Hacker News with Generative AI: Work Culture

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
411 points by Peroni 2 days ago | 441 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 2 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 3 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 10 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 16 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 17 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 24 days ago | 8 comments
Indian Programmers Work the Longest Hours (reddit.com)
India, Programming, Work Culture
3 points by thisislife2 29 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 36 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 37 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 38 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 41 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Those who still work for Tesla, why are you still with that company? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Those who still work for Tesla, why are you still with that company?
Tesla, Employment, Work Culture, Tech Industry
27 points by franze 42 days ago | 17 comments
Ask HN: Advice for tolerating the "corporate" aspect of software jobs? (ycombinator.com)
Software Engineering, Work Culture, Career Advice
30 points by superarch 45 days ago | 18 comments
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Business, Work Culture, Economics
622 points by kappi 54 days ago | 490 comments
In memo to Google's AI team, Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is 'sweet spot' (yahoo.com)
In an internal memo to employees who work on Gemini, Sergey Brin recommended being in the office at least every weekday and said 60 hours is the "sweet spot" for productivity, according to the New York Times.
Google, Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, Work Culture
13 points by KoftaBob 56 days ago | 7 comments
Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks (arstechnica.com)
Sergey Brin co-founded Google in the 1990s along with Larry Page, but both stepped away from the day to day at Google in 2019. However, the AI boom tempted Brin to return to the office, and he thinks everyone should follow his example. In a new internal memo, Brin has advised employees to be in the office every weekday so Google can win the AI race.
Artificial Intelligence, Google, Work Culture, Leadership
19 points by malfist 56 days ago | 9 comments
Return to office: CEOs are ignoring the math (salon.com)
Last October, Dan quit his job at Amazon. He’d been looking to leave for a while; he was bored and unsatisfied. But then one morning in mid-September, a memo from the very top tipped him over the metaphorical edge.
Work Culture, Business, Remote Work
11 points by zuhayeer 58 days ago | 4 comments
Ask HN: If you work for Elon Musk, what keeps you motivated? (ycombinator.com)
Many brilliant people work for Musk at companies like Tesla and SpaceX. Given the recent controversies surrounding him, I'm genuinely curious—how do they stay motivated to do their best work?
Motivation, Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, Work Culture
29 points by hedayet 58 days ago | 54 comments
The Hollow Core of Elon Musk's Productivity Dogma (newyorker.com)
On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk posted on X that “all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.”
Elon Musk, Productivity, Management, Work Culture
7 points by rbanffy 59 days ago | 0 comments
Navigating a Broken Dev Culture (ycombinator.com)
My Current Job is a Mess—But I Won’t Let It Define Me
Work Culture, Professional Development, Personal Growth
60 points by lightserver 62 days ago | 46 comments
Software engineers would rather quit than return to the office [video] (youtube.com)
Software Engineering, Remote Work, Work Culture
45 points by saltysalt 66 days ago | 38 comments
Small Tech (2020) (scattered-thoughts.net)
I frequently see debates about whether it's better to be a cog at a giant semi-monopoly, or to take investment money in the hopes of one day growing to be head cog at a giant semi-monopoly.
Technology, Startups, Work Culture
156 points by codeAligned 67 days ago | 16 comments
Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze (theregister.com)
Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?
Open Source, Software Development, Community, Burnout, Work Culture
5 points by rntn 69 days ago | 0 comments
Bosses are fed up with remote work (yahoo.com)
The golden age of remote work seems to be ending. The Trump administration is seeking to end remote work for federal employees, with Trump saying, “Nobody’s going to work from home, they’re going to be going out, they’re gonna play tennis, they’re gonna play golf.  They’re gonna do a lot of things—they’re not working.”
Remote Work, Politics, Work Culture
12 points by iugtmkbdfil834 71 days ago | 20 comments
Ask HN: Finding interesting work if disenchanted with "big tech" & "VC-backed" (ycombinator.com)
For a long time i opted out of big tech and worked at startups because i liked being on small collaborative teams building cool impactful things.
Career Advice, Startups, Technology, Work Culture
50 points by AbstractH24 76 days ago | 42 comments
Return-to-office policies are leading to increased brain drain in the U.S. (venturebeat.com)
Return-to-office mandates are emerging as one of the most contentious of the post-pandemic work trends that U.S. employees have faced.
Work Culture, Labor Market, United States, Technology
46 points by this_weekend 80 days ago | 13 comments
Ask vs. Guess Culture (jeanhsu.substack.com)
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
Communication, Work Culture, Relationships
15 points by paulpauper 81 days ago | 0 comments
Dell is making everyone return to office, too (theverge.com)
Dell is the latest tech company to announce it’s ending its hybrid and remote work policy.
Work Culture, Tech Industry, Remote Work, Hybrid Work
11 points by stalfosknight 85 days ago | 2 comments
A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work (mertbulan.com)
It happened on the afternoon of May 4th. A message from a colleague—who has since become a good friend—popped up on my screen, urging me to check my emails. When I opened my inbox, there it was: an email from the COO. The email announced an impending company-wide layoff and mentioned that, within a few minutes, I’d receive another email letting me know whether I was impacted. A short while later, the second email arrived.
Layoffs, Work Culture, Personal Experience, Technology Industry
1041 points by mertbio 89 days ago | 960 comments