Software CEO worth almost $12 billion says he goes into the office ‘about once a quarter,’ bucking the return to office trend in Big Tech::undefined
Atlassian is an Australian company, that’s why.
The companies pushing to get people back into the office are coincidentally the ones being run by individuals who also have a vested interest in avoiding the corporate property market bubble bursting, as it has become increasingly clear that the absolute monstrous amount of parking lots, giant offices, and fast food chains in inner cities are no longer very much needed in the modern world, when a massive amount of the work force can get their job done just as well, if not better, from the comfort of their homes.
Unfortunately they have a vested interested in keeping that market, which is already on life support, breathing as long as possible or their net worth crashes.
Result: try and force your employees back in the office in a vain attempt to perform CPR on said market an— oh shit what, you just quit and got a job for a company halfway around the world? You can just do that? Are you telling me there’s countries out there not propping up overly engorged property markets and teetering their economy on top of a dead in the water industry…?
Shit, guess they didn’t think that through very well…
This is equally true for Australia. It has nothing to do with the fact it an Australian company
Yep, believe it or not, we have cities and an overinflated property market in Australia too. But Scott Farquhar is very down to earth for a billionaire. Comes from a less-affluent area of Sydney, went to public school (admittedly one of the most difficult to be admitted to), doesn’t surprise me that he’s more “understanding” of the employees.
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Not sure why net worth would legitimize his position
Probably because most of the people at his net worth are pushing for RTO so he’s the exception to the rule.
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If anything, it weakens the article
“Duh of course he doesn’t go. Rich people and C suites are the two classes that NEVER work. And he’s both”
I have no idea why the title doesn’t focus on the policy for the workers, rather than the CEO’s
How the fuck does anyone get to be worth 12 billion dollars?
By having every large corporation using your products to operate their businesses.
I don’t know about now but back when i worked in STEM, almost everyone in tech used some atlassian software
the company has an IPO so the net worth is largely equity value, i’m sure the net worth would have increased substantially during COVID/wfh periods.
from his wikipedia page “Farquhar often carries the epithet of accidental billionaire after he and his business partner Mike Cannon-Brookes founded Atlassian with the aim to replicate the A$48,500 graduate starting salary typical at corporations without having to work for someone else”
Fuck RTO but also fuck atlassian, shit company making shit software.
Someone’s upset their PM made them start using JIRA tickets
Someone’s upset their PM made them start using JIRA tickets
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what do people use if not JIRA?
Azure DevOps Boards, Trello (owned by Atlassian), Bitbucket Issues (owned by Atlassian), GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues, Bugzilla, You track, Taiga, …
Bruh. Jira is just one problem. Have you ever tried to maintain Confluence docs after the doc’s owner left the company?
Don’t say jira. I get cold sweats. It really is slow and shite.
More like I’m glad I don’t have to use it anymore, the entire development side of the company was forced to use it with ridiculous deadlines.
It was used as a tool for upper management to know who to fire next…
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KPIs are often shit and management is often ill-equipped to be reading and assessing KPIs but that’s on management, not on Atlassian.
So any tool used to determine who to fire is a bad tool? Like email, video conferencig software, calculators, spreadsheets…
