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Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hate to go as cliche as "surprising absolutely no one," but really, this is not a surprise.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who could have fucking predicted

Unless that was the point and this plus big layoffs are meant to lower salary ranges for tech

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Sure as fuck happened to journalism. Except they had the balls to offer buyouts instead of just saying "your service counts for nothing unless I see the back of your head every time I meander around with a coffee mug."

The truly absurd bit of it to me is absent Covid, already working remote for years would not have been a problem. I went remote in 2016, and there's no fucking way I'd be like "oh, the recent grads you hire to chew and spit out are an issue for remote? Sure, why don't I restart the pointless thing of driving for an hour and a half a day with concomitant fuel costs, having to choose my food for the entire day at 7 a.m. or paying four times as much, and generally being more surly in my personal life so that you, dear boss, can prove you have something to do?"