Hacker News with Generative AI: Work Culture

Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates (theregister.com)
Despite high-profile calls for employees to get their butts back behind their desks in a traditional workplace setting, more people - at least in the UK - are ignoring return-to-office mandates, a study has found.
Remote Work, Work Culture, UK, Technology
22 points by rntn 31 days ago | 21 comments
Why Japan's Gen Z is 'quiet quitting' work (dw.com)
It is a far cry from their parents' generation, but 20-something Japanese are happy to sacrifice a career and better pay for an improved work-life balance.
Generational Differences, Work Culture, Japan, Millennials, Work-Life Balance
19 points by rustoo 33 days ago | 2 comments
Survival is my weekly sprint goal (miserablyemployed.com)
"Do we have a roadmap, or are we just vibing?"
Work Culture, Humor, Productivity
12 points by ramijames 33 days ago | 0 comments
The copilot delusion (deplet.ing)
A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a brain. Lord, not even close.
Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Work Culture
314 points by isaiahwp 36 days ago | 202 comments
AI Slop PRs are burning me and my team out hard (reddit.com)
AI Slop PR's are burning me and my team out hard, anyone else experiencing this?
Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Work Culture, Burnout
7 points by xemane 38 days ago | 1 comments
A Stealth Alternative to Layoffs (businessinsider.com)
Are return-to-office mandates actually a stealth tactic to get employees to quit? It's a suspicion I've heard from a lot of people since RTO efforts started in earnest in 2022.
Work Culture, Layoffs, Remote Work
7 points by rntn 44 days ago | 0 comments
On thinkers and doers (2022) (strangeloopcanon.com)
Why we might need something like tenure for many more people, to cultivate more thinkers in a doer's world
Academia, Work Culture, Thinking, Innovation
55 points by andrewrn 48 days ago | 44 comments
A Typical Workday at a Japanese Hardware Tool Store [video] (youtube.com)
Japan, Hardware Stores, Work Culture, Videos
155 points by Erikun 48 days ago | 75 comments
How to Spread Panic in Slack (miserablyemployed.com)
Let’s be honest, work is boring as hell and stirring shit up is an excellent way to make the clock run faster. Here are some innocent but terrifying ways to give your colleagues and management a little jolt of excitement on an otherwise monotonous day.
Work Culture, Workplace Humor, Productivity, Boredom, Slack
11 points by derpasaur 49 days ago | 3 comments
Ask HN: My company is forcing 1 week sprints. What should I do? (ycombinator.com)
The leadership of the company I’m at is forcing all teams to do 1 week sprints instead of 2 because they believe that they can get more out of the teams and get better visibility into progress.
Agile Development, Software Development, Project Management, Work Culture
14 points by mcsolid 50 days ago | 44 comments
Uber's Shower Gate Scandal (teamblind.com)
As a globally distributed company, remote working and RTO has been a very contentious topic at Uber.
Uber, Remote Work, Controversies, Work Culture
6 points by yhosun 51 days ago | 2 comments
The Enshittification of Tech Jobs (medium.com)
Tech workers are a weird choice for “princes of labor,” but for decades they’ve enjoyed unparalleled labor power, expressed in high wages, lavish stock grants, and whimsical campuses with free laundry and dry-cleaning, gourmet cafeterias, and kombucha on tap:
Technology, Labor, Work Culture, Economics
9 points by getdoneist 53 days ago | 0 comments
For AI Startups, a 7-Day Work Week Isn't Enough (forbes.com)
Silicon Valley has always glorified hustle culture. Some startups, like AI education company Arrowster, recruitment unicorn Mercor and Y Combinator-backed Corgi, are taking it to another level with 6 and 7 day work weeks.
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Work Culture, Silicon Valley
19 points by iancmceachern 54 days ago | 25 comments
For AI Startups, a 7-Day Work Week Isn't Enough (forbes.com)
Silicon Valley has always glorified hustle culture. Some startups, like AI education company Arrowster, recruitment unicorn Mercor and Y Combinator-backed Corgi, are taking it to another level with 6 and 7 day work weeks.
