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XanKreigor t1_jeeitm1 wrote

Reply to comment by PandasPD in Meta stops offering remote work in new job postings as Mark Zuckerberg pushes the benefits of coming to the office by Ben_aid

But they are making the choice to have employees. No one is forcing them to do so either. We do, however, force companies to pay employees for time worked in all cases. The commute should be a part of that.

If employers don't want to pay employees for time worked, employees should refuse to work there.

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PandasPD t1_jeeic4y wrote

Reply to comment by XanKreigor in Meta stops offering remote work in new job postings as Mark Zuckerberg pushes the benefits of coming to the office by Ben_aid

But you are making a choice to work for them — no one if forcing you to do so. Don’t like the conditions of employment, don’t work there. No different than a company having a bad 401k contribution or PTO policy. Also, Meta isn’t worried about a few people bitching about gas money. Go check out Blind to see the vast line of people that would donate a kidney to get in there. Now, smaller regional companies, sure this could be a nice benefit.

I’m full time remote and would not want to go back anytime soon — but I also don’t apply to jobs that are listed as being in person or hybrid. Just the same as I don’t apply to jobs that are in other countries, other professions, etc.

Now, companies changing WFH policy sucks — ie hired full time remote and being told now they have to come in to the office — but, job conditions change all the time and as an at-will employee, it’s my choice whether those changes are worth leaving the company. Companies suck, make your choices accordingly and stop hoping they’ll do the ‘right’ thing you think they should do.

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heisenburgscousin t1_jeeia4e wrote

Reply to comment by Derfal-Cadern in Meta stops offering remote work in new job postings as Mark Zuckerberg pushes the benefits of coming to the office by Ben_aid

For sure but there are waaaay less jobs hiring as remote now, and the ones that are have tons of applicants.

People wouldn’t have to worry about this if the company that hired them as “100% remote, Work From Anywhere!”, didn’t just decide to completely change their work agreement. The only reason companies are doing this is the market tanking and everyone getting laid off

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Glissssy t1_jeeeu8x wrote

Reply to Virgin Orbit fails to secure funding, will cease operations and lay off nearly entire workforce by getBusyChild

Virgin very obviously backed the wrong horse many years (decades?, cant remember) ago and seem to have solely survived on ignorant journalists constantly hyping them for no obvious reason.

I doubt any smart money has been spent on them in some time and apparently the whole charade could only be exposed by a series of very high profile failures.

They've never had a product that made any sense, assume VG will go down the pan too since they're once again trying to sell something that doesn't even deliver the most basic requirement to a very tiny market.

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