Imagine being in a meeting of like 12 floating torsos, you are position locked, but your boss enabled X-Y position for himself so he floats in front of you to express his concern of how you are not a team player. If I were at meta I would backdoor a sub-routine that increases gaussian blur if the boss gets too close.
Plenty of public polls on Blind and threads on HNews to see the impact of remote work. Don't think we benefit from ignoring that for many people remote work means hardly working.
If the only way an employer can tell if their employees are working is by forcing people back to the office, the company has bigger problems that employees not working.
I'm one of those. If I get the chance to work from home I do everything in my power to slack off and fake it. No tools or processes can stop me. I find ways to exploit everything and game the system to make it look like I'm working when I'm not.
Nobody actually eats their own dogfood. They ply you with wine while they drink grape juice, waiting to take advantage of the drunk fool.
Fucking Zoom declared mandatory RTO, which says a lot about what they sell the rest of us on.
And Ford...heh. Despite incentives, their own employees refused to buy their cars to such an extent that competitor vehicles were banned or relegated to remote parking lots.
> their own employees refused to buy their cars to such an extent that competitor vehicles were banned or relegated to remote parking lots
That's actually a good thing! It means they took it seriously, and their employees were incentivized to fix the problems so that they actually wanted to drive the company's cars.
