Re:Microsoft's dystopian pitch for remote work
by Apocryphon on Friday November 15, 2013 @11:51AM
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It's not the product, it's the pitch.
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Re:Microsoft's dystopian pitch for remote work
by eholder on Friday November 15, 2013 @12:04PM
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As I noted in another comment[1], Google's pitch is this:
>For your business, this means every employee and everyone you work with can be productive from anywhere, using any device with an Internet connection.
>Free your team from cubicles
>Access your work from any device with a web browser – your computer, phone or tablet – and stay productive even when you’re away from the office.
>Need to attend a meeting from your kid’s soccer game?
Re:Microsoft's dystopian pitch for remote work
by Apocryphon on Friday November 15, 2013 @02:53PM
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The ads with the silhouettes are a lot more in-your-face about fostering a lack of work/life balance, though. I wouldn't characterize it dystopian so much as it is tone-deaf, out-of-touch, and heavy-handed. Which is par for the course for Microsoft marketing. To me, it's less egregiously disagreeable than it is benignly mediocre. Oh MS, you're so corporate.