Is TK at Citrix a guide to post closing at VMW?

Was talking to a couple of buddies at Citrix/Tibco yesterday, over MNF. Seems that Tom K has put the hammer the down on all remote work.

Basically:
If you want to advance, better be in the office.
If you went remote during covid better come back in.
If you moved during covid (even with manager sign off) that is going to be re-looked at.
If you were hired fully remote, those positions and requirements are being reexamined in full.

Basically remote work is over for the vast majority AND in a Business Unit meeting the VP actually stated: that TK's RTO plan isn't due to some specific set of data or numbers on productivity. It's his personal belief that working from the office makes you more successful. Who did Tom Krause learn that from? Who has he sat next to while running a very successful (money making /stock-wise) business? Hock Tan.

Heck the ELT over there is now even mandating that positions hired as fully remote, be reexamined and moved to the office.

So, for a company (Citrix) that preaches remote work/work from anywhere across ALL their products (unlike us, we just have a Business Unit called EUC), it's basically over at that company. And seeing how it was Tom K and Hock sitting there saying they were reconsidering it for our company meeting, now 3-4 months later Tom K is at Citrix instituting these policies, showing he doesn't care for remote work at all.

Learn from what they do. Not what they say they do.

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If some worker is watching YouTube videos at home, the worker was also seeing them at the office. WFH is great for VMware and Broadcom will have other problems to resolve before the WFH question comes up.

The reason for ending WFH was Broadcom did what all companies did during Covid and took an unbiased look at productivity with a large part of the company working from home. Within 2 weeks, Broadcom concluded efficiency dropped, significantly. If you actually believe this wasn’t true, there is no hope for you, you just don’t have the capacity to understand how companies actually operate. You are basically saying companies got a huge boost in productivity and were shown a path to save potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in a reduction in office space and IT support but decided they would prefer to take a hit in productivity and spend a ton on office space and support. Stop for a second and think for five seconds and realize you are stupid for believing this.

Everyone that works remote thinks they are more efficient. You aren’t. Monitoring email and IMs while doing laundry, watching YouTube videos, cooking, etc. is not productive.

This is not encouraging. I get the feeling that Tom is the dude against WFH. Hock seems less crazy now. Thank god he left Broadcom to go ruin another company.

I’m sure if you’re savvy you could have them write in helicopter transport into your new contract in lieu of RSUs, then quit a few months in. People would think you are a legend, and something to aspire to! :P

Long ago I worked at a place called VMware and was looking to work remotely. At that time my manager told me that advancement would likely be tough if not impossible beyond a certain point.

They can lay me off. I don’t care. I was hired as remote. I live hundreds of miles from an office. I will not go back to work in the office. Commuting was such a waste of time and all of my work can be done from home. I don’t have any interaction with people in the office.

Capt Kirk: Return to the ship, Mr. Spock!
Spock: I'm not going back, Jim.

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