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Re:Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting l... by kmlx on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:16AM (#26658237)
same for my clients. the drop in productivity was huge and forced some of them to start letting people go.

and all of these companies are now asking their employees back to the office full time in a week or so.

i am sure that if productivity hadn't dropped during WFH then there wouldn't be such a big issue. but when the whole company stops producing, then it's pretty clear what needs to be done...

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Re:Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting l... by raverbashing on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:07AM (#26658532)
Then address the issue instead of saying "ah this sucks"

Is it their work conditions? IT limitations? Family? Just the fact that everything sucks?

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Re:Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting l... by kmlx on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:22AM (#26660162)
you have to put yourself in the manager’s shoes. before WFH x features deployed, after WFH and covid y features deployed. if y is much smaller than x then it’s clear WFH + pandemic drove this. so no more pandemic and no more WFH should bring back x.
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Re:Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting l... by stjohnswarts on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:46PM (#26667673)
Not sure I believe that, I think it was probably drop in profits because of the pandemic. My team has stayed coherent and 75% of us want to continue working from home because we're doing a bit better than last year and productivity and profits are up. There's nothing really special either about us, just a bunch of hardware and embedded engineers working on medical projects using email, webex and slack.
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Re:Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting l... by KptMarchewa on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:04PM (#26662298) 

    the drop in productivity was huge and forced some of them to start letting people go.
To drop productivity even more?
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