[dvfjsdhgfv]

As a side note, the management of this company a while go announced they would cancel WFH. A standard story - they built a huge office nobody wanted to use. So whoever could, tried to find a new job. The rest have to go to the office 3 days a week by default. Which is plain stupid because they could get much more talent if they weren't that inflexible.

[anotherhue]

Break the office monolith up in to micro offices. Do one thing well.

[rezonant]

You win the Internet today. At least for this morning, it's early yet here.

[aetherson]

Can we please not import the WFH/WIO flamewar to unrelated threads?

[smokel]

Perhaps they like working together in a physical space. It's not all about attracting sociopathic talent.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

Who, the management or employees? Because many employees left after this announcement.

Leaving aside your unnecessary name-calling, many tech people indeed do enjoy working together, but not necessarily always in the same physical space.

[paulryanrogers]

What about demanding WFH makes the talent sociopathic?

[smokel]

I was responding, slightly in jest, to the "Which is plain stupid" argument.

[alex_lav]

Both sides of this argument are being dogmatic.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

I don't think it is true, because one side says: "You absolutely must come to the office at least N days a week", and the other side doesn't say "Nobody must come to the office" but "Why don't you let people decide for themselves"?

In other words, it is a discussion between inflexible dogmatism and elasticity.

[smokel]

I think the idea with companies is that management decides. If you don't like that, you can discuss it, go someplace else, or even start your own company. But demanding it, and calling management stupid would be my last resort.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

I wouldn't call i stupid if I didn't have direct experience, several times. Once a board asked my opinion regarding RTO and I told them openly if they do that, the top talent will leave. They answered, "Nah, they won't". Well, it turned out I was right. I'm not saying it was the same in the case of Allegro, maybe the board realized this will happen but decided to proceed anyway, but I have the right not to call it a smart strategy.

[alex_lav]

To suggest that everyone should be allowed to decide their own situation is either ignorant or dogmatic. Pretending everyone that works from home gets as much done as in person is either ignorant or dogmatic. Context is important. There are people working from home that shouldn't be. There are people working from an office that don't need to be. There is no single rule that will make everyone happy, nor should there be.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

> To suggest that everyone should be allowed to decide their own situation is either ignorant or dogmatic.

Yet, this is exactly how the job market works.