Technology

I'm sure Carl Pei will always be in office. /s

Ngl, that's a genius headline

So Carl Pei sounds like a real douchebag

Unnecessary RTO mandates need to be outlawed

Every other company:

"Hey, we're hiring..."

“this is a company for grown ups.”

That's too bad. I was thinking of getting their phone when I needed a new one, I guess I'll just add them to my mental list of companies to avoid.

It's shame they already turn into the dark side

The way this usually works out is you loose all the good employees and you’re left with the dregs who were unable to find another remote position in time.

nice, yet another company to avoid as either employee or customer

I read the title to mean that nobody NEEDS to come into the office lol

I have no intention of buying anything but a fairphone, at least until right-to-repair comes to GrapheneOS pixels

"Remote work is not compatible with a high ambition level plus high speed,” Pei said in the email, telling employees who are worried about flexibility that “this is a company for grown ups.”

Sounds like he actually means it's a company for exploitable young people and socopathic assholes. Grown-ups have other responsibilities and don't want work to commandeer their whole lives.

"Carl" is not compatible with the human race.

We need a human recycling center.

Well, nothing should require employees to be in the office five days a week

They make phones. I had to look this up since I had never heard of this company.

I would find it weird to be referred to as Nothing staff, or a Nothing employee.

Guess I won't be buying the CMF Phone after all.

“This is a company for grown-ups”.

Says man who makes phones that sparkle and a fidget spinner earbud case.

"tHiS iS a ComPaNy fOr GrOwN uPs"

This just means they're a struggling company who needs to cut headcount and want to do it without paying severance

We had a tremendous office culture in the 1950s. Since then, we have had numerous -- very numerous -- improvements and innovations in the telecom space, in the office assistant space (think personal digital assistant, or rather all the ubiquitous tools that do what those used to do), and other general improvements which empower significantly enhanced productivity.

To say people still need to be in the office is to say there have been no improvements. The fact is, we can be at home and be more productive than in an office. Anyone who tells you otherwise has ulterior motives.

Company is too invested in real estate? Sounds like an issue that the C-suite caused and that they alone should fix. Middle management needs to feel useful? Maybe they should find a career that actually has a need for their micromanagement instead of forcing other people into an obsolete box to appear useful. Show me a company against remote work, and I'll show you a company with outdated goals, more outdated methods, and leadership which should be replaced en masse with people from 2024.

“Remote work is not compatible with a high ambition level plus high speed,” Pei said in the email, telling employees who are worried about flexibility that “this is a company for grown ups.”

“I know this is a controversial decision that may not be a fit for everyone, and there are definitely companies out there that thrive in remote or hybrid setups,” he added. “But that’s not right for our type of business, and won’t help us fully realize our potential as a company.”

Very reminiscent of Musk's message to Twitter employees a couple of years ago.

"Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade."

And his own attitudes towards work-from-home:

Musk imposed a strict return-to-the-office policy for Tesla in June 2022, warning them they would lose their jobs if they refused to do so. Employees would need to spend a minimum of 40 hours at the office a week; anything less would be “phoning it in.”

“Get off the goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bullshit,” Musk said, “because they’re asking everyone else to not work from home while they do.”

“If you want to work at Tesla, you want to work at SpaceX, you want to work at Twitter — you got to come into the office every day,” he said.

Goddamn. It took out my boy Rock Biter's whole crew, it made the Child-like Empress cry, now this? Disgusting behavior.

Ever since TV remote was invented, people don't even lift their asses off the couch and walk over to the TV to change the channel. Unless a company adapts to changing tech landscape, they can be many things, but not a company for grown-ups.

Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office ~~five~~ ANY days a week

FTFY

I already hate their name so much and now this makes me hate them even more. Fuck them.