Lol years of service mean jack. The largest raises come from getting a new job. Your current employer will always try to pay you as little as possible, while new hires for the same position could end up making more than you depending on how competitive the job market is.
Always be looking for newer and better opportunities and if your current company isn’t willing to match or do better it’s time to move on to a company that values your labor more.
Never simp for corporate
Productivity has objectively improved in many areas because of WFH. And Dragonflight (an expansion developed entirely remotely) is such a vast improvement over BFA and SL (two expansions developed almost exclusively in the office) that this should speak volumes.
I agree you should look for a better job with more pay. But you need to stay for some time in order for new employer not to think you are gonna bail in the next year. 4-5 years at one job is a good amount of time.
These people leaving Blizz, are they limiting their search to WFH companies only? That may severely limit their options.
The vast majority of tech jobs in this day and are are fully remote. Employers requiring RTO are severely limiting their pool of potential applicants, not the other way around.
its possible but not entirely true. its puts more strain on communication and creates its own set of problems they now have to fix. Wfh wasn’t a permeant solution to being with.
I haven’t been keeping up on this stuff but, didn’t they get sued? Did the purchasing go through?
You should probably identify which jobs are fully remote cause by saying “tech jobs” that makes your statement totally false. Many MANY tech jobs can’t even be done without being in the office.
I know if I look for a new job, remote is a requirement now.
After the nightmare that is moving across states to a new house, I’m staying where I am until I die.
RTO is generally middle managers needing to justify their existence. The company I work for realized they could save a fortune while increasing productivity by getting rid of the corporate buildings and moving to an almost entire remote workforce.
It also solves the entire office temperature issue.
Yeah but then I can’t inject my cream donuts with mustard to teach Salzman from accounting to not sneak my food from the fridge, or to keep the office temperature 73 degrees.
All fun and games till the big wigs learn that you can use mouse software to “pretend” you’re active
Every company should enforce camera on while working if you like to work at home, see how quick people will suddenly stop praise WFH
People want WFH cause it’s easier to pretend you’re working and it ruins others who actually are trying to do their jobs
Yeah but now no one can take the food from your fridge and Will didn’t make the whole place reek by microwaving salmon
True. But you gotta admit. It was fun encasing all of Dwight’s things in Jello.
Unfortunately that’s just not the reality of the business world, these days. Plenty of no-talent hacks are jumping from job to job after a year or less, because they can talk a really good game and HR departments have zero clue what skills are actually needed in the firms they work for.
There are a lot of really, really, REALLY dumb people in high-end positions in the corporate world.
Or, every company should do what’s in the best interest of the company and it’s employees. If there is no dip in productivity there is no reason to force something like this. It’s a free market and you trying to dictate how every company should go about WFH is absurd.
Spoken like someone trying to rationalize having to work in a office.
And let’s be honest, that’s more of a reflection of you then people in general.
Not a reflection when you pointing out that people would rather quit than return to the office
I never WFH even when the shutdowns were happening, cause my work was considered essential and had a reason why I had to go in to work
Those months were the best days of my life working as no one was on the roads and I was able to get my work done without anyone bothering me
No meetings bull crap, no one to talk to me cause I was mostly by myself in my own area finishing things for project managers and emailing them whatever they want
I’ll do it again if they ever do another shutdown
It’s actually the CEO of my company that’s pushed it. But we do real science and make real products in the real world, so I somewhat get it.
The thing is, though, is that even really a company at that point, and not just some weird electronic cabal?
And they can and have been doing that because they are easily able to find a WFH job in today’s job market.
Blizzard would rather lose talent than allow them to WFH, and that’s something that Blizzard is going to need to come to terms with while the rest of the world moves on.