#productivity

While I have no control over management decisions, I do have control over my own actions. My response is straightforward: if my compensation is reduced, my productivity will decrease at the same proportional rate.

Come on guys, what a joke.
Plano office is basically a ghost town of productivity. Hardly anyone actually working.

My entire team? Mostly H4EAD housewives from Telangana who’ve been here 10+ years and still have zero clue how the software actually works. Their real expertise? flawless coffee badging 3 days a week. Ethics? Work ethic? Initiative? Bro, those words left the building decades ago.
Everyone’s just coasting, collecting paychecks, and pretending this circus is sustainable. In the AI era… how long is this absolute clown show supposed to keep running? Seriously, someone tell me. I’m dying to know.

#CorporateLife #CoastingCulture #ProductivityMyth

Stop laying off every 3 months. Do one and done. Stop changing plans please. People will be more productive.

What does it mean for a location when Fort Worth sends two individuals for a week to observe productivity and practices 👀 and nobody in management was aware they were coming. One guy for car and one for locomotive.

Am I the only one whose productivity wend down due to AI? Checking and rechecking things is taking more time than doing something on my own. I'm just saying, this AI push might not have the results they're hoping for.

I guess this would be a question for management ,MBA that are out there if you are top seller in a department, but you don’t get as many credits as they want. Can they threaten to write up that person saying that productivity is not met? can’t ask HR as they will see the case. after three conversations, they are writing up whoever doesn’t get a credit. Is this allowed?

I hear AI is axing jobs. KC seems to think its a job eliminator to cut back on people. Rumor Ive heard our CHRO has in mind anyway. Whats the strategy. Productivity or cost savings?

Until this layoff situation is clearer, I'm doing nothing.

That's AI productivity for you

This is pretty crazy:

https://time.com/article/2026/03/11/anthropic-claude-disruptive-company-pentagon/

I'm sure there's a large amount of effort that goes into validation, but yikes. Meanwhile, AI from MS lags pretty far behind, so WF people are safe for a bit. Has anyone seen any actual AI agent automation being experimented with in any meaningful way at this point? If so, tell us what it's doing!

Be honest... how many real hours are you working per week?

Not meetings or being online… actual focused work. 10? 15?

I think most people spend their time in meetings instead of actually working.

Nothing ki-ls motivation faster than knowing your every move is being scrutinized. I'm spending more time documenting what I'm doing than actually doing it. I've noticed that many folks have started checking boxes instead of solving problems which ensures few things actually get done. What's with the sudden pivot to micromanaging? Or is this my area only?

Friday tomorrow, you know what that means, focus room reserved. I’ll be there at 6am with my yeti cup full 3/4 Jack Daniels 1/4 Joe. I’ll spend the morning researching March madness picks and calling my bookie, from the privacy of my office of course. I’ll go for my 30 minute morning dump and then a walk to see some friendlies around 9. Obviously share the sauce. Around 11 I head out for a liquid lunch at a nearby watering hole then take a little siesta in the truck. When I wake up I head back inside to jiggle my mouse and watch March madness games. It’s 2pm before you know it and I’ve hit my 8 hours, weekend is here. Time to close up and head to the bar for a couple more drinks and a basket of wings while I cash my bets. RTO ain’t so bad, there’s really no pressure to do anything besides show up and check the box. Life is good.

They cost a bunch right away with severance and other related stuff, and then they hire new people who might be cheaper but are less productive and sometimes need two new employees to cover what one person used to do. How does that somehow equate to savings?

Hearing from certain people about reports tracking amount of time we are “active” and people with low numbers being called out? Any truth to this? Had anyone heard anything similar?

Why is Xerox still paying people to essentially do nothing? I know quite a few AR and claims jobs that require 1 person tops to do yet they still pay them...

Does anyone know the final date now?

It’s getting very unproductive in the sense there is no clarity to do or to not do any work?

