alt Hacker NewsWhich is why junior and senior talent alike are forced back into the office. Except that tenured senior and staff employees from the boom times are in the San Francisco office, but all the new grad hires from the last 2-4 years are in various third world offices. And neither of them can get conference rooms, so everybody's on Zoom at their desk all day, trying to be heard over their neighbors.
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jansan • today at 5:34 AM
Good thing there are companies outside San Francisco, too. Actually, almost every company is not in San Francisco if you think about it.
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So man companies that are doing RTO are in no way trying to reorg to make teams stay colocated, it's rather puzzling. I know a UK manager with only reports in the different parts of the americas, and there's never more than 2 in the same city, so for all intents and purposes, the teams are just fully remote but stuck badging in. And that's after a reorg this april, where many US managers got laid off.
Along with trends like having line managers be in charge of 20+ direct reports, it leaves people scratching their heads.