Facebook To Start Reopening Silicon Valley Offices in May (bloomberg.com) 22
Facebook will start to reopen its Silicon Valley offices beginning in May, a signal the technology industry may return -- at least in part -- to the office after more than a year of working from home during the global pandemic. From a report: Facebook will begin by opening Bay Area offices at just 10% capacity, and expects that its largest offices, including its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, won't reach 50% capacity until early September. Employees have been able to work remotely since offices were closed last spring, and will be allowed to continue doing so until a month after their office returns to 50% capacity, a spokesperson said.
Open office concept waiting for you with open arms (Score:4, Funny)
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And if you think that was annoying before, wait until you return to that hell after working at peace* from home for over a year!
* does not apply to people with young kids.
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* other family members beside baby goats. :P
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If the price for working at FaceBook is an office environment that's Hell on Earth, I really have no problem with that.
The punishment should really fit the crime though. There should be racist grannies patrolling the floor, SJWs continuously pestering you to get them out, and an endless barrage of ads for things you don't want, with a company-installed device that shoots a bit of dopamine in to your system every time you interact with them.
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There should be racist grannies patrolling the floor, SJWs continuously pestering you to get them out, and an endless barrage of ads for things you don't want, with a company-installed device that shoots a bit of dopamine in to your system every time you interact with them.
Sounds like something the Allied Mastercomputer dreamed up.
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this time last year... (Score:2)
"work from home forever" was being thrown around by a lot of these companies...
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Yep, I've been saying this the whole time. Don't make any life altering decisions like moving out of the city just because your employer said you would be able to work from home forever. A lot of employers are going to end up calling people back in the next year.
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"work from home forever if you want" was being thrown around by a lot of these companies...
There fixed that for you.
Interested to hear HOW they will protect people (Score:2)
Even in deep blue states, there's still a few MAGA folks who think wearing a mask makes them a cuck and according to polls, about 1/3 of Republi
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Time to grow up kids... Treating fellow humans as potential infection vectors is inhuman.
Time to grow up, bleeding heart, nobody has to respect the "culture" of anti-vaxxers.
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Just require everyone to wear a mask all day every day and all will be fine.
Mask in a COVID-infested open office? (Score:2)
Just require everyone to wear a mask all day every day and all will be fine.
Most likely, that will be required for all of 2021. However, how much would you trust a mask? Would you voluntarily spend 8h with 100 people on your floor in an office building, knowing half of them rode a crowded subway and commuter rail line train into the office? ...reminder, this is a tech office with low cube walls where you can stand in 1 corner and see every monitor. If someone has COVID, particles WILL get on you.
If this was my only way to feed my family, yes, I'd do it. Give me a choice betwe
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The first thing that concerns me is that we’ve yet to have a serious discussion about the ease with which non-human diseases are crossing the species barrier in to humans. T
What's their phone number? (Score:2)
I have a few thousand complaints I want to unleash on their delicate shell-like ears.
They open the offices... (Score:2)
Ok so... (Score:3)
not long ago FB and Twitter and some other tech firms were promising WFH forever. They touted the robust architecture and the wonders of Zoom and all the efficiencies. Now they seem to want people to start coming back to the office.
I don't think they can legally force everyone to get the Covid shot but let's suppose they did. 100% of return to office workers get the vaccination. As I understand it, none of the vaccines are more than 90% effective. So if the office has 1000 employees, all vaccinated, then 100 of them could potentially be carrying the virus. What guarantee can that employer give me that I won't get sick? And will they accept liability if I do? I suspect the answer is None and No.
Aside from that, are these not all Green companies trying to reduce emissions and save the planet? If that is the case then why are they asking thousands (potentially) of employees to hop in their cars, pollute the air and contribute to traffic gridlock in order to go to an office where they cannot guarantee your safety?
What about the work/life balance that they all so proudly crow about? If you sleep 8 hours and work 8 hours that leaves you 8 hours for personal time. If you spend an hour each way (not uncommon in large cities) then you are wasting 25% of your personal time making an unnecessary commute. Not to mention that you are exposing yourself to the possibility of being involved in an automobile accident.
They all say they are worried about losing the "company culture" by having people remote. Bullshit. Middle managers are worried about being exposed as useless do nothings and CEO's are worried about white elephant office towers they have to heat cool and pay taxes on and can't sell to anyone.
Same comment, more visibility? (Score:3)
My company started offering 50% telework to IT staff last year. When it started some coworkers were like, "Oh, I treat it like a half day" Others wouldn't be available on MS Teams, or by phone. Others would put in their notes, "Will address this next week when I'm in office"
I warned all of them, don't pull this crap.. This is our one and only chance we'll have to prove we can be responsible employees teleworking. Looking at our service now stats, looks like I'm the only one who took that advice. Everyone else had closure rates that dropped in the toilet, while mine skyrocketed. For incidents I'm 25% of second, and tasks I'm 75% ahead of second. Compare this to last year when I was in the bottom 10.
Looking at the traffic driving home today, traffic has almost returned to normal. At least my boss is willing to let me continue my telework though. I just feel like running through the office yelling that Charlston Heston line from the end of Planet of the apes.
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
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I just feel like running through the office yelling that Charlston Heston line from the end of Planet of the apes.
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Some of us trying to work here!