A lot of economists think the 40 hour workweek is outdated because it was designed for factory labor in the early 1900s. Today most work is knowledge work, and studies show productivity often drops after about 30–32 hours. The 40 hour work week was designed to keep you tired and to control you.

1. Folks will spend more time finding available seats
2. Will spend more time commuting during peak hours
3. Will log in less at home if 8 hours requirement is met for day.
4. People may work on different shifts like 6am-2pm vs 9-5 vs 10-6. It’s hard to schedule meeting across different time zones.
   What else?

Of all the job functions AI is evaluating within Verizon, VBG leadership is uniquely ripe for replacement. While they talk about transformation initiatives, gap closure plans, and ad hoc Tiger Teams, none have produced real change. Just executive programs to meet their PA objectives.

The daily focus of status calls, roll up forecast reporting, escalations - those are human bottleneck inefficiencies AI will eliminate. Similarly, holding meetings to plan for meetings with higher level human leaders are also productivity black holes, easily identified via meta-analyses of calendar workflows. And the track record of decisions made after too much deliberation…the results achieved are uninspiring, to put it kindly.

While The leadership enjoyed MWC, the sales kick off in EMEA, The Superbowl, and the hospitality suite at CES, the real work of transformation languished back at the office.

AI discovery assessments in 2026 are ruthless. It won't be long now.

Great article on the Hill about how RTO initiatives are sabotaging productivity because the office is a noisy, distracting time-su-k:
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5775420-remote-first-productivity-growth/

But as we all know, BB's motivation for RTO was never about productivity; he's trying to drive attrition so that he can get costs down and sell off the parts for cheap:
https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/business-execs-just-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud-on-rto-mandates-a-quarter-admit-forcing-staff-back-into-the-office-was-meant-to-make-them-quit-but-this-quiet-firing-practice-could-easily-backfire

Canon USA’s transition to Google will end up being one of the most regrettable decisions of Sammy’s tenor.

If you are like me, you did your best to prepare but nothing could prepare you for the drastic change that was put upon us on Monday. I bet most of you sat at your computer and threw your hands up once or twice this week. The new tagline for Canon will be “ Blame on Google”.

As I start to learn the product more each day, I am finding out that Google simply isn’t Microsoft when it comes to corporate USA needs and wants.

If Microsoft was concerned that more companies would move to Google, odds are they wouldn’t have raised their per license structure. The reality is Microsoft knows they are better and could charge this fee.

Communication has been at an all time low this week because people simply don’t know how to use the product.

The money we save will be offset by the lack of production this product brings upon us.

The person who made this decision should resign immediately.

HouseCalls leadership is setting the program up to fail. At a time when MA risk-adjustment coding is under the highest scrutiny it’s ever been and risk scores are still one of the main revenue drivers, they keep adding more internal metrics and efficiency targets that make accurate documentation harder, not easier. There’s a clear inverse relationship between coding to the level of specificity now required and pushing APC, completion %, and daily volume. You simply can’t maximize quality, compliance, and productivity all at the same time. Something will give. Right now it feels like leadership wants all three, which isn’t realistic in the current regulatory environment. This is exactly how programs end up with compliance problems.

New productivity metrics for APCs announced this morning.
…here’s comes more emails and performance plans about how we arent doing good enough

Wait being a inflexible employer doesn't get you productivity gains?

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5775420-remote-first-productivity-growth/

" The Flex Index finds that fully flexible companies grew revenues 1.7 times faster than mandate-driven firms from 2019 to 2024, even after adjusting for industry and size. "

Three meetings so far today. Every single one, people staring at screens or out the window. Nobody wants to be there. Nobody is paying attention but looks like nobody cares either. What's the point??

https://www.thehill.com/opinion/technology/5775420-remote-first-productivity-growth/

Just going to leave this here.

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5775420-remote-first-productivity-growth/amp/

How are your reviews going? Have you been told that you need to increase your productivity? With less people. With no one to make decisions. With product owners not working with the team to guide decisions, not attending meetings, or responding to questions. With a loose roadmap that changes as often as the leadership changes.

