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.
Yay. Hope this turns out great for him.
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.
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
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.
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.
VMware is effectively a monopoly on entreprise virtualization. What else are the costumers going to pick?
HyperV is a joke, promox is amazing but it’s free software, and every other relevant provider is just a layer on top of VMware.
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.
Broadcom CEO announces layoffs through obscurity.
Goodbye talent
Either they’ve already inked special exceptions with their top talent, or those guys are about to leave.
Can’t imagine it’s too big a pool of engineers at the very top of virtualization technology.
On the other hand, they must think VMware portfolio is a rather stable set of solutions, while the bulk of innovation is moving towards kubernetes like solutions that they don’t want to follow, as they are late and don’t want to invest to build the know how.
They are considering to transform the business model more like oracle, sap, cisco, where the core business is sales not innovation. Their plan is probably that they have such a strong position in the market that talents are not needed, just average people who can patch out stuff somehow.
I have too much technical experience to agree with them that this is a good call. I believe it will be a disaster on the long run. But their background is clearly different, and they saw on the market a huge amount of successful companies with such business model. First among all pre-nadella Microsoft.
The absolute disrespect for workers. Why talk to them this way?
Because they don’t see them as people, they see them as disposable assets and resources.
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.
VMware is not on death row. VMware is already dead. It no longer exists. All that’s left is an entity possessing its corpse.
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.
