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Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency'::The company has revived a number of employee perks, according to Bloomberg, including branded t-shirts, laundry services, and free haircuts.

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[-] Lt_Cdr_Data@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Because the largest portion of employees are stuck in job, which they don't love and for which they won't give more than the minimum required effort. The minimum required effort becomes less, when there is less supervision.

Productiveness also obviously decreases, when you have to communicate with your colleges via zoom, instead of just speaking to them over the table. Seems like none of you had to work yet, but there are few jobs in which you need almost no communication and cooperation with coworkers.

Also most jobs require walking through the building (even if you sit behind a computer most of the day), because pretty much every company has a portion of its business that can't be digitized. Can't go down into the storage hall of a carrier firm to fix workers messing up the labeling, when you are working from home.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Back when I was in the office, we all just messaged each other while sitting next to each other mainly because we are programmers and our productivity suffers the moment someone interrupts out concentration with a question and we can respond to IMs whenever we are at a stopping point. Honestly working from home is exactly the same for me now than what it was when I was in the office, except...

I no longer have to sit in my car in traffic with my stress levels out the wazoo.
I no longer have to dress "professionally" with slacks and a dress shirt.
I no longer have to smell the microwaved fish every Thursday
I no longer have to physically interact with other employees who did not wash their hands in the bathroom
I am no longer getting sick since the same employees who didn't wash their hands, would always also come in to work sick as a dog.
I no longer have to deal with people's armpits smelling like onion because deodorant goes against their religious beliefs.
I still wake up at the same time, but now I have time to exercise in the morning and go on nice walks with my dog.

Yeah, working in an office sucks (at least for me)

[-] Lt_Cdr_Data@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah programmers is the obvious one profession, that might largely be an exception. I don't really know how progress in that profession is tracked or how you integrate newcomers into the team, but I suppose there may not be a huge disadvantage.

Also, your points are all personal ones, which I obviously grant. However, seeing this from an employers side of view, it's a much harder sale.

The "we'd be more productive"-trope is not only not clearly true, but clearly wrong for most professions. Point and case: https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/be147193-0d32-41f5-9112-400f6e374f07.jpeg

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