Activision QA Workers Protest New Office Mandate, Calling It a 'Soft Layoff' - IGN
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Today, the ABK Workers Alliance published a statement opposing a recent return-to-office mandate that is impacting hundreds of Activision quality assurance (QA) workers.
  • toiletobserverEnglish
    80•7 months ago

    My team’s return to office was so successful that we all had the opportunity to share covid with each other and nearby teams. Management’s complete lack of understanding of the work they are tasked to oversee makes arm waving butts in chairs policies seem like a viable way to not seem incompetent.

    • mesamuneEnglish
      45•7 months ago

      My old place of employment told everyone that they had to go back to office earlier this year. 1 month later, about 10 people out of a 15-ish department found remote jobs. They just shuttered the local office after a couple more months. My new place is much better :).

      Most of us are experienced software developers or software adjacent. There is a lot of companies looking.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
        31•7 months ago

        This is going to be the pattern at all these places doing RTO: The ones who are capable of getting WFH jobs will get them, and they’ll be left with their least capable folks.

        • mesamuneEnglish
          15•7 months ago

          Yep! I was lucky in a way, I had a friend of mine who recently got a job that needed help/was hiring. There were a couple people when they let go of everyone that is still looking for work.

          WFH jobs are a huuuuge benefit.

    • @vexikron@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21•7 months ago

      Its real estate. They have huge, expensive offices they /know/ are barely necessary, and they absokutely cannot afford the loss they would incur if they had to sell (because all that is debt financed and based on bullshit) AND uf one large tech or office firm did that, soon there would be pressure on all of them to do that.

      That could crash the commercial real estate market and lead to the real estate market in general going down.

      While this would benefit the vast majority of workers, it would financially harm those with lots of vested stocks and other investments.

      Oh and of course working from home makes middle management /obviously/ more or less useless. And basically all managers (there are some exceptions) and all VPs (near 0 exceptions) and above are sociopaths who crave feeling important and superior to others, and they will do anything to continue that lifestyle.

      Why do you think the largest union actions in the US in maybe 50 years are either not covered by the media, or demonized in the few instances they are?

  • @echo64@lemmy.world
    English
    10•7 months ago

    If there is one thing Microsoft does not want or need, it’s QA. They have their own people.

    Shareholders get richer from this buyout, and the workers get fired.