Chris-at-former-work just told me that Roblox, apparently valuing either their real estate or their micromanagement more than they do their staff, have issued a Return to Office mandate. Remote employees have until mid Jan to either move or be severed.

Move. To The San Fransisco Bay Area, in a month, over the holidays.

Sounds like a bid to get people to quit.

this is fucked up

He checked some rents within an hour's commute, and says they're 3x his current mortgage.

It wasn't until a month or so ago that I realized I might have been let go because of a turn to machine learning.

I definitely think a lot of tech firms are doing this to reduce head count without the headlines that they are laying people off

Amber : Interesting theory.