Back to the Office for Tech Workers

[JPJones]

[quote=Coronita][quote=XBoxBoy][quote=flu]I didn’t even know sabbatical existed at my company.[/quote]
So when’s your sabbatical gonna be?[/quote]

Holy Shit.
I’m having a great day.
My boss just resigned.
I’m in charge now.

VP for years decided to join a startup and work remotely.[/quote]

Hey, maybe they’ll let you work remotely, too! Oh, and grats on the last-man-standing promotion, of course. There can be only one!

[Coronita]

[quote=JPJones][quote=Coronita][quote=XBoxBoy][quote=flu]I didn’t even know sabbatical existed at my company.[/quote]
So when’s your sabbatical gonna be?[/quote]

Holy Shit.
I’m having a great day.
My boss just resigned.
I’m in charge now.

VP for years decided to join a startup and work remotely.[/quote]

Hey, maybe they’ll let you work remotely, too! Oh, and grats on the last-man-standing promotion, of course. There can be only one![/quote]

I already am. My company is hq’d in Florida. I’ve been wfh well before COVID.

Actually I also did my coworker senior engineer that is going on a 6 month hike a big favor.

After the sabbatical idea was given by my boss’s boss, I’ve been making sure it happens and to his advantage. He’s going to use his PTO first, so his sabbatical starts April 2. That also means he will have his health benefits for the entire month of April and only needs to get medical dental starting may.

also, since he’s on sabbatical , he’s getting his unannounced special bonus that will be paid in April. If he resigned next week as originally planned he wouldn’t have gotten his bonus.

[sdrealtor]

So kind of you to do that. He’s an employee that may actually return or follow you to your next gig. Well done

[Coronita]

[quote=sdrealtor]So kind of you to do that. He’s an employee that may actually return or follow you to your next gig. Well done[/quote]

He wants to work out of europe after he returns. lol.

[flyer]

This definitely shows how difficult it is to keep great employees, and to what lengths employers need to be willing to go to do so–which is great for the employees.

One of my sons is a partner in a venture capital firm, and,
he has seen that retaining exceptional talent is one of the greatest challenges facing many companies, and especially new ventures.

[sdrealtor]

CEO of Goldman Sachs demanded all employees return to work in office 5 days a week. Only half showed up

https://fortune.com/2022/03/11/goldman-sachs-return-to-work-employees-david-solomon/amp/

[spdrun]

They’ll just start whittling away at the hours where remote access is available to them… they’ll have to come in or get fired.

[Anonymous]

Google return to office April 4th. Apple returning April 11th.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/apple-workers-set-to-return-to-office-beginning-april-11.html

[utcsox]

[quote=deadzone]Google return to office April 4th. Apple returning April 11th.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/apple-workers-set-to-return-to-office-beginning-april-11.html%5B/quote%5D

When are the defense workers return to office?

[Coronita]

Yes, I noticed that traffic to the the Amazon, Google campuses in Sorrento Valley and Apples campus on UTC have picked up. Must be the additional new hires that weren’t there last year.. Lol….

[patb]

Unlikely,

I suspect a huge amount of tech workers to stay out of the bay area.

Too many serfs have proven happy working remote.

[spdrun]

Plenty of smart Ukrainian refugees willing to work for an H1-B …

[Coronita]

[quote=spdrun]Plenty of smart Ukrainian refugees willing to work for an H1-B …[/quote]

H1-Bs aren’t cheap unless a company is a shithead and tries to take advantage of people in bad situations.

My senior engineer we started an H1B for makes.the same $165k base as my US citizen does..one works out of Utah one works out of SD.

[spdrun]

We’re talking about tech companies in the US, right? Do you not expect some to be exploitative?

[Coronita]

I remember a few years ago, some.folks here posted about how awful it would be to work like.a slave at a big company and all the virtues of being a small independent BYOB because of how great quality of life would be…

That was before COVID.
Well let’s see now.
You have salaried tech workers with a lot more flexibility in where they work. Some able to work fully remote from out of the area, some able to work hybrid and customize their schedule to their personal lifestyle. Some like my engineer able to spend 3 months working out of a trailer touring the US other taking a sabbatical to pursue personal interest. W2 base salaries ringing in between 165k-200k+, 5 weeks of paid PTO…some companies with eveey other Friday off. Stock grants or stock option grants…bonus , plus full medical/dental/vision for family including Ortho… And a 4-6% 401k match…..my how things have changed for salaried techies…..lol.
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