'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by lhorie on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:31PM (#32418717)

People will always make up reasons if the tone of the conversation feels adversarial, but just spend a week in r/cscareerquestions to see the unfiltered sentiment: lots of people literally bragging about working 30 or even 20 hours per week as a full time employee, or who explicitly call out "slacking off" as a reason for preferring WFH. "Rest and vest". Etc.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by feet on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:02PM (#32418989)

Or maybe those are just the people who spend time on reddit disproportionately, it could be sampling error

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by vehementi on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:17PM (#32419115)

Yeah, but the claim was that nobody was like this, while there are obviously a bunch of people explicitly doing this

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by kelnos on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:31PM (#32419786)

I think it's pretty common that when someone says "nobody does X", that's shorthand for "there is probably a very small number of people who do X, but not enough to make much of a difference".

Sure, there are some people who abuse WFH, but I suspect it is far fewer people than Zuckerberg and Pichai suggest, and there are other, more important reasons for productivity losses. Reasons that have more to do with management and poor strategy than the actions of individual employees.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by feet on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:20PM (#32419141)

What percentage of the population is that person's cutoff for saying "nobody"? My assumption is that it likely was not literal

If 3/80000 people do something, is the behavior significant or relevant?

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by actually_a_dog on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:59PM (#32420353)

Depends what the behavior is and who the 3 people are.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by feet on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:12PM (#32420445)

The behavior is already defined in this thread

Do only famous people matter? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by Beldin on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:50PM (#32419427)

...explicitly claiming to do this.

I don't know that subreddit; in general this sort of thing could become the thing being bragged about in a community, irrespective of reality.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by pcthrowaway on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:51PM (#32420308)

/r/overemployed and Blind are even worse TBH, people in /r/cscareerquestions are often just trying to strike a somewhat tolerable WLB

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