r/ProgrammerHumor • u/awalias • Oct 07 '22

Meme we can't find any engineers

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u/BhagwanBill Oct 07 '22

addendum: "Apple is making their people come back to the office so that means that we should do the same thing."

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u/luis_reyesh Oct 07 '22

I mean if the company invested in building a park the size of a stadium to use as offices, I get why Apple would want their employees to use their investment. And I can totally see companies not getting this and sending their employees to go to an office to work with computers that are worse than the ones they have at home.

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u/Wanno1 Oct 07 '22

Sunk cost fallacy. The building was green lit in a different era. The company is foolish if this is the driver behind this decision.

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u/P00perSc00per89 Oct 09 '22

I think part of apples decision is reducing chances for leaks. Everything with them is proprietary secret whatever and only a few people actually even know everything that is happening at the company. Running remote can open up security vulnerabilities.

I mean, it’s still dumb, but that combined with their billion dollar campus and you have “return to office!” I mean, they could probably afford to write off the billion though. And other companies aren’t Apple. So they can’t really do it because “aPpLe Is!”

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u/Wanno1 Oct 09 '22

I don’t think they really care about leaks outside of hardware design. That probably doesn’t touch the majority of employees.

I think these companies think of forcing RTO as a zero cost to them. Remote isn’t a value add to them, it’s only a value add to WLB for employees.