X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by hi-v-rocknroll on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:23PM (#41176068)

Santa Clara-San Jose area is relatively still damn expensive. (Ask me how I know.)

Anywhere with an RTO mandate is a hard pass. If they want to treat their employees like children and waste my time and money on pointless commuting to feel in-control, then count me out.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by hot_gril on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @11:19AM (#41182316)

Yeah, this has been tested every which way by now, the entire point of in-person work is to monitor employees. My manager told me outright that the only reason I can stay remote is, unlike most of the team, I didn't seem to "disappear" during 2020.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by hi-v-rocknroll on Friday August 09, 2024 @06:18PM (#41205814)

There's a unfortunate conflation of completing useful work with appearing to be present. The appearance of presence is the new 37 pieces of flair.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by hot_gril on Monday August 12, 2024 @01:36PM (#41227134)

The other new 37 pieces of flair is creating a lot of Java files with large loc and many layers of object inheritance.

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