Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.
You know, I really thought that the pandemic might have been the beginning of a paradigm shift. It was a terrible time, but I think a good majority of people were beginning to realize just how insane our world was and we all slowed down for a second and realized that we don’t need to be in the office 5 days a week. Welp, I guess I shouldn’t have been so damn naive. Employers decided that they couldn’t micromanage as efficiently as they wanted and those millions of dollars of real estate weren’t going to pay for themselves. Now it’s amazing how much our “cOmPaNy CuLtUrE” needs improvement or how collaboration just “iSnT aS gOoD” as face to face. Fuck you all, it’s money and control, plain and simple.
As someone who has been remote for 8+ years, it’s extra disconcerting that now some companies are more in the office than they were even before covid. It’s totally about control as you said. I’m at least hoping that it eventually returns to where it was.
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Some employees had remote work before COVID, after COVID they implemented mandatory 40 to 60% for everyone no matter their previous agreement… Except the departments where they have a hard time hiring… But only temporarily…
I think (at least in tech) we are seeing a brain drain where companies with strong RTO mandates can neither retain nor attract talent. Remote-first companies should be at a big advantage. Time will tell if it matters.
What I find very disconcerting is that some companies don’t own real state, they rent it. A commercial space in NY size of a garage costs like 70K per month! So these companies had the golden opportunity to pocket this money, to make their employees happy, help the environment, improve the traffic in the city and get talent from anywhere in the country, but said “nah thanks, I prefer to spend my time micromanaging my employees”.
What is wrong with these people? Our generation needs to create better, smarter companies and make these dinosaurs irrelevant.
It has been the beginning of a paradigm shift. This is just to lay people off without paying severance.