{"id":1586292,"date":"2022-08-03T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586292"},"modified":"2022-08-03T07:48:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:48:55","slug":"big-tech-companies-encourage-their-young-employees-to-do-more-than-15-minutes-of-real-actual-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-companies-encourage-their-young-employees-to-do-more-than-15-minutes-of-real-actual-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Companies Encourage Their Young Employees To Do More Than 15 Minutes of Real, Actual Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbig-tech-companies-encourage-their-young-employees-to-do-more-than-15-minutes-of-real-actual-work%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586292&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The world\u2019s tech titans are having panic attacks: It turns out that those Millennials and Gen-Z\u2019ers who provide the infrastructure that make our Internet and social media work <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/02\/job-openings-slide-in-june-as-inflation-rages-interest-rates-surge\/\">don\u2019t want to work too hard.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a rude awak\u00adening for the woke tech cognoscenti who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/02\/meta-google-workers-say-fading-perks-mean-end-of-tech-bro\/\">long showered their beloved employees<\/a> with lots of love \u2014 unlimited sick days, flexible work-from-home rules, ping-pong in the office, craft beers and the like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When times were flush, it just wasn\u2019t that easy finding college grads who can\u00a0write endless amounts of code and siphon all that user information from customer accounts that generated all those profits.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/tech-unemployment-rate-at-near-record-low-on-strength-of-employer-hiring-activity-comptia-analysis-finds-301515941.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tech gravy train is now suffering from a serious bout of recession-induced panic<\/a>. Profits are falling and so are stock valuations of what was once the most valuable piece of Corporate America. The dudes who run our tech industry are looking for ways to make up the difference, discovering that those pampered brats are a pretty unproductive and increasingly unaffordable lot as times get tough.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the normally flaccid Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed a trace of testosterone-fueled anger during a company-wide town hall last month. An employee asked about extended vacation time as Face\u00adbook (now formally called Meta for reasons no one can fathom) was preparing to announce weak ads sales, lower earnings and cratering revenues.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22143770243966.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AP22143770243966.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington.\" class=\"wp-image-23307423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22143770243966.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22143770243966.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22143770243966.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22143770243966.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Zuckerberg admitted there are employees working for Meta who \u201cshouldn\u2019t\u201d be.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Nick Wass<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRealistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn\u2019t be here,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/01\/mark-zuckerberg-meta-wants-to-oust-workers-who-shouldnt-be-here\/\">Zuckerberg snapped.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai was a bit more diplomatic, in a techie and creative kind of way. He recently told employees he\u2019s creating a weird initiative called \u201cSimplicity Sprint\u201d to cut costs as Google suffers declines in profits and stock price. Employees are being asked how to make Google more productive because \u201cit\u2019s clear we are facing a challenging macro environment with more uncertainty ahead,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/07\/31\/google-ceo-to-employees-productivity-and-focus-must-improve.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he said, according to CNBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t take much reading between the lines to conclude Pichai is basically asking employees how he and his team can weed out their unproductive colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t wait to hear their thoughts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22014768255588.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AP22014768255588.jpg\" alt=\"In this Oct. 3, 2019, file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a visit to El Centro College in Dallas.\" class=\"wp-image-23307429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22014768255588.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22014768255588.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22014768255588.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/AP22014768255588.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Google CEO Sundar Pichai is sourcing his own employees for ideas on how to make the company work more effectively.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/LM Otero<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Decisive action<\/h2>\n<p>Back in the day, CEOs seemed to take perverse delight in slicing layers of management off their balance sheets because investors liked decisive action (think \u201cNeutron Jack Welch, the former GE chief, or Morgan Stanley\u2019s legendary CEO John \u201cMack the Knife\u201d Mack).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Welch once told me no one at GE during his years was ever surprised when the ax fell because he imposed such a strict performance discipline. There also wasn\u2019t a lot of time for ping-pong and craft-beer breaks when Mack ran Morgan Stanley with his very iron fist.<\/p>\n<p>In our politically correct times, CEOs tried to make workers feel like they doing something special, like saving the Earth. Never mind the real job was finding new and\u00a0innovative ways to squeeze personal info from consumers so they could sell more ads.<\/p>\n<p>Now the charade is over. Tech executives could peddle higher purposes (\u201cdon\u2019t be evil\u201d) and free meals when the times were good. But those CEOs now need workers to be productive no matter how much they were programmed to be lazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the CEOs are really worried now that lackluster performance of many of the tech firms may be the result of structural issues that they are having with their business models,\u201d veteran recruiter Gary Goldstein of the Whitney Group tells Fox Business\u2019s Eleanor Terrett. \u201cI think employees have become less efficient as a result of not having that discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe too many just like being lazy. Where\u2019s Neutron Jack and Mack the Knife when you need them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s tech titans are having panic attacks: It turns out that those Millennials and Gen-Z\u2019ers who provide the infrastructure that make our Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}