Because they just need to sit around and make sure people are at their desk, rather than, you know, doing their fu--ing job for once, which should be to divide the work and assign tasks among the team. Here's a typical manager "show me work! Mmmm ok. Now go work more, come back with more work!" Man what a life.
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Nah, there are more adult children than there ever were that need an authoritative presence. Intels problem is their managers are non-technical and have no idea what they are managing. They also need to normalize firing poor performers instead of hanging on to them until layoff season.
RTO makes manager role more relevant. lol
If you are exempt then you are even more in their pocket. You must be available during regular shift hours and any additional hours required to meet expectations. Exempt doesn't mean 40 hours... it means 40+.
Going back to punching a clock for exempts would be a disaster for Intel. You are contracted to do the work, even if it takes 200 hours a week. Intel doesn’t “own” you for any of that period though. I think management would prefer slavery though.
With police walking around, will everyone behave better?
@am This isn't Taco Bell. As it's been pointed out below, Intel didn't hire all salaried employees with "specified time frames".
Go work somewhere else then. If we pay you then we own your a-s at the specified time frame.
Probably for good reason. Either: they themselves are miserable to be around or their families are.
Regardless, people who want to RTO should be quarantined together. You wanna share your filth with the world? Have it with others who feel the same way.
@a8 and if managers feel the need to monitor employees in a 1984 big brother style, they are bad managers. People who enjoy RTO either hate their home, their families, or both
It looks to me that if your job, say, is to write a piece of code, then at the end either you wrote said piece of code, or not. If you spend 10 hours in the office but do not deliver the piece of code, then you spent 10 hours in the office. If only we had managers that assign you which piece of code to write together with a deadline. But no, because? Who knows. If you employ people that need constant surveillance to deliver, you hired the wrong people
@a1 toes are never cute, sandals and open toed shoes should be outlawed...
@a4 like you stated: "Times sure have changed. " This is what Intel and a lot of its employees need to realize. It isn't the 90s and Intel is no longer a monopoly.
I was hired at Intel decades ago, and their entire business philosophy was different back then. They were clear from date of hire (even had a video about it in their new employee orientation) that they hired you to do a job, not punch a clock. The video went into detail about how you could work from a playground, your bathtub, where ever, as long as you were accomplishing your goals. As a salaried employee, you were hired for your expertise and ability to achieve goals, not for being in the building a specific number of hours. That might mean you work 70 hours a week sometimes, 20 hours a week others. But they acknowledged your professionalism and left you free to set your own hours. Times sure have changed.