“I want to hold them captive all day long,” Ellison said during a financial presentation on Thursday. “I don’t want them leaving the building … I don’t want them walking down the road for a cup of coffee. We kind of figured out a few years ago how much that cost.”

One, fuck you with a burning stick.

Two, people who are off the clock can go wherever the fuck they want.

Three, you'd better be in that fucking office yourself at least forty hours a week.

Four, put the stick out with a jar of honey and then fuck your own peehole with it.

The guy is an out of touch jerk. Sometimes the hilight of your day ia that mental break grabbing a coffee at a cafe and enjoying fresh air. And i get way more work done with WFH, because people need an actual reason to interrupt your work flow

Absolutely a mask off "let them eat cake" level quote.

History has shown overworked, burned-out, desperate-to-hold-the-job people make the BEST employees!

Go hardcore or go home! No, wait, not home...

In any office job I've worked, I would have been able to accomplish jack shit for the second half of the day without a break with some food and good coffee.

Also, breaks in which you can do whatever you want are enforced by law around here, and I'd be surprised if it isn't the same in Australia.

That man is both a dick, and a fool.

Have a friend who got his PhD in Australia, in neuroscience. He's got enormous personal debt, his department is chonically underfunded, he has two grad students to his name, and he's got to spend every semester writing these long winded grant proposals to maintain any kind of budget.

Then six months ago, a recruiter from Fudan University reaches out to him. Flies him out to Shanghai, wines him and dines him, shows him around the campus, offers him a $1.5M housing allowance plus $500k salary with another $6M in budget and three other PhDs on his team.

He's moving there in March.

Damn, the amount of people here that love how the owner class manipulates and sucks them dry is shocking.

Banning wfh should be illegal, period. Of course everyone is different and has different needs but keeping people in the building has multiple benefits for his bottom line, not the employees:

• no room to talk to other companies’ employees and compare
• no room to think about company policy without being influenced
• potential to be overheard talking potential union business

While it is great for highly sought after software engineers to be pampered like this, the majority of people arent this and the reason companies do this only for the highly paid is because they are actually valued and might be able to hurt the company if they are unhappy. Opposed to the many people who are less qualified.

This comment section is a harsh example of privileged people being completely out of touch with the reality of their fellow humans.

I‘d be ashamed.

“So another reason for them to come and enjoy work: drop the little tykes off next door. We’ve got doctors on board and nurses, we’re going to feed them, but mum and dad will be working in our office.”

The fact that you needed to explicitly SAY that is a little disturbing. What was your original plan? To store the kids in a fridge?

And then some minion had to tell you, "sir, children need food water and air to stay alive."

Taking a quick break and going down to the gas station down the road to get coffee and maybe a pastry was one of the only things that made my last job bearable.

Its great to see TBH. His employees will read this when they google and share it around the office if they are not already talking about it. They will be demoralised by it, productivity will drop. The high valued talent will move in a heartbeat and he will be left with those that cant get a better deal elsewhere.

But all that wont matter as its a long term problem.

Thats a problem for the next CEO.

Notice the problem here? Accountability!

So first they force people back into the office because CBD businesses are suffering.

Then they want to ban people from going for a coffee?

Make up your fucking minds!

Shit like this is why I became a contractor. Sick of control freaks with no idea what the job entails telling everyone what to do.

At least he doesn't chain the employees to their desks

Yet

This is all about building your personal life around work, this guy knows that current WFH initiatives are giving people better flexibility for work to fit around their personal lives.

The things he's offering to basically hold his employees captive for the day, are quite decent. I just don't see them being attractive to people long term.

I want to hold them captive all day long.

...another reason for them to come and enjoy work: drop the little tykes off next door. We’ve got doctors on board and nurses, we’re going to feed them, but mum and dad will be working in our office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk

To be honest this isn't a massive departure from the various other non remuneration incentives offered by companies wanting you to be there in person. Silicon Valley has offered this forever. Gyms, cafes, holiday programs for kids etc.

People have different motivators. I don't mind being in the office frequently. I work my hours then clock off. I find it easier to switch off from work when I leave work.

Some people will value it. If you're not one of those people, don't worry, you don't have to work there. It's pretty simple.

Because he's gonna open little free cafes in all his offices right?... right guys??...