Hacker News with Generative AI: Work Culture

Observation: HN turns into infomercials around when Californians start working (ycombinator.com)
Observation: HN turns into infomercials around when Californians start working
Hacker News, California, Work Culture, Social Commentary
15 points by lysace 1 day ago | 14 comments
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home (theregister.com)
Years after the pandemic reshaped working practices across the world, many staff are still resisting corporate efforts to get them to return to the office preferring instead to quit in favor of a more flexible employer.
Remote Work, Work Culture, Labor Market, Workplace Trends, COVID-19
62 points by rntn 3 days ago | 79 comments
Document Your Progress at Work (shivamrana.me)
How can you ensure that your contributions are also recognized?
Productivity, Career Advice, Work Culture
57 points by tminima 4 days ago | 3 comments
JP Morgan Chase requires all workers to return to office five days a week (theguardian.com)
JPMorgan Chase is summoning all staff back to the office, becoming the latest corporate giant to call time on era of remote and hybrid working sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic.
JPMorgan Chase, Remote Work, Corporate Policy, Work Culture, Pandemic
8 points by philk10 7 days ago | 0 comments
The Tsunami of Burnout Few See (blogspot.com)
That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets the problems run to failure.
Burnout, Work Culture, Personal Development, Mental Health
575 points by dxs 9 days ago | 328 comments
JPMorgan Planning to Bring Staff Back to Office Five Days a Week (bloomberg.com)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is preparing to tell all its employees to return to the office five days a week, ending a hybrid-work option for thousands of staff and returning to the attendance policy that was in place before the pandemic.
Business, Work Culture, Office Work, Finance
12 points by madihaa 10 days ago | 4 comments
Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024) (msn.com)
Remote Work, Work Culture, Dell, Business, Technology
196 points by this_weekend 13 days ago | 178 comments
Glue Work Considered Harmful (seangoedecke.com)
Software Development, Philosophy, Work Culture
64 points by polyphilz 16 days ago | 48 comments
Complain and Propose (2014) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
"Jean-Louis wants to see you in his office." My boss Eagle Burns' bald head disappeared from the door to my office. Something about his tone suggested that righteous indignation, which I had been nursing for several days, was not the right attitude to pack for my trip. I started getting scared.
Work Culture, Short Stories, Management
90 points by zdw 22 days ago | 31 comments
Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (pluralistic.net)
Operating a business is risky: you can't ever be sure how many customers you'll have, or what they'll show up looking for. If you guess wrong, you'll either have too few workers to serve the crowd, or you'll pay workers to stand around and wait for customers. This is true even when your "business" is a "hospital."
Healthcare, Technology, Work Culture
101 points by healsdata 30 days ago | 26 comments
Amazon is showing us how not to do return-to-office mandates (arstechnica.com)
Amazon announced in September that it will require workers to be in the office five days a week starting in January.
Amazon, Return-to-Office, Work Culture, Corporate News, Remote Work
8 points by pseudolus 30 days ago | 1 comments
AT&T follows Amazon in demanding employees spend 5 days a week in office (fortune.com)
AT&T is dumping hybrid work as it follows Amazon in demanding employees spend 5 days a week in office
Work Culture, Remote Work, Business, Technology, Corporate News
51 points by belter 31 days ago | 90 comments
Companies issuing RTO mandates "lose their best talent": Study (arstechnica.com)
Remote Work, Work Culture, Talent Acquisition, Business
37 points by AdmiralAsshat 31 days ago | 7 comments
Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs (theregister.com)
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has once again argued for Indian workers to spend 70 hours a week in paid employment.
Work Culture, India, Technology, Business
6 points by LinuxBender 32 days ago | 0 comments
Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work (theregister.com)
Working for a startup is supposed to end with getting rich overnight, but not like this
Software Bugs, Security, Startups, Work Culture
135 points by amalinovic 33 days ago | 66 comments
The Libertarian Coder (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
I'm an independent worker. Solitary by nature. Always have been. In school, I abhorred team projects; there was nothing worse than when the teacher would say, "Now, let's form into small groups for discussion." In pre-calculus, I tuned out my teacher completely and just did my homework in class—the textbook was all I needed when I had questions.
