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

Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by rr888 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:48PM (#32419407)

> Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight

I read loads of blogs and posts where people are loving WFH, doing very little and openly recommending tech career to others because its so great. They might not think they're a dead weight, they just think thats what modern working is like.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by sokoloff on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:11PM (#32419611)

There were coffee-mug-carriers and hall-wanderers back in the office as well. I don’t think it’s new in WFH, but at least now they bother fewer people with their “checking in”.

I swear one guy must have gotten 15K steps/day in just wandering around the building.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by geekbird on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:42PM (#32419868)

Seriously.

One job I was at had four of us working in one room. A guy from a completely different department would wander in with his cup of whatever and talk at us for at least an hour. He was both dodging actual work and interrupting us. Since he didn't report to our manager there was nothing we could do. His boss was a piece of work as well.

It's these useless people that make open plans so toxic. It's bad enough that the general noise and visual distraction decreases your ability to concentrate and get anything done, but the wandering trolls of gossip and sports talk just add an extra booger icing on the shit cake.

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