And the recommendation by management is to work more hours including nights and weekends. Assume that AI will be the solution to all your problems. Do more in less time with less resources. That is not a request. That is a command. And no, you will not be incentivized to do more.

Don't forget, we expect this from you with no real support from us. We (mgt) are too busy trying to save ourselves with the new executives on the merry-go-round. Our theory is if we can last a year, we are likely to outlive their terms here at Teradata given their work histories.

So hang on. Work like you are fighting for your life, because you are. Do not sleep. Do not have a family. Just do what we tell you, until we change our minds. And if you do all that, you may - or may not- still have a job tomorrow.

Can you name a team who is most difficult to work with ? Basically nothing can be done with this team.
Keeps on adding friction to others work and won’t deliver anything by themselves.

If leadership insists that work is most productive within office walls, I’m happy to lean into that philosophy. Moving forward, my office hours are my only hours. The 'after-hours' emails and evening catch-up sessions from the couch are over. If the goal is a strict office environment, then the work stays at the desk. Naturally, my output will reflect the loss of those extra 'home hours'—my metrics are already showing the dip compared to last year—but I’m simply following the new standard set for us.

It’s not just me. Employees have stopped working. As the rumors continue, people are sitting and waiting. Why invest any effort at all if you’re gone “Tomorrow”. If Oracle wants to resume normal business , they better move past the layoffs rumors and make it happen. At this point workers have stepped off the playing field while they await word of their employment. Productivity has ground to a halt.

Companies keep sinking money into people who spend their entire day bouncing between Teams calls, producing nothing but politics and noise. Meanwhile, the product decays, and sales has to compensate for problems that shouldn’t exist.

The real drain isn’t the technical staff—it’s the layers of middle management whose output is meetings, decks, and vague directives. They enable the steady flow of outsourced slop by approving it, defending it, and pushing it onto engineers to salvage.

It’s no surprise that products decline the moment they enter certain corporate ecosystems. When decision‑making is dominated by people who don’t build anything, quality becomes optional.

If companies want better outcomes, they should stop funding the Teams‑call industrial complex and redirect those resources to the people actually delivering value.

It's all meetings about meetings and reports about reports. It slows everything down. Not that anybody among leadership cares, mind you. It's just the new way of doing things.

And I still out-perform my ‘coworkers’. And we’re surprised about layoffs?

From what I see, people are more productive, more responsive, and putting in more hours. Why would any company want to give that up?

1. Jumped on an sec update call so my name would be noticed and solved Wordle in 3 tries!
2. Bumped my used couch and lowered the price on alt-classified. Found a smoking deal on a few used Star Wars figures!
3. Took a long walk through the buildings using the bridges and took a big dump. Walked fast to look busy.
4. Joined an incident slack channel and asked for status to look like I was involved. Asked a d-mb question that was answered 3 posts previously (oops!).
5. Went to a meditation class and then a fun e-bike ride through campus!
6. Bought some cheap blazer tickets on alt-tickets.
7. Spent a couple hours on the van but only saw cleats.
8. Asked why the stock wasn’t rising on alt-personal finance. Wow, so many answers from people!
9. Calling it a day. Winning!

is there any fued between these two teams?

They always push each others work and delay the work for other teams?

simple changes, Needs CRM teams approval. Work blocked.
Simple approval from CRM, Appsec teams reviewed need more comments from them? Work Blocked.

when will there be a actual work done in this Fiserv?

is anyone working?

For all of us in Phase 1, curious to hear your thoughts on the experiment thus far after the snack cart honeymoon period has worn off.

I for one think it’s worse than expected. For sure my productivity has gone down with my commute and working hours. I am no longer amenable to responding to Slacks or emails after hours if this level of rigidity is in place. That alone is a big productivity drop.

While in the office finding rooms to have meetings or private conversations are becoming more and more complicated. Why do unused offices and meeting rooms get locked? Is it a safety issue?

No benefit to this. More attrition and lost productivity on it way.