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WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" (ody.sh)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This leaked today from inside webmd, the most bullshit corpo HR video I think I've ever seen.

To break down the obvious ones:

Employees who are obviously either drinking wayyy too much company koolaid or who know that their jobs will end if they aren't in this video
An extremely out of touch CEO who wants things back the old way without giving any concrete data proving that it's better beyond conjecture
A company with "internet" in the name who literally doesn't understand the concept of the internet
Threatening and bullying language to force people back in office.
and just a nice touch, the office is of course not near mass transit or anything and requires driving in
Did anyone notice they were all on green screen, kinda proving that there was no need for them to be in person?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If they get to stay home then why can’t I?!?

That’s really it’s about.

The only people that should be in the office are people who literally need to be there.

Like if there are physical servers and they need to be physically configured then sure the tech can go in for that.

If it’s a repair show, then sure the tech has to come in to do the repair.

Otherwise let people stay home.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've hypothesized that they want people in person so that the things they won't say over a network can be said in person.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They do it because they invested in the property and want to make it worth their while. Now they can enforce some stupid productivity policies while you are there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're forgetting the part where they can shift the blame of the company is tanking as the fault of " lazy workers who won't RTO" instead of their terrible management, to convince shareholders not to get rid of them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Or, "we're raking in record profits but we need to make the line go SLIGHTLY more up for the shareholders, so we're telling you to RTO in the hopes that enough of you will leave so we don't have to do layoffs". Layoffs look bad to shareholders, but masses of people quitting? Meh, it happens now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Same with the 'getting better ideas in person' bit. He means he can't take credit for others' work if everything is documented.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh I emphatically agree - I have a fully remote job and not even doubling my salary would make me consider switching to an office one. I was just clumsily trying to point out that a lot of corporate positions don't require all that creativity and collaboration bullshit that clueless executives love to throw around in videos like this one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I have a fully remote job and not even doubling my salary would make me consider switching to an office one.

The funny thing is that if the corporate masters every figured out that they could retain employees who were tempted by higher salaries just by keeping them comfortable, they still wouldn't do it.