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.

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      Because they don’t see them as people, they see them as disposable assets and resources.

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        Sloan School of Business… Every worker is a cog. Every worker must have a very narrow job to ensure replaceability and low wages.

        VMware is on death row.

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          VMware is not on death row. VMware is already dead. It no longer exists. All that’s left is an entity possessing its corpse.

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            11 months ago

            Fair argument. The brain is dead but the body is still animated. Roting parts will start to fall off soon.

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      That way of treating the younger generation won’t fly. The boomers put up with it, even some gen x. But the millennials and zoomers are all about workers rights. This dude is about to find out.

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          And they will, but a huge difference in innovation when the majority don’t want to be there. Quality will probably start to dip first. Then attrition will rise slowly. It won’t happen over night butbas the market improves, the bleeding will begin.