Hacker News with Generative AI: Workplace Culture

A Viral Google Doc Experiment During Google Layoffs (le-brun.eu)
January 2023 was a chaotic month inside Google. Without warning, the company announced 12,000 layoffs—roughly 6% of its global workforce. Panic set in as employees woke up to find their access suddenly revoked. There were stories of people discovering their fate while on parental leave, others mid-project, or even while on-call. Overnight, the atmosphere shifted from business-as-usual to fear and uncertainty.

Google, Layoffs, Workplace Culture, Social Media, Business

7 points by laurentlb 5 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: What is it with this hate and disdain for interns/junior engineers? (ycombinator.com)
Some examples of this that I have seen so often:<p>No openings for interns or junior engineers, yet the companies and people I talk with, the senior engineers get sick often, lack drive and take longer PTO and their work isn't really that adequate.<p>Blaming interns or junior engineers for simple mistakes, which the senior which also should have seen.<p>Not training interns or junior engineers to become senior and be given more responsibility, I'm assuming we are all aware of the bus

Software Engineering, Workplace Culture, Hiring Practices, Internships

23 points by colesantiago 40 days ago | 43 comments

Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why? (nytimes.com)
Amazon’s C.E.O., Andy Jassy, made waves last month when he demanded that all employees return to the office five days a week.

Hybrid Work, Workplace Culture, Business, Leadership, Technology

43 points by ctoth 40 days ago | 73 comments

Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan (entrepreneur.com)
Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan, according to company leaders.

Google, Workplace Culture, Remote Work

281 points by christhecaribou 49 days ago | 290 comments

Remote Work Was to Reshape the Political and Social Landscape. What Happened? (joanwestenberg.com)
The remote work experiment proved we don’t need to be in an office to succeed—so why are we still being dragged back to our desks?

Remote Work, Workplace Culture, Social Change, Politics

6 points by cratermoon 52 days ago | 0 comments

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with RTO, 3-in-4 want to jump ship (theregister.com)
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy last week sent a memo to staff informing them everyone is now expected in the office five days a week from the start of next year, and a poll of staff suggests this hasn't gone down well.

Amazon, Remote Work, Workplace Culture

66 points by taubek 56 days ago | 66 comments

Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll (arstechnica.com)
An overwhelming majority of Amazon employees are “dissatisfied” with Amazon killing remote work and requiring them to be in the office five days a week next year.

Remote Work, Amazon, Workplace Culture, Employee Satisfaction

6 points by dangle1 56 days ago | 0 comments

Conscious unbossing: why Gen Z are refusing to become managers (theguardian.com)
Research has found more than half of British young professionals do not want to take on a middle-management position. And who can blame them?

Management, Generation Z, Workplace Culture, Research, Career

5 points by n1b0m 57 days ago | 1 comments

The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity (the-sentinel-intelligence.com)
Every year, CEOs demand more employees return to the office. Mainstream news outlets run stories calling remote workers lazy.

Remote Work, Productivity, Workplace Culture

275 points by kruuuder 59 days ago | 289 comments

Ask HN: How do you feel about the 'Do you have a best friend at work' question? (ycombinator.com)
Gallop has one of the best-known employee engagement surveys, known as the Q12. It asks 12 questions, and one of them is, "Do you have a best friend at work?"

Workplace Culture, Employee Engagement, Surveys, Human Resources

16 points by jawns 60 days ago | 25 comments

Concord had a dev culture of toxic positivity that halted any negative feedback (twitter.com)

Software Development, Workplace Culture, Feedback, Toxicity

93 points by xnhbx 61 days ago | 78 comments

Amazon says workers need to be in the office. Most of Silicon Valley disagrees (ft.com)
Amazon says workers need to be in the office. Most of Silicon Valley disagrees.

Remote Work, Workplace Culture, Silicon Valley, Amazon

6 points by belter 62 days ago | 5 comments

Responding to work emails after hours contributes to burnout, hostility (theconversation.com)
Responding to work emails after hours contributes to burnout, hostility

Work-Life Balance, Burnout, Workplace Culture, Stress, Communication

18 points by rntn 70 days ago | 4 comments

Cultures of Disruption Are Destroying Modern Workplaces (psychologytoday.com)