[quote=an][quote=Coronita]Well anecdotal story… I have a friend who works at a small biotech company. She’s on the administrative staff and they and support were all told to go back to the office starting next week…
However all the scientists and researchers…They are allowed to work remotely indefinitely.
Now this might seem a bit unfair, because it is. But you know why the company did this, right?
The company views the administrative staff as easily replaceable so they get treated like crap. And their philosophy is well if you quit go ahead we’ll just find a replacement.
However, when it comes to the scientist and engineers. It seems like they don’t want to fvck with them, because I guess if they said the same thing, the scientist and engineers would just walk across the street to a competitor.
Go figure.[/quote]
Yep. Also, for every 1 big company that make their employee goes back to work, there are a few not as big that are going fully remote. Here are some:
Stripe, Shopify, Twilio, Jobot, CloudApp, Slack, Meta, SalesForce etc.
Even Amazon is still advertising for remote positions on LinkedIn.
Also, good luck to the companies who try to tell their engineers to go back to the office after they have already moved. I doubt they’ll fire them lol.[/quote]
I have intel at what goes on at Qualcomm on this very issue and it’s very comical.
so you have some folks who are very concerned who think going back to the office everyone should wear masks and show proof of vaccination….
Then you have a bunch of people who refuse to wear masks and refuses to vaccinate citing individual rights..
Then you have the first group say fine if that’s the case segment the workplace.somthst unvaccinated and in masked people occupy one part of the offices and the vaccinated masking people occupy the other.
Then the unvaccinated unmasked people claimed this would be discrimination because bases on whether someone was masked or not and citing Hippa privacy for someone’s vaccination status….
Then you have the vaccinated group expressing concern that about having in person meetings and what if they get sick….and is the company going to be liable for creating an unsafe work environment….
So then as a mediation it was proposed that meetings in office be conducted via video conference….which imho would defeat the entire purpose of returning back to work in person….
I think when it’s all said and done, what’s going to happen is what my employer picked. Hybrid model… Those that want to go into an office can do so… Those that don’t want to don’t.
And hiring for engineers will continue to be open for remote “for the right candidate”, where the requirements for interview go up for that flexibility..where you end up having sort of an engineer’s caste system. In which your cream of the crop techies get what they want and those that aren’t that good wash out in the interview process. Lol, I’m one of these people that wash out in some interviews.
That’s how I’ve been getting approached lately my the big 3… Microsoft, Google, Facebook have all been pinging me about work and their time has definitely changed. Because in the past I said I can’t relocate and the convos would stop there, but these days the recruiters are saying we are remote friendly for the right candidate. I guess if they are willing to spend that much on an employee they really want , letting them work remote is the least of their concerns. I mean shit for some of these companies, they are saying take 4 weeks to study for an interview and send you a guide or recommend an interview prep company. No different than at SAT prep class. Lol…that’s pretty intense….if I was younger I might have motivated to study and go through with the interview.
Personally, I miss going into an office, but that’s me.
