We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons

Re:We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons by ryandrake on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:56PM (#27581736)

> Yeah, I think the above comment's thinking is pretty unproductive. If you "just" skip all of the meetings you don't personally find value in, you're depriving everyone in those meetings any nuggets of value _you_ could add.

I was specifically talking about the meetings OP was talking about: The ones that have no value-add and where you have no nuggets to add. You can sleep through them, or otherwise tune out and do other work in the background. Why are people even going to these? If there's really absolutely nothing you can gain or others can gain from you, just don't go. I didn't think this was a controversial view, but the votes say otherwise.

EDIT: Also, who is actually being fired for not being attendee #47 at a meeting that they are not contributing to? If you actually saw this happen, let us know the company to warn us all not to accept offers there, because that seems extraordinarily petty.

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Re:We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons by void_mint on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:58PM (#27581765)

I downvoted more for the massive condescension than anything else.

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To answer your edit: Most (all?) companies would fire an employee that refuses to comply with required company activities (meetings as an excellent example). I don't really think it's petty for a company to not allow every individual employee to decide what required team meetings are right for that individual.

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