Irving tells investors that they are moving HQ to Houston so that they can collaborate more effectively. Staale tells Campus residents they are losing dedicated desks and offices to improve collaboration. Company continues to spend millions of dollars building private offices for Irving at the Campus. The amount of cognitive dissonance it takes to work here is insane
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It sucks. But sucks most for mgmt going from offices to 1x open space or VP’s+ losing their suite to a small 2x office. It is more egalitarian. And most other companies are doing or have done the same thing to save money on real estate. I am curious to see the unintended consequences. Will people come in earlier to get a corner desk? Or late to sit off somewhere else away from the group? Seems like middle mgmt may be more willing to overlook WFH because they’re going to want to do that more too? Will people exit for this? Is that the point? Or will we just get used to it like all the other offices did?
Heyyy Boomers…
All of you wanted RTO, because that’s where “real men” get the work done. Wish granted.
It is strangely cathartic to watch you people act like attack dogs for the executive class only to get thrown under the bus every single time.
I’m not the smartest person in the room, but at least I know what I am.
OP, the investors are not stupld. They know. They just want their returns fast. They know this is a dead company.
To be completely thorough, Dallas execs need to implement hot desking and prove it helps collaboration before implementing in Houston.
Those spoiled Dallas execs cannot even cope with unassigned parking spaces, much less have to search for an available desk each day. I just cannot wait to arrive to work for a company that values each employee so much that it will abandon owned buildings and take their assigned desk away.
I will try each day to get a desk with a view of one of those empty buildings to truly instill pride in my work.
I guess on nice days I'll just work "Luncheon on the Grass" Monet style. Who cares!!!!
Stop pretending there is one company.
There are two companies:
- Them
- Us
These two live in parallel realities.
- for them everything is awesome
- for us, everything is toxic.
Thus the gaslighting. "Them" are trying to convince "Us" thay they are right and we are wrong.
For us, there's no collaboration, morale is fk'd up, performance reviews are a farce, salary raises are poor, culture is toxic, and the strategy is to get rid of talent in high cost locations and replace them with cheap newbies.
It's a colossal cluster F or sure.