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Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking

19 pointsby aarghhabout 1 year ago

8 comments

noodlesUKabout 1 year ago
I’d love to see senior leadership lead by example at some of these companies. If they’re doing badge tracking they could have a live leaderboard of the leadership’s total time in office. I bet it would make interesting viewing.
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kstrauserabout 1 year ago
&gt; Some suspect Dell&#x27;s suddenly stringent office policy is an attempt to force people to quit so that the company can avoid layoffs.<p>The good news: you’ve selected for all the employees willing to put up with meaningless edicts.<p>The bad news: you’re stuck with ‘em because everyone else left.<p>I predict that life with get easier for IT because the remaining people will be really good at following arbitrary rules. Productivity will crater but that’s a problem for next quarter, right?
wackycatabout 1 year ago
Funny how Dell supported remote work, until Michael Dell&#x27;s family investment LLC started more heavily investing in office real estate.
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pluggerabout 1 year ago
&gt; the corporation&#x27;s human capital management software<p>How&#x27;s my fellow human capital stock going today?
francisofasciiabout 1 year ago
&gt; An unnamed person reportedly &quot;familiar with Dell&quot; claimed that those failing to show up to a Dell office frequently enough will be referred to Dell COO Jeff Clarke.<p>It&#x27;s the corporate equivalent of being sent to the vice principle&#x27;s office in high school.
koolbaabout 1 year ago
Don’t most big firms that have return to office mandates do this now? It’s hardly unique to Dell.
devonnullabout 1 year ago
What&#x27;s next? Implanting RFID chips in employees to track them? Maybe I shouldn&#x27;t give Dell&#x27;s management any ideas ...
JSDevOpsabout 1 year ago
Good luck with that. Seemed to work fine during the pandemic. What’s changed. Oh that’s right yeah. Nothing. What’s the issue here? Control. That’s all it is.