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Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

"Remote work is not compatible with a high ambition level plus high speed,” Pei said in the email, telling employees who are worried about flexibility that “this is a company for grown ups.”

Sounds like he actually means it's a company for exploitable young people and socopathic assholes. Grown-ups have other responsibilities and don't want work to commandeer their whole lives.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"This company is for grown ups. Now sit over there where I can check on you constantly and do what I tell you like a child that can't be trusted alone."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The actual sentence, according to a Verge website comment, was: "This is a company for grown ups, so if you need to be out of office to deal with some issues, we trust you to make the right decision." If true, this doesn't reflect well on Verge journalism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I need to be out of the physical office all the time to deal with my actual life. How about that? WFH 4eva

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't care about Verge. I care about the person who cons others into toiling underpaid so that they can Lambo and talk shit to magazines.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Guarantee this is a ploy to chase off the 'less committed' employees (read: less desperate), while not having to announce mass layoffs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The real problem is that Nothing brings.... nothing to the table. Oh look, another startup making another Android phone in a sea of companies making Android phones, with yet another skin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

What do you mean? Their phone has lights on the back.