Let’s not forget that all “return to office” mandates are really just a way for the C-suite to reduce headcount while appearing strong/decisive, avoiding negative press (and therefore spooking investors), and not having to pay severance.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a big fan of Teams. The fact that the software is named after a common organizational unit, and also a feature within the software is named after that same thing, is insane. Also, I haven’t seen such an unnecessary resource hog since the original Microsoft Edge.
Yep. And as another commenter pointed out, the “leaders” pushing these return to office mandates usually have substantial commercial real estate investments.
Gotta keep the commercial real estate market from imploding.
Whole lotta corpo money and financing tied up in that, sure would be a shame if most office space just wasn’t actually needed for most office work.
Also also:
Most managers just personally need the ability to neg employees in-person, even if it is detrimental to actual output, that doesn’t matter, what matters is sating their need to feel powerful and important.
Anyway, Zoom did basically the same thing either earlier this year or last year… yep, Zoom employees, the people who make and sell business oriented virtual collaboration software… all need to RTO.
Oh yeah, I totally forgot the real estate side of things.
I work for a midsize company that divides up their office space rental costs between divisions/departments. Our CEO also owns the commercial property management company, and he also owns the holding company that owns the building.
He’s been fighting me for a while now on my division’s “flex work” policy. Finally he gave up, but my division still pays our “fair share” of rent despite several of my team members moving out of state. Oh well.
Yeah thats called you realizing your CEO is scamming the entire business and running it as a franchise that he somehow is both in charge of and also not fully legally / financially responsible for.
That reminds me of how a huge part of why SEARS went out of business was because they broke each building up into the floor space sections per department that each ran as their own mini psuedo businesses and effectively had to pay footage based rent to that building’s GM…
As opposed to, you know, a business leveraging synergies, fostering teamwork and having a solid central leadership… nah, fuck all that, each SEARS location is now its own marketplace of competing fiefdoms, all the departments hate all the other departments, central command is now just Pontius Pilate washing his hands over all the bloodshed he oversees.
IMO that kind of set up should just be illegal, its fraud with extra steps.
I blame people more than Microsoft. People were either duped or too lazy to say “Microsoft Teams” in full. It’s not too crazy to have services like “Apple Music” because people aren’t allowing Apple to control the word by just saying “Music” casually. People need to go back to saying “Microsoft Teams.” Alas, it will never happen. 😒
I’ve taken to say Fucking Teams™. Our company has Slack and our client uses Fucking Teams™ and it’s a constant meme of audio not working, sharing not working, notifications not working, etc.
I just hate the thing. It’s inferior in every way except that it’s dirt cheap for the client and it’s already there with office suite.
Office suite is another pet peeve of mine when it comes to sharing information. Just make a PDF! Do not share your .docx file. Half of my team don’t even have an office suite installed. So we get 3 or 4 different renditions of the same document depending on where we open it in (Libre, Word regular, Word web, Google docs). Just make a god damn PDF!
Let’s not forget that all “return to office” mandates are really just a way for the C-suite to reduce headcount while appearing strong/decisive, avoiding negative press (and therefore spooking investors), and not having to pay severance.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a big fan of Teams. The fact that the software is named after a common organizational unit, and also a feature within the software is named after that same thing, is insane. Also, I haven’t seen such an unnecessary resource hog since the original Microsoft Edge.
It’s also a justification for the millions of dollars they already spent on office space that isn’t necessary anymore.
Yep. And as another commenter pointed out, the “leaders” pushing these return to office mandates usually have substantial commercial real estate investments.
No conflict of interest there…
Wait till you hear about Word!
Or “Windows App”
what the fuck is with Windows App? it takes gigs and it’s literally just an RDP wrapper.
Also literally no one uses it. Everyone just uses remote desktop which is still in windows anyway.
And “office”.
Also:
Gotta keep the commercial real estate market from imploding.
Whole lotta corpo money and financing tied up in that, sure would be a shame if most office space just wasn’t actually needed for most office work.
Also also:
Most managers just personally need the ability to neg employees in-person, even if it is detrimental to actual output, that doesn’t matter, what matters is sating their need to feel powerful and important.
Anyway, Zoom did basically the same thing either earlier this year or last year… yep, Zoom employees, the people who make and sell business oriented virtual collaboration software… all need to RTO.
Found it: https://fortune.com/2024/07/09/remote-work-outlook-zoom-return-to-office-chief-people-officer/
Oh yeah, I totally forgot the real estate side of things.
I work for a midsize company that divides up their office space rental costs between divisions/departments. Our CEO also owns the commercial property management company, and he also owns the holding company that owns the building.
He’s been fighting me for a while now on my division’s “flex work” policy. Finally he gave up, but my division still pays our “fair share” of rent despite several of my team members moving out of state. Oh well.
Yeah thats called you realizing your CEO is scamming the entire business and running it as a franchise that he somehow is both in charge of and also not fully legally / financially responsible for.
That reminds me of how a huge part of why SEARS went out of business was because they broke each building up into the floor space sections per department that each ran as their own mini psuedo businesses and effectively had to pay footage based rent to that building’s GM…
As opposed to, you know, a business leveraging synergies, fostering teamwork and having a solid central leadership… nah, fuck all that, each SEARS location is now its own marketplace of competing fiefdoms, all the departments hate all the other departments, central command is now just Pontius Pilate washing his hands over all the bloodshed he oversees.
IMO that kind of set up should just be illegal, its fraud with extra steps.
I blame people more than Microsoft. People were either duped or too lazy to say “Microsoft Teams” in full. It’s not too crazy to have services like “Apple Music” because people aren’t allowing Apple to control the word by just saying “Music” casually. People need to go back to saying “Microsoft Teams.” Alas, it will never happen. 😒
“Microsoft” is too many syllables to say every time, “Apple” isn’t.
3 is definitely more than 2.
also “a” is so easy to say it almost doesn’t even count as a syllable 😂
I’ve taken to say Fucking Teams™. Our company has Slack and our client uses Fucking Teams™ and it’s a constant meme of audio not working, sharing not working, notifications not working, etc.
I just hate the thing. It’s inferior in every way except that it’s dirt cheap for the client and it’s already there with office suite.
Office suite is another pet peeve of mine when it comes to sharing information. Just make a PDF! Do not share your .docx file. Half of my team don’t even have an office suite installed. So we get 3 or 4 different renditions of the same document depending on where we open it in (Libre, Word regular, Word web, Google docs). Just make a god damn PDF!
Ms Teams is popular in my experience