> Is it worth the price of mass daily commuting on the wealth and mental health of employees, and on the planet?
That's very context specific. In many cities, employees commuting by public transport to a central location, rather than all individually heating/cooling their houses, is a plus for the planet and wealth of employees. For many people (including me) it's also good for mental health.
> the cuts expected this month will be the first to affect tech departments, including engineers, which has surprised employees
Huh? The earlier layoffs definitely affected tech. I know of a bunch of former colleagues in engineering roles that were laid off in the first round. Sure, recruiting was affected more, which makes sense when hiring was reduced to almost zero, but this is very much not the first time engineers will be included in layoffs.
Back in a previous life in a chemical R&D lab the company did layoffs and claimed to the media that it was all to marketing and administration. In the lab we lost about 50% of our researchers but weren't allowed to talk to anyone about it. I'm guessing companies really want to make it look like layoffs aren't impacting the people responsible for the product, and feed questionable data to that effect.
The misleading implication is that now suddenly Meta is in panic mode and making unprecedentedly drastic cuts, as opposed to just ratcheting its previous layoff policies.
I was a tour guide in Oxford while I was doing my PhD there. This was always my favourite story to tell. It's a part of history that is simultaneously so foreign and yet so relatable today.
Not at all. When looking for my current job, having some in-person time was one of my top criteria. I was initially trying to find something 100% on-site, but that proved pretty hard to find.
I'm currently doing in-office 2 days per week, which isn't great, but it's less draining than fully remote at least.
I'm hoping that over the next few years things will normalise into some companies being fully remote and some fully on-site, rather than everywhere being "hybrid" (ie. bad for everyone) now. If it stays as it is I can't see myself working in tech much longer.
As a side note, I've found many job boards that have a "remote" filter, but not many that allow you to filter for "no remote".
Is the issue that you want a job where everyone else is also required to be 100% on site? I'm assuming that most "2 day per week" companies would be ok with you coming in 4 or 5 days a week but because most of your coworkers would not choose to do that you would lose most of the benefits you get from a 100% on-site environment? Or are some companies now also imposing a maximum on the number of days you're allowed rather than required to come in?
Yeah, if my coworkers aren't in the office, then going to the office is just remote work with a commute.
Obviously forcing people that want to work remotely to come in isn't great either though. That's why I'm hoping that companies will choose one path or the other, and people can self-select into companies with their preferred working arrangement
It will be interesting to see how it plays out. It seems like most of the big tech companies are having a hard time putting the genie back in the bottle with remote work as enough of their employees seem to prefer it that they can't remove the option completely without risking losing a lot of their people.
For new or small companies there are definite advantages to being fully remote (no office expenses, bigger talent pool to draw from) or fully in person (able to get any benefits from everyone being on site and able to more easily hire from the pool of people who prefer 100% on site). If we start to see companies make a clear choice then long term we might see one or the other model win out if the benefits are big enough or maybe they can both coexist as the benefits are context dependent.
No, you can use a quest 2 to play HL: Alyx on your PC via Oculus Link or Air Link. In that case, all the rendering is happening on your PC, and the quest is just a display. The Quest 2 can't run HL: Alyx itself.
Tempted to give this a try instead of feedly, but I can't find anywhere that they say (a) how much premium costs, or (b) what the restrictions on the free plan are. All I can see is on the Sign Up page, there's a drop-down that says what you get if you try premium for 14 days - no mention of how much it costs after that, or what the limitations are without it.
I don't mind paying (I currently pay for feedly), but I'd like to know what I'm up for before signing up.
This is very place-dependent. In california where everybody is driving to work, you're probably right. But in many European cities where people would take public transport to work, and instead are heating entire homes all day instead of heating one office for hundreds of staff, the environmental effect of WFH is probably negative.
Copilot on windows and android can do Dall-E image generation; I don't see why it wouldn't be able to on iOS