It’s EA… how are they confused?
It’s called quiet layoffs. EA gets to reduce how many employees they have without spooking the market.
This. RTO is about forced attrition. More experienced, higher paid folks are more willing to leave over rto and you keep the scared lower level ones you pay less.
Its disgusting and its Amazon, MSFT, and everyone elses move to quiet fire and reduce industry salaries.
They are mad they have to pay employees.
I wish people would all collectively agree that employers should have to pay for commute time to their offices. I would like to think this would quickly bolster WFH.
And it counts toward 40 hours
Goodluck. Not to be defeatest, but that’s so so far down the list of issues workers need to address before the turn of the next century if we’re to have any chance of returning our lives to ourselves.
Our company of 5000+ US employees just ended a hybrid model and now requires full return to work. I sit near HR. Here are some things I’ve heard:
- Asked in a public forum what metrics were involved in revoking work from home, VP said “Metrics? None. Next question.” All other questions received some kind of diplomatic answer but not that one.
- A couple of HR employees vocally shit on the complaint emails they’ve been tasked with responding to. They’re the bootlickin-est people I’ve ever heard in a professional setting. 3+ times I’ve heard “If it bothers you that much then quit, simple. The company’s not for you then.”
- A global company, our intranet shows the head honcho taking pride in work life flexibility and touts the same fukkin hybrid model. US workers were told it’s a “participating locations only” situation.
- VP said they didn’t anticipate how beloved working from home was, and said (despite no communication otherwise) it was their plan all along to end it, and that they made a mistake by not doing it sooner because it gave us the false impression it was permanent.
In contrast, we employ some union and some non union workers all over the country. As much HR shit talk as I’ve heard over 5 years, I and they still have to abide by WRITTEN PROCEDURES whose express intent is not running astray of the Collective Bargaining Agreements. I hear these HR people on phone calls about something union related and I get to hear “Jump? How high?” and other cowtowing phrases, knowing they’re fuming inside but can’t do anything about it because we’re beholden to those CBAs.
Regularly, I witness stark evidence that union workers are treated better than their counterparts. The CBAs have teeth and the company knows it.
As an organizational psychologist (the people HR people pretend to be when they talk about anything besides paperwork) these stories hurt me to my core. I absolutely despise how much HR lives up to its name of treating people like they are staplers in a supply closet. The way most companies are run is so shitty and short sited it’s unreal.
How the hell are you confused when EA does something shitty?
2 time winner of worst company in America does something shitty?
But… They said back then that they took these awards seriously and they wanted to see it change
They surely have improved on this ? Right ?
Folks should unionize. The people mandating these “return to office” schemes can’t do shit unless labor cooperates.
As always, it’s just a sneaky way to get people to quit.
All the data and studies on the topic point to the fact that working from home had a positive economic impact. It leads to happier, more motivated workers, which increases productivity.
Say it with me, now.
Tax breaks.
If a company has the infrastructure to support WFH but chooses to RTO it is due to tax breaks the company gets by filling seats in the office.
That’s just one of several possible reasons. None of them are better tho.
You know what’s more effective at saving money than tax breaks? Not having a huge office you don’t need :)
just sayin’
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