazon has done this same shite
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:22 pm to DesScorp
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Coleman wrote that "this update is not about reducing headcount," and instead is "about working together in a way that enables us to meet our customers' needs."
Found the lie ^
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