I work for a small ISP/Utility company as network support/technical support. When the covid stay at home orders started my department (6 people) started work from home. We did exclusively wfh for about a year and then split days for a while and now we are on a 2 in 2 out (we work 4 12s per week) and it has been fine. All of us, all 6, have been proven to have better performance working from home in every measurable result that we have. However, because I work for a bunch of good ole' boys that do not understand wfh settings, we keep getting told that working from home is a plus and that it could go away basically any time, even though it was approved to work half our shifts from the house. WFH saves me an hour and a half of driving per day, plus I can literally walk around the other side of a wall to get food/drink and never ever have missed a call or issue. The issue is that a few other departments have abused the policy and we get lumped in with them. I can tell you I would not quit over having to go back to the office, but I sure would raise hell since it saves me so much time and money wasted on a drive to sit in a room for 12 hours that no one knows I am in because they forget we work in the building, lol. Oh, and I work until midnight so not having a 45 min drive home at midnight really has been nice.
"How To Use Company Policies To Encourage Your Employees To Unionize" -A Guide by Mike Ybarra
Typically blizzard. Is anyone shocked at this point.
Are all the people that screamed and cried at me for not believing Preach's little artificial tour absolved Blizzard ready to $%^& off yet? MiKe WoUlD NeVeR dO tHiS.... I will never comprehend the compulsive need to defend these strangers like they're your mothers.
Whole lot of jealous boot chewers in these comments that don't have the capability of WFH. Or are themselves lazy micromanagers.
I've stopped playing WoW at the end of BfA and returned when the Feldrake promotion on Twitch was up. I decided to play very casual, since I don't have that much time to spare anymore. So I started with Shadowlands to see what I've missed. I've set my personal goal to finish everything until Shadowlands (included) and then just enjoy the game.Now, after seeing more and more bull@#$% that Activision does and adding up to all the bad stuff they've already done in previous years, I don't give a crap about anything anymore. Playing any of Activision's games means punishing those people that put their heart and soul in developing a good game and we all know who profits from all of this. It makes me sick to login. I'm just gonna finish the stuff that is almost completed, for personal satisfaction, and then I'm done. Afterwards, all I can say Activision is adios !@#$%achos.
I can speak to the experience of the programmers. It is not reasonable to expect someone to code for more than 5 hours a day. It is incredibly taxing work that drains your brain. We had some 8+ hour days and they would leave me absolutely exhausted when I got home; I would be completely unable to fulfill my familial roles. When we were in office we would just chat till lunch and start working when we came back to prevent the brain-drain from killing us off before the day was out.Working from home lets me spread out the work more and take breaks that actually feel like breaks instead of just treading water. Without it I would have left my job 2 years ago. Blizzard is 100% going to be losing talent over these decisions esp. with how many companies are staying remote. The board is greedy and management is a bunch of fools to think this is going to go well.
Alright, this guy in charge is a #$%^&*.
Blizzard: The first name in abusing both their employees and customers alike.
Quit. Problem solved.