When Broadcom takes over most of the control. My friend working at Broadcom told me, Broadcom employees are 5 days a week IN office. As per him, we might be very very lucky if we get 2 days work from home a week.
(Apple, Google etc have already started in Hybrid model)
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For those who fear that VMW is spying on employees via CarbonBlack and Workspace ONE Intelligence, you clearly don’t have much experience with these products!
If anyone is seriously worried, go to docs.vmware.com and read the technical docs and instruction manuals to learn about these products’ actual capabilities. (You need to read the product manuals that show how the products actually work and what they really do, not the marketing websites and presos.) If the only “spy tools” IT has are CB and WS1 Intelligence, well, umm.. employees have nothing to worry about. 🤣
''We have CarbonBlack spyware installed peeps''
Absolute BS that's not what the product does
Thanks Anonymous Worker from Office of the Broadcom CEO
The data is quite clear, overall people working from home are far less productive than working in an office.
No.... the data is "not clear" that workers are less productive when working from home. There has been study after study after study that shows that people are in fact MORE productive when working from home than at the office in person. Do a search. Plenty of studies, including a 16,000 person study from Stanford that shows a 13% increase overall, which is significant. Just because Apple, Google and others are going back to the office doesn't mean that is proof that they are in turn making the correct decisions. These choices are being made by execs who probably think that if company XYZ is going back to the office then they too should do the same thing. Its group think.
No matter. I decided immediately that I wanted absolutely nothing to do with BC's corporate culture and left. A lot of other VMW people are making that exact same decision.
The data is quite clear, overall people working from home are far less productive than working in an office. This is why Broadcom requires it. Sure there are some people that are effective working from home but they are the exception not the rule. You can see all the big tech companies by just looking at what they are doing, Apple - pushing to return to the office, Google - pushing to return to the office, Meta - pushing to return to the office. You mean to tell me these companies said “wow, everyone is doing super great working from home, lets bring them back in the office so they are less effective”. Working from home is great for the employee, keep an eye on email, mow the grass, do laundry, cook, take a hike, just keep an eye on that email.
Can confirm: As far as my team was concerned, once WFH started our workload went UP. As in way way up. All of us were online far longer than we were at the office. Online earlier in the morning and later in the day. Something I don't see discussed is just how exhausting commuting really is. Prior to the pandemic the commute to and from work in the Bay Area had gotten to be so bad that the freeways were useless. 15-20MPH crawls with sometimes 10-15 minutes just waiting in line at an exit. Super tense. Get home and you are totally beat and worn out. That in turn leads to a loss in productivity.
But WFH? Sure, we might work longer hours but at the end of the day its also far less exhausting to have to get up and battle the commute. BC's insistence on WFH sounds more like a knee-jerk reaction that bares little semblance to actual reality.
I heard we will get ankle bracelets also!
"what data does management have to prove that remote workers are not pulling their weight and need to be in office?"
You are thinking like an engineer. Think like a manager. "How can I best control my people? How can I show on a one-page report that my people are working hard?"
It's not about what is best. It's about what real productivity is. It's about appearances, not facts.
The annual checkin counters for the last three years are much higher than 2018/2019.
Government should have a special Green Tax on companies that requiring employees to be onsite. Every employee heading into the office is contributing to pollution. While in the office, heat and AC are on high and rarely comfortable if someone sitting below vents. I used to be at an old office spot where AC can't be turned down that I need a small portable heater to heat myself up for sitting in my cube whole day. Office lady will come and asked that to be turned down. There should be Green Tax per head count in the office.
Productivity from home definitely is like 20-30% when wfh. No need to take bath, dress up , spend time at gas station filling gas and no time wasting commuting. In return we give more hours back to company. And save in medical insurance to company as well by exercising, jogging , hiking, biking, running. No ?
Just curious, what data does management have to prove that remote workers are not pulling their weight and need to be in office? Everything I have read during the pandemic is of productivity levels INCREASING as opposed to decreasing. This makes sense as you don’t have the normal 1 to 2 hour commutes and you don’t normally take a 1 hour lunch. As a result, would productivity decrease once we are in office relative to our remote productivity?
Love the downvotes on comments here people are so clueless.
@1eom+1iTeRKSL Field people are a different story. Octane isn’t going to close every VMW office, if there’s a critical mass of people somewhere in a vital BU they will keep it open or find cheaper real estate nearby. That’s what the did with CA and Symantec..
We have CarbonBlack spyware installed peeps. Wake up. We also have this thing called WorkspaceOne Intelligence which collects all intelligence!! Enjoy!
It would be impossible to have offices close enough to everyone who is a field worker. Unless they completely axe sales, pso, tam, or anyone who goes to see a customer regularly. We have customers that are large nowhere close to offices and I doubt Hock would want to pay T&E.
If you look at Broadcom lay off sites they mention that some of them work remote and some work in the office. Which suprise is how vmware was pre pandemic.
In Tanzu, the open recs say in an office 25-50% once covid is over...
I love badging in, can’t wait! Does a whistle blow when it is time to leave?
@1xzx+1iTeRKSL when will you get your head out of the sand...and all the people who upvoted this reply.
There will be NO WORK FROM HOME UNLESS YOU ARE VERY SPECIAL AND WORK IN AN ESPECIALLY STICKY BU...
Octane reports on badge-ins EVERY QUARTER IN HIS ALL HANDS CALL TO THE COMPANY.
JFC... get real and stop being delusional.
Hoc is already analyzing badge-in data for Palo Alto post-office reopening. A large contingent of this WFH users will be on the list. He will fix the issue without having to change the policy. Only permanent home office workers will survive the first pass. Even there, I'm sure there are not background apps measuring how much time you are spending on the work laptop, how many keystrokes you press, what applications you use, etc. to find out if you are really working. Anyone below his threshold will be on the list too. Have you noticed the number of forced software updates lately? :) A storm is coming.
Broadcom’s general philosophy is remote workers don’t work which is why they require people to be in the office 5 days a week. There are a few exceptions but each has to be approved by Hock and each year there is pushback from him on any remote employee. All of that said, all the software companies Broadcom has bought have a lot of people working remote still but there is a strong effort to end it. I suspect VMWare employees will be similar so people will still work remote but have pressure put on them to come in the office. Also, Broadcom monitors badge ins every day by employee so your manager will be getting a call every quarter employee badge ins falls below a threshold.
For delivery folks I doubt anything will change. Customers may ask some consultants to come in and work with customers. Maybe program and project managers will do more in person kickoffs, but thats probably it.
What happens to remote workers? Will they have to relocate to site location or be let go? It must be in the contract that you signed when you first got the remote job?
Are you new? We’ve been talking about this for months since the acquisition was announced.
We don't know when the acquisition is completing and we don't know if when WFH policy will change. No one really does.