Software Development, Productivity, Work Culture, Lifestyle
6 points by aard 35 days ago | 0 comments
The "Quiet Quitting" Myth Is Toxic for Tech (blackentropy.com)
Let’s get one thing straight: the idea that engineers are making $300k/year while doing next to nothing is either a massive exaggeration or the product of mismanagement at scale.
Technology, Work Culture, Mismanagement
19 points by devslovecoffee 40 days ago | 25 comments
65% of employees bypass cybersecurity measures, new study finds (forbes.com)
As businesses become increasingly reliant on digital tools and cloud-based workflows, a pressing issue is emerging. Employees are bypassing security measures to meet productivity goals, inadvertently creating significant cybersecurity risks.
Cybersecurity, Business, Technology, Work Culture
66 points by botanicals6 43 days ago | 94 comments
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters (seangoedecke.com)
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often?
Engineering, Culture, Conflict, Work Culture
232 points by rbanffy 44 days ago | 118 comments
Modern Work Fucking Sucks (joanwestenberg.com)
It’s Monday morning. The first thing you see (yes, before you see your kids, your partner, even your coffee) is a Slack notification.
Work Culture, Technology, Opinion
9 points by ThatGeoGuy 46 days ago | 2 comments
Modern Work Fucking Sucks (joanwestenberg.com)
It’s Monday morning. The first thing you see (yes, before you see your kids, your partner, even your coffee) is a Slack notification.
Modern Work, Technology, Work Culture, Social Commentary
12 points by cratermoon 47 days ago | 3 comments
The 'Return to Office' Lies (avas.space)
I have to rant about the home office situation in general, but also specifically at my place of employment and similar places.
Work Culture, Remote Work, Office Culture
363 points by speckx 56 days ago | 498 comments
Is China Really a Nation of Slackers? (economist.com)
China is famous, even infamous, for hard graft. Prodigious amounts of toil and elbow grease helped the country become the workshop of the world. More than 175m migrant workers labour in cities far from home, often leaving their children in the care of relatives. And the sacrifices are not confined to the poor. Even some of China’s more sophisticated firms are known for their “996” office culture, encouraging unfortunate employees to work from 9am to 9pm, six days a week.
China, Economics, Work Culture, Labor, Society
7 points by jnord 57 days ago | 3 comments
Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution (theregister.com)
Despite all the top-down buzz around enterprise AI, most job seekers are unconvinced that it is making their work lives easier.
Artificial Intelligence, Employment, Work Culture
4 points by rntn 58 days ago | 1 comments
Did my coding lead to colleague's death? (ycombinator.com)
Throwaway account because I don’t want this tied to me.<p>About eight years ago, I worked at a mid-sized tech company with a senior colleague—let’s call him “Dave.” He was in his early 60s, had decades of experience, and preferred “boring tech” and object-oriented programming. I was more into modern, cloud-native solutions and functional programming, which led to frequent disagreements.
Software Development, Ethics, Work Culture
21 points by cowdingx 62 days ago | 29 comments
Too Much Therapy at Work (world.hey.com)
Many years ago, Jason and I hired a COO at 37signals, but ended up letting them go after just a year (many reasons, another story).
Business, Leadership, Work Culture
12 points by Tomte 67 days ago | 2 comments
Don't Act Differently After You Give Notice (staysaasy.com)
Sometimes when people give notice that they are quitting they start acting differently:
Work Culture, Professionalism
6 points by thisismytest 68 days ago | 2 comments
Job leaving rituals in the WFH era (shkspr.mobi)
One Friday last year, I posted some farewell messages in Slack. Removed myself from a bunch of Trello cards. Had a quick video call with the team. And then logged out of my laptop. I walked out of my home office and sat in my garden with a beer.
Remote Work, Work Culture, Farewell Rituals
20 points by edent 72 days ago | 0 comments
Google CEO forbids political talk after firing 28 over Israeli contract protest (yahoo.com)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has weighed in on the debate over the relative values of political expression and workplace coexistence by ordering employees to leave their political opinions at home.
Google, Politics, Work Culture, Censorship, Technology
27 points by basilgohar 73 days ago | 12 comments
Why sprints are taking the joy out of building software (zaidesanton.substack.com)
To sprint is to run as fast as you can over a short distance. And what happens after you finish a sprint? You need to catch your breath and rest (maybe even vomit a little if you are out of shape).
Software Development, Agile Methodologies, Work Culture
54 points by hckrofalltrades 77 days ago | 23 comments