We make remote work viable.

NOT FOR US THO LMAO

These are fun. For any other CEOs reading along, here's your new policy/advertisement:

• Furniture Row could convert every employee workstation to standing only.
• Starbucks could require every staff member to go caffeine free.
• Underarmor could set a black tie dress code for all employees.
• Master lock could shut down their staff gym citing uncontrolled theft from lockers.
• Grayhound could ban employees from traveling together to events.
• General Mills could establish a rewards program for employees who participate in a daily morning fast until lunchtime.
• Atlassian and Salseforce could shift their internal help desks to in-person only with 100% paper records.
• Peterbilt could start an incentive program that reimburses staff for buying local.

That is hilarious

I’d just move further away lol

Wow that’s next level dumb. My job did something similar. Someone whose team was based out of Texas yet they still made the 2 people from MI go to the MI office. And on separate days “so someone was always available”

Then the same company closed 75% of their massive building and said the hybrid employees have to share cubes with other people. I’m so glad HR made me permanent remote.

50 miles during a commute is way too far. My employer has pushed for people whose commute would be 1 hour maximum during rush hour to try to come into an office once a week. Where I live it can take an hour to go 10-15 miles during rush hour…

There's a guy at my company that lives in Sacramento, and commutes twice a week to go in the office in mountain view. That's a 4 hour commute with no traffic.

His entire team is in the San diego office. There's literally zero point, but I guess his manager isn't willing or capable of fighting for an exception to the hybrid mandate.

I've been getting a lot of messages on LinkedIn from recruiters, a lot of these are asking me to be in the office 2 to 3 times a week. If I was to commute, I'd leave before my son is awake and arrive after he has gone to bed, working from home, I see him whenever I want.

Is the market hot right now? With all the layoffs, the sentiment on blind seems to be don't try to find a job now

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

I mean, it is crap.

They've invested a lot of money in office real estate and hate that it's going to waste.

Also, CEOs tend to be extroverts who want to be around people. They're also sociopaths who think everyone is like them (or they don't care what others think).

Combine the two and you get this.

No idea whether it's their reason, but anecdotally I've found it has a few benefits. If coordinated properly it's significantly easier to train new(er) staff, it improves cross-organisational understanding to overhear other departments' conversations either at desks or in break rooms, and it stops people becoming isolated pockets of knowledge and culture because they only ever see or interact with the same one or two people.

That's pants-on-head level stupidity.

"Pfizer tells employees to use homeopathic remedies."