Employees leaving Blizzard due to RTO

Nah man, those 25 years of service means the the owner MIGHT mention you by name when they lay you off to give themselves another 6.4m bonus

Way worth it

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Every company is different. And people can weigh the pros and cons of changing.

What seems to be the issue here, is that you are attributing a very very narrow scope of things to everyone. With my company, I do not lose any matching % at any point.

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Bouncing a company every 2-3 years makes your resume be questioned cause it tells your future employer “this dude doesn’t stick around long term”

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I worked for the DoN for 37 years and while the salary was below-average for comparable contractor work, the benefits and job-security were top-notch. There’s very few jobs these days that have a “good” 401k with profit-sharing and full health benefits, paid vacation/sick leave (that carry-over if unused to a limit), and job security. The motivation in the young engineers I worked with that jumped to other companies was always salary… they didn’t seem to care about benefits. It seems plausible that benefits at most companies are not compelling enough to make you stay if management is poor or the work environment is bad and your own skills are easily marketable for a higher salary.

In essence, those focused on high salary lose nothing by jumping ship because benefits, stalled 401K and perks from years-of-service are negligible (if even present at their current job).

Edit: I see from some of your subsequent posts that you seem to be applying your specific work environment/benefits to everyone else. That’s a bad assumption… it’s great for you if your company is offering what you need to keep you happy/productive, but unless you’ve got experience with other employers (directly or through data-backed discussion with others or data-backed research), it’s pretty naïve to assume your situation applies to everyone.

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I lost nothing.

Same benefits.

If I was offered a 5k bonus, that might have changed my decision to leave my previous job.

But that wasn’t offered, so moot point.

Why are you carrying water for your corporate masters so much? And making baseless assumptions about these workers?

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I’ve been in plenty of companies with a revolving door of idiot managers who don’t know anything, and can’t do anything, but leapfrog from signing bonus to signing bonus leaving a trail of wreckage in their wake.

It’s especially bad in the marketing sector of the gaming industry. The reason you see so many developers doing the marketing for games these days is because the marketing people don’t know anything about the games they’re supposedly meant to promote.

So instead they rely on the developers (who, honestly, have way better things to be doing), or just outsource it to streamers by giving away free goodies to watch them (see: twitch drops).

If the marketing people could actually do their jobs themselves, none of that would be needed. But since they’ve been where they are less than a year, and will be jumping ship shortly before they learn anything… here they are.

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That’s how the tech job market works :person_shrugging:

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Who doesn’t require this?

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Cause quitting because you had to drive 15-30 minutes in the office is a ridiculous way to quit

Go ahead and try to find another WFH job that well will drain throughout the decade when CEOs need their money profits to stop leaking

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I swear. Boomers who think WFH is bad probably also think we should still be using typewriters

Smh

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15-30 minutes? Sounds like a dream.

Where do you live, Boise?

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There’s definitely benefits to working from home, but I don’t think I can get behind the dialogue that it should be a 100% replacement for the standard. There are some things that just HAVE to be done in person. People need to leave the house sometimes, it’s too easy for folks to coop themselves up and face mental decline as a result of it.

Of course you can also make the argument that people don’t do well in a mental headspace having to commute and be present in a office space, which isn’t something I’m in favor of

Fully supportive of like 2 days office, 3 days wfh, despite that still making it difficult to justify the high costs of maintaining a leased space. I think a balance between the two would be fair and the best solution

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Again baseless assumptions… you have no idea apparently that a decent percentage of folks, especially around Irvine, commute for over an hour in dangerous traffic.

Do some research and think outside your own bubble. Your situation does not universally apply to everyone else.

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It’s almost like there’s more too it than just the commute and you’re being purposely obtuse in this entire thread.

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i’m not sure you understand that talented and experienced employees have leverage of their own. we’re not all interchangeable cogs in a giant widget machine.

don’t want to hire me? great! hope one of the several hundred other people in the country who can do my job is also looking for work at this exact moment.

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There are tons of places looking for people that still do remote work.

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I think these employees are doing the right thing for themselves. If they are unsatisfied with the conditions and requirements of their employer, they should quit. If the people who are quitting are engineers/programmers they will find a new job easily.

I think teleworking is great. I believe there are many benefits to it for both employers and employees. However, at the end of the day, if your employer is asking you to return to the office, you can either follow that directive or quit.

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I’m willing to bet people leaving blizzard doesn’t matter at all because the microsoft deal will have people waiting to fill these jobs.

Company ran before you and they’ll run when you’re long gone

Anyone thinking their the Titans greatest gift to said company are so full of it

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I dunno about anyone else here. But I find most people who use “gigachad” unironically are either questionable, or a child.

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