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I'm proud to say that one of the highlights of our TSIA benchmark from 2021 was "F5 takes excellent care of its employees and is rewarded with Pacesetter attrition levels and high employee satisfaction." Like @Neal Hatton, our company started polling its workers long before returning to the office to gather their…
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Option #1 and #2 still haven't occurred. Things still aren't "normal" and folks haven't returned to an office environment on a regular basis. It seems I've arrived at your original question: Shelter in place begins, and an engineer takes their desktop, monitor, chair, keyboard, mouse home with them and figures out how to…
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Our company polled all of the employees that were normally full-time office workers and asked them what their preference was Full time in office No more than two days a week in the office (and no assigned cubicle) Full time at home
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@TommyGlicker short answer I haven't seen anything new equipment-wise introduced in our company since the pandemic started. It was already good - you could order new desktop/laptop/monitor equipment and have it shipped to your home, even the more consumable stuff like keyboards, mice and headphones if you don't care about…
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@Mary Cay Kosten at F5 we started by taking a (voluntary) pledge (https://www.f5.com/company/blog/our-pledge-for-racial-equality--diversity--and-inclusion). This was introduced in June and now F5 is making changes to our product line, documentation, training material, etc. The scope looks like it will be the same as the…
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"At the end of the formal part of the meeting we spent thirty minutes getting randomly sorted into groups for five minute chats and exchanges of ideas. This worked surprisingly well." This sort of thing is appealing to me, especially if there's a magical way to get the "shy" (mildly engaged) people out of the corner and…
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Love all the insights. F5 has obtained membership to Headspace for all employees, and there are some employee-led Zoom sessions for meditating. There are more executive-led calls on Zoom laying out F5's response, and Directors and VPs are encouraged to run all-hands calls with a non-business agenda. This has been going on…
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Hello and welcome. I'm looking forward to this being the best part of being a TSIA member. My interest lies in Support Services, Education Services, xPM and anything related to the human side of working in tech.
