Out of the entire job market, 30% can be WFH. That’s an estimate because the actual number is lower because not many people actually want WFH as a standard. Before the pandemic, WFH made up of less than 10% of the workforce. During COVID, it shot up to 60%, but the economy still suffered because (despite what the peanut gallery says) most WFH jobs are limited in number and in necessity.
Even now the WFH crowd is 30-35% and shrinking, because Zoom Fatigue and WFH-Burnout is a thing.
Remote work isn’t going anywhere. Companies should either already be adapting their working environments or preparing to adapt, as remote working demands will likely only increase from here on out.
Hybrid schedules, not complete WFH remote working.
And I think that will depend on the industry. Suffice to say, there are plenty of permanent WFH jobs nowadays.
And maybe more importantly, Blizzard doesn’t want even hybrid work from home, hence the bigger backlash they are receiving.
Only if it requires physical labor
Exactly this, 100%!
We can speculate, but it won’t get us anywhere. Expecting a company to just give you WFH because you’re experienced and talented at your job us not how you get WFH status. If your company tells you no, then you go to work or you find other employment, which is minimal because most companies aren’t strictly WFH.
All this bleeding-heart ‘think of the starving software engineer’ is tiresome and pointless.
The company proved WFH was not only doable but more successful than some of their past most previous works. Forcing RTO is like the company saying hey the foundation that we fixed during covid to support the whole structure, let’s rip part of it out and see if the whole house stays or comes crashing down.
Newsflash: Removing a corner of your foundation (replaced for whatever the cause) WILL collapse your structure.
I think it is, or more precisely if your company is not giving you what you think you deserve you are free to leave and find new employment. And suffice to say enough seem to be leaving to cause Blizzard to start crisis planning.
Hey, shouldn’t we let people decide that for themselves? If they leave they probably assume they can get a better offer. And again, they don’t need “strictly WFH”, as I mention Blizzard wants 100% Work from office and I think people can at least find hybrid work accomodations.
Hell, just checking the soon to be owners of Blizzard, Microsoft is offering both 100% on site/off site and hybrid model. Microsoft is saying “there is no one size fits all”, so yeah, in the long run Blizzard itself will probably have to adapt.
No, it didn’t. Blizzard even admitted as much as sales were lower than expected.
sales are lower cause SL and lawsuits alienated a large portion of the player base, you can’t correlate it any other way when you play SL vs DF and see how much better DF is than SL
Could it be because both BFA and Shadowlands were terrible? And in shadowlands case that is partially due to the upheaval of a global pandemic forcing everyone to suddenly adapt.
That’s the whole point. Let them find employment elsewhere if they can’t handle coming to a phsyical building.
The company has done some bad things. However, I don’t think asking employees to go to their job is unreasonable….
Then you can’t make it your argument that WFH made Dragon Flight ‘better’, when things point to the contrary.
And it looks like that is exactly what they are doing. The problem is this going to affect us players because it will likely mean either 1) those that remain will be overworked to get the same result they plan(leading to burn out and maybe further resignations) or 2) just less content.
What does? The overall development, story, gameplay, execution are ALL significantly better in DF than SL
DF being make entirely WFH is proof of concept it works. Sales are proof they still have to get marketing to draw those lost players back.
That’s nonsense. Blizzard just hired entire development studios to supplement World of Warcraft and their other IP’s.
It’s just people making an absolute monster out of a shadow at this point.
And they are losing developers. Unfortunately we don’t know how many but I suspect enough. At least, if this dude is to be believed enough to cause Blizzard to try and start crisis planning.
The problem runs deeper than RTO. Bobby and co. Need to go. Hopefully Microsoft is taking notes. If they keep him around that’ll be extremely disappointing.