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Even Zoom is making its staff return to the office | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

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Alt headline: Zoom admits its technology is shit.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

(sorry that turned into a massive rant but it's something I needed to get off my chest)

No, that's all fine and reasonable, it's just my own personal frustration. The company I have been working for has decided to force people back now, apropos of nothing (and after previously attempting such an idea but halting it due to it's massive unpopularity). We had a completely flex work setup (work from home or in office however often you feel like per week), and it's just...incomprehensible.

We also immediately lost someone that was going to be working with us and filling an important position, and I can't imagine becoming less flexible is appealing (although our disconnected executives are trying to tout it as such lmao)

I didn't mean to come off as completely unsympathetic to people for whom it's a more desirable option, just mourning the loss of flexibility that had actually gotten me to be ok with my job

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

For sure, I didn't think you were being unsympathetic or anything like that. I kinda just used your post as a jumping off point to collect my general thoughts about the "stay-at-home vs back-to-office" debate and how we're all stuck arguing between two bad options. It wasn't my intent to argue or debate, I just think the problems with remote-work don't get brought up enough and it's really hard to talk about this in a nuanced way.

That really sucks that your company is making you return to the office like so many others right now. Workers should absolutely have the choice whenever possible.