Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan was unsparing in his expectations about remote work during a meeting with his new employees.

Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies::In a meeting on Tuesday after completing the $69 billion merger, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told VMWare employees their days of working remotely were over.

    • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
      104·
      10 months ago

      It will. This is just more layoffs disguised as back to office. They’ll lose a bunch of good workers, but they bought VMware for the customer base, not the workers.

      America needs to start fighting for worker rights, it’s just sad how little they have.

      • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        242·
        10 months ago

        They’ll lose a bunch of good workers

        You’re looking at it from the wrong angle: They’re ditching anyone that won’t lick boots

      • namingthingsiseasy@programming.devEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        They’ll lose a bunch of good workers, but they bought VMware for the customer base, not the workers.

        Yeah, vmware has a pretty good stranglehold on companies using on-premises hardware.

        My last job was like this. We had basically 2 sysadmins (now 1) that managed hundreds of servers for about 30+ research scientists. There was no way in hell that people were going to adopt kubernetes (nobody in the entire team had any expertise in containerization, let alone k8s), IaaS was too expensive for their meager budgets, and it’s not like anyone is going to switch virtualization vendors.

        So anyway, the writing is clearly on the wall for them. Pretty soon, you can be sure that the prices are going to get cranked waayyyy up. Current vmware customers will likely find themselves in a pretty unfortunate position soon.

        Oh well. But this is what happens when you depend too much on commercial vendors.

      • Wodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Since they already deal with a fair few of VMware’s customers themselves, I’d say they probably bought VMW to bolster it’s software offerings. They seem to be wanting to get rid of a lot of the staff there, so customers tend to build relationships with their vendors, and burning those bridges ain’t going to help there.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Do workers in other countries have a right to work from home? I’m not trying to argue with you here, I think wfh is a good thing and forcing people back to the office is stupid, I’ve just never heard of anything like that.