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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:10AM (#30541216)
> Some team members output has severely dropped. I've seen people playing video games during work hours for example.

I'm going to be honest with you, I occasionally play video games during work hours at the office too. Way I figure it, if no one is saying anything about my output then they are receiving the value they expect for what they're paying me, and I'm not charitable enough to give them more than that.

I was only able to work from home during this whole thing for 2 weeks when the entire department had COVID (myself included). I played through Factorio[0] during those two weeks and nobody noticed.

[0] I didn't like it. It's very well made and I cannot say it doesn't successfully implement exactly the experience it intends to, I just didn't actually have fun.

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by nextlevelwizard on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:55AM (#30542583)
Except productivity has not stayd at the same level. We can clearly see that we've been pushing fewer features per quarter into production.

Also one guy doing this overtly errodes the whole team. Like why should I work all day while you play video games or go skiing or whatever in the middle of the day? Yeah nobody is complaining because they are being nice and/or assuming that your productivity has dipped do to the pandemic.

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:36PM (#30544839)
> Except productivity has not stayd at the same level. We can clearly see that we've been pushing fewer features per quarter into production.

> assuming that your productivity has dipped do to the pandemic.

Why do you not assume that productivity has dipped due to the pandemic and instead believe it is because people are working remote?

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by nextlevelwizard on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:35PM (#30546585)
Obviously these things are related. Would be insane to claim they weren't, but doesn't look good to advocate keeping full time remote working based on what is going on.
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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by kelseyfrog on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:25AM (#30543028)
When you brought this up to your manager what did they say?
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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by nextlevelwizard on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:37AM (#30543208)
Dude, I ain't no snitch.
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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by kelseyfrog on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:43PM (#30544110)
More power to you then. :) It sounds like not being a snitch is more important than feeling like things aren't fair?
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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by nextlevelwizard on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:37PM (#30546610)
What am I gonna do? Go snitch on the manager and then dudes are gonna get a warning and know that someone snitched. Next thing you know my reviews take extra week to be approved and my questions go unanswered. That ain't smart.
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