WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing"

Of the office is so good, why did they green screen it instead of actually going there?

WebMD, the site that gives a diagnosis of 'cancer' for everything.

in 2021 my job was "informing, not asking". a bunch of us walked, and it crippled the OU. They actually shut it down not long ago, they decided to keep a skeleton crew on to keep the app running while the contracts run out, then they're gonna sunset it

Close-quartered offices are disease farms. Stress lowers your immune system.

WebMD wants to make its workers unhealthy.

This will definitely push all accounting, data entry and other such office workers to the heights of creativity and inventiveness - just what they need! /s

" Internet Brands did not respond to a request for comment, except to say that people were busy with meetings. "

Lololololol

Fuck them. It sounds like they're too bust having meetings instead of getting work done.

this seems like a tactic so people quit instead of having to do layoffs.

The most surprising thing I learned from this video is that WebMD still exists

Kind of balsy for a software company that is basically running a web page to replace office visits with a doctor.....

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Everyone is so desperate to kill their workers, and then they'll say, "Nobody wants to work anymore."

“informing, not asking”

To any employees out there, don't be someone else's biotch.

Demand for workers is at one of its highest points right now.

There are other jobs out there, but you only have one respect for yourself.

(The above is said assuming that the company is not trying to just shed employees. If that is the case, then stay and give them hell. Only you can determine the state of the company you're working at, financially.)

Sounds like a whole lotta quittin' time.

I would boycott them, but I never use them anyway

"We've invested heavily in our cooperate headquarters and if people realize that offices are unnecessary in the modern workplace we'll lose millions."

People keep talking about corporate real estate and how companies need ppl in offices or the value would crash. But wouldnt the company stand to benefit in the long run by just biting the bullet on the remainder of their lease, not renew, and go 100% remote? Or at least drastically downsize.

Would that not save millions in overhead, lease payments, etc into the future? Or do they have 30 year lease agreements or something?

I would pay so much fucking money to beat the shit out of that ceo. He did say we get better ideas by seeing each other face to face! I got an idea I think will get better if he and I meet fist to face

TBH was WebMD ever actually reputable? They're like the Forbes of the medical world except Forbes actually used to be good.

I don't understand why you even need employees if your entire website is just this weird little game that you can't win or lose and ends with "cancer". It is like the traditional labyrinth, go right or go left or go straight, don't matter. As long as you keep moving you are going to always get to the same spot. There are early 2000s flash games that had more complexity.

I was just casually googling this video and came across this absurdity. I don't dare give them views to find out the answer.

They want people back "for the simple reason" that they work better together. Well, yeah, I'd agree, without a pandemic.

But healthy people work even better.

I would strangle everyone who appeared in this video.

Well aren't they big and bad...

Fuckingcapitalists

Translation: WebMD is trying to get employees to self-terminate rather than initiating a round of layoffs.

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A company may ask things of their employees, it's not a free for all...

I agree the video is cringy AF, but I don't have a problem with the company demanding its employees return to working in the office rather than remotely. There are a whole host of tangible benefits (for both companies and employees) from coming into work and I don't see a problem with a company insisting on it. There are some industries and/or jobs in which remote work is probably fine, but most organizations benefit more from having people come into a shared workspace.