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Square Announces Permanent Work-From-Home Policy (theverge.com) 27

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
Square employees will be able to work from home even after the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders end, Jack Dorsey told workers. From a report: The indefinite extension of the company's remote work policy echoes a similar announcement from Twitter last week. Dorsey is CEO of both companies. "We want employees to be able to work where they feel most creative and productive," a company spokesperson told The Verge. "Moving forward, Squares will be able to work from home permanently, even once offices begin to reopen. Over the past several weeks, we've learned a lot about what it takes for people to effectively perform roles outside of an office, and we will continue to learn as we go."
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  • They're not referencing Square Enix, the video game company. They're basically not operating due to cultural work-from-home issues, where many folks don't own computers as such, just mostly phones.

    Apparently, it's this company, question mark?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org].

    Some credit card/financing thing. Basically, their entire existence is subject to the whim of credit card policy changes or random security events, or just a bank group deciding to copy their business model and take their lunch.

    Alrigh

    • Huh. Apparently, a period at the end of a link will break the URL parser.

      Manual HTML to the rescue:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square,_Inc. [wikipedia.org]

      Ryan Fenton

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by kiviQr ( 3443687 )
      Many folks don't own computers. Wait what?
      • It's not that uncommon these days. Especially for people that aren't into tech. If all you do is social media, email, and stuff like that then a phone is enough for your needs. My company only issues laptops to a few departments that normally work remotely. Most of our workforce uses a desktop at work. So we have them use VM Ware from their PC at home to work remotely. However we found about 15% of our workforce needed to have a laptop temporarily issues to them. Either because their computer was so

    • Some credit card/financing thing.

      Why are you on Slashdot if you don't know about the now ubiquitous payment processor that started out with dongles to take credit card payments with a cell phone... they are nerd-famous.

      On Slashdot this is like saying you have no clue who this "Madonna" singer is, but it's probably not the famed figure from the bible.

    • You canâ(TM)t be serious. You can thank them for every charge youâ(TM)ve made by someone swiping your card with their phone. Every time youâ(TM)ve used a point of sale where they flip around an iPod in a white plastic kiosk for you to sign. And at least a dozen other payment methods.

  • It's been pointed out that a continuous low level of exposure puts you at much greater risk, meaning that nobody should be going back into the office until we have a vaccine & treatments.

    Also Grocery store employees need hazard pay and a fuck ton of it.

    • ...meaning that nobody should be going back into the office....

      You should have stopped there. Most offices are an anachronism, and all offices are well on the way to being so.

  • It didn't help.

  • But ... (Score:2)

    by PPH ( 736903 )

    ... where will the hipster employees work?

  • Wonder what will happen everywhere (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ErichTheRed ( 39327 ) on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:47PM (#60075278)

    WFH as it is in COVID world isn't a great test. Unless we're planning on having childless Millenials run the world, there has to be some way to care for kids during the day (school, daycare, etc.) Right now it's crazy with both my wife and I still working (which is good) but having to make sure they're doing their school work also and dealing with interruptions. It's cute for the first few Teams or Zoom calls but you can tell it wears on the "proudly child free" crowd.

    Even with that covered, IMO tech companies assume that everyone has a great home office and plenty of space. We're fortunate to have enough workspace for both of us, but I know that's not the norm. All those people living in tiny NYC or SF apartments doing conference calls in their bathroom aren't going to want to do this long term. At the same time, you have employees and jobs that just require babysitting. Call center employees with very few exceptions fall into this category...they hate their jobs and the supervisors need to treat them like kids.

    So, just like everything, inside the tech company/SV bubble it seems like a great idea, but needs a lot of adjustment when it hits the real world.

  • Does this mean that the next Final Fantasy will be delayed?

  • Start the betting pool for what calendar date (month, year is sufficient) that they do a 180 on that policy and start expecting people to show up at an office.
  • A while ago some hackers seem to have found that Square is an ideal platform for hacking credit cards. I was one of many who found themselves suddenly getting hit with large numbers of small charges to square users we had never heard of or interacted with; it is trivial to find other people who found themselves victims of the same. I don't know what it was about the Square system that made it so attractive to small time criminals, I suspect I was hit comparatively lightly only because I watch my bank acco
  • This is cool for those who really would like to work at the comforts of their homes. clicksavvyvirtualsolutions.wordpress.com

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