I don't think they learned from COVID. The big guys can create their own virtual rooms and video webcasts. Why spend millions for in person when you don't need to.

I'm not pulling any hard data except my ass but remote work has bought my major US city (Atlanta) some serious years that are no doubt going to be squandered from a looming traffic apocalypse; streets were increasingly impassable, choked up nightmares shortly before the pandemic and it's still not quite yet to where it was before. Remote work is to thank, no doubt.

Isn't PR speak great? The spokesperson only stated that it "is not trained" which doesn't give us a lot of information because it could very well have been trained sometime before. The Verge's editor dropped the ball with the misleading headline.

Fuck you pay me if that's the case. Is it in my job description to train new hires, or do I do that to be nice? You want me to be a babysitter too, that's another 100k a year minimum. And even that is only enough that I might think about it

Quietly?

you mean OUR data

I guess some of the laidoff employees will go to Virgin Galactic in Mojave or down the road to Tustin, where the VG facilities are.

I mean, Fintech is a lot of things. Until like last week MasterCard and Visa were technically Fintech companies because they were classified as technology companies

Commentary on the over reliance of “expert at google says” as a means of establishing credibility, especially since this guy doesn’t even work there anymore as you noted. “Experts at Google” in particular have been wrong about a billion things recently and it’s reflected in their patriarchal stance on AI tools, the fact that it’s become a parasitic ad company and the fact that it can’t compete with ChatGPT and ChatGPT-like services because no one who works there anymore is either capable of or allowed to actually innovate unless it involves dicking with the SEO algorithm to continue to toxify the internet with shit spam nonsense content instead of actual information made by people.

Ah, open letter didn't work so billionaires ran to the regulators and paid them off.

Open AIs competition wants Open AI to stop crushing them

what a surprise

EDIT: of course, there are very serious issues to discuss around AI

but these yahoos pissed away fortunes on crypto, Web 3.0, NFTs, and the Meta-Verse and are now blindsided by AI

they want a “pause” so they can catch up

"Work in the office" is just the manager's way of saying they don't understand what you do and have no way to measure your output unless they can constantly look over at your desk and make sure you're not happy.

I've been in IT for 30+ years. Many of those years I was working alone, remoted into routers and switches overseas from my desk, all day long.

When the pandemic hit, and we were told to work from home, I busted my ass to get *more* done. I wanted to show them it could work.

It actually turned out to be easy. I had a 1.75 hour commute each day, so without that I just worked an extra hour a day- not even on purpose most days. It was no skin off my nose and I was still free from work earlier than I would have been. I got a huge bonus, and a promotion.

If I have to go back in the office every single day - my company will just lose 300+ hours of extra work, from a person with decades of experience in my field, each year. The days I go into the office are the least productive days for my organization.

I've been working with HR to do the same over the past eight months. The companies that went through the trouble to figure out remote onboarding, work, and offboarding will be better off than those that didn't. Even if we don't get another pandemic, it provides them more options in hiring.

If you consider that probably more than half of many CEO's jobs consists of micromanaging workers, along with their need for paid minions to stroke their egos & give them the attention that they would never get otherwise..... it starts to make a lot of sense from a certain perspective.

Help!

The cities that we have made dangerous, dirty and undesirable need you workers to come back into the office buildings so that we can tax you to death the way we used to.

The corporate property market needs to be rescued, so we are sponsoring article after article of propaganda explaining why you all need to come back to the office suddenly after 3 years of working fine remotely...

/s

You say that like the ancient ancestors we evolved from had the ability to communicate and collaborate damn near instantaneously, face-to-face, from literally the opposite side of the planet. If they had, your definition of collaborative would probably be different

The only difference for me between working in the office and working from home is that in between tasks in the office, I have to pretend to be busy, when at home I can walk away for 15 minutes and take care of something so I won't have to later. The people I go to with questions aren't even in my office to begin with so why fucking bother.

This is because of the insane choice of blue light. Destroys your night vision so you can't see the darker parts.

Don't you mean "insanely rich people will be able to..."? Because I mean, that's what that would lead to, immediately.

LEDs are by no means monochromatic. And most use phosphors on a blue LED, not multiple LEDs.

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Oh it's the weekly article on this nonsense..

How about they start paying for our commutes. Not only is it dangerous to drive in general, but why should I have to drive 30 mins to the office when I could be doing my job from home? Why do they need us in the office so bad? Use the buildings for something else and charge rent if they are so concerned with their real estate.

Frak this author and frak OP for posting this drivel.

It's implying surpassing coal is significant, it's not really. We need to do more, we will, but still.