• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    At my last company we were allowed to work remotely full-time if we wanted, so I did. Then we got acquired by a west coast tech giant and six months later everybody who had been working remotely was laid off. A few months later they closed down the offices of my original company and laid off everybody who wasn’t willing to relocate from DC to California. And then a few months after that they laid off everybody from my original company who had relocated to California. And all of this only happened because my original company was a very minor competitor in the tech giant’s space.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      That sucks, what a awful experience.

      I do remember that happening to one of my prior jobs and leaving when I saw the writing on the wall. So it may also be a bit of my own drive to only work for companies that has that culture.

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      7 months ago

      The logical outcome should be that all workers in that company start looking for another work and leave as fast as they can.