AI Startups, Work Culture, Silicon Valley
5 points by e2e4 55 days ago | 3 comments
Uber raises in-office requirement to 3 days, claws back remote workers (cnbc.com)
Remote Work, Work Culture, Technology, Business
55 points by pseudolus 59 days ago | 93 comments
Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories? (ycombinator.com)
I keep reading about many companies moving to a model where they stop recruiting and replace human engineers with AI. Is anyone part of such a company that wants to share some firsthand experience? What changed significantly in your workflow? On top of the "clasic" GitHub Copilot and/or Cursor, any other tools/agents/automated workflows that are used to compensate for additional human effort? Are you 10x more efficient? Is the effort similar as before, but distributed in other areas?
Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Work Culture, Technology, Automation
48 points by ludovicianul 59 days ago | 89 comments
The Enshittification of Tech Jobs (pluralistic.net)
Tech workers are a weird choice for "princes of labor," but for decades they've enjoyed unparalleled labor power, expressed in high wages, lavish stock grants, and whimsical campuses with free laundry and dry-cleaning, gourmet cafeterias, and kombucha on tap:
Tech, Labor, Employment, Work Culture, Economy
31 points by 3np 60 days ago | 10 comments
Tech Workers Are Just Like the Rest of Us: Miserable at Work (msn.com)
Not so long ago, working in tech meant job security, extravagant perks and a bring-your-whole-self-to-the-office ethos rare in other industries.
Tech Industry, Work Culture, Job Satisfaction
5 points by jnord 61 days ago | 3 comments
On loyalty to your employer (2018) (medium.com)
I’ve just returned to London having spent the past two weeks back home in Cork where I spent an awful lot of time with my father, a man who set up his first ever email account less than a year ago and a man who has spent the past 30 years working for the same employer.
Work Culture, Loyalty, Personal Anecdotes
425 points by Peroni 64 days ago | 448 comments
Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week or lose their jobs (cnbc.com)
Remote Work, Google, Employment, Work Culture
9 points by rntn 65 days ago | 0 comments
Burn Your Title (eatonphil.com)
Burn your title. Burn your job description. I mean, keep your boss happy for sure. Keep your teammates happy by supporting them and building them up and communicating well.
Career Advice, Work Culture, Communication
7 points by ushakov 66 days ago | 1 comments
'A big part of my job is sacking people': Life in HR (news.sky.com)
Caroline Wood sits down with the Money blog to reveal what life is really like as an HR boss, including the most common complaints she has to deal with, and what you need to be wary of on a staff night out.
Human Resources, Work Culture, Business, Management
6 points by rustoo 73 days ago | 0 comments
No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons (danielsada.tech)
I know we haven’t paid you for 30 days, but would you be willing to float another month?
Early Career, Employment, Finance, Work Culture
136 points by dshacker 79 days ago | 104 comments
AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink (leaddev.com)
Under pressure to embrace AI, developers are growing frustrated by misguided mandates and are left to clean up any collateral damage inflicted on their codebase.
AI, Software Development, Programming, Work Culture
82 points by bluefirebrand 79 days ago | 96 comments
A demanding work culture could be undermining efforts to raise birth rates (psypost.org)
China’s falling birth rate has become a major national concern, and a new study published in Biodemography and Social Biology suggests that the country’s demanding work culture may be partly to blame.
Demographics, Work Culture, China, Social Science, Parenting
8 points by ivewonyoung 87 days ago | 8 comments
Indian Programmers Work the Longest Hours (reddit.com)
India, Programming, Work Culture
3 points by thisislife2 92 days ago | 0 comments
The Burnout Machine (unionize.fyi)
Let’s get real for a minute: the tech industry loves to sell us on the myth of the "dream job."
Tech Industry, Work Culture, Burnout
853 points by flxfxp 99 days ago | 662 comments
Forcing people back to the office was a choice. I'm making mine (werd.io)
Remote Work, Work Culture, Opinion
8 points by benwerd 100 days ago | 2 comments
The Document Culture of Amazon (2021) (justingarrison.com)
In my time at Amazon, I’ve observed the way we use documents is incredibly unique.
Amazon, Company Culture, Work Culture, Documentation
23 points by Tomte 100 days ago | 15 comments
Synchronous Work, Asynchronous Work (newardassociates.com)
Over the last two years, we've seen a dramatic policy debate playing out on the feeds of LinkedIn: "WFH (Work From Home) vs RTO (Return to Office)".
Work Culture, Remote Work, Office Culture
4 points by zdw 104 days ago | 0 comments