<story><title>Walmart to close three tech hubs, tells tech staff to return to offices</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-to-close-three-tech-hubs-tells-tech-staff-to-return-to-offices-3fb131e4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>operatingthetan</author><text>I think given at-will employment they can renege on that agreement whenever they want.  Obviously it&amp;#x27;s best to have a meeting of minds, but can you really ever trust a corporation? Probably not.</text></item><item><author>walrus01</author><text>The short way of addressing this, if you are sufficiently senior in your position or in-demand for your tech skills, is to ensure that any offer letter has extremely unambiguous language written into it that your position is 100% remote and will remain remote. Tell that to the recruiter. If they don&amp;#x27;t do it, proceed with a short &amp;quot;thank you for your time but I am not interested&amp;quot; and move on.</text></item><item><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>Interesting that they contacted me just last week about an open position. I thought it was odd that the inside recruiter included an obviously abbreviated version of the job posting in her email to me. When I looked up some of the key phrases, I found the posting, which was listed as hybrid while my profile clearly indicates I only work 100% remote. When I asked her about how many days per week hybrid means, she said &amp;quot;about three&amp;quot;, which sounds an awful lot like four to me, which probably also means that one (possibly two) work from home days would soon go away. She didn&amp;#x27;t respond to my request for their location. If she wasn&amp;#x27;t an inside recruiter, I would have thought it was a scam attempt.&lt;p&gt;Got to wonder if the caginess is due to them having problems with finding people to take over the obviously on-site jobs. Sure, the initial contact could have been a simple mistake on her part, but then the editing of the job posting to exclude anything about hybrid and days in the office and then a resistance to explaining the details when I emailed her back is suspicious. I decided to not pursuit it further and now seeing this news, makes me feel like I made the right choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nordsieck</author><text>&amp;gt; I think given at-will employment they can renege on that agreement whenever they want. Obviously it&amp;#x27;s best to have a meeting of minds, but can you really ever trust a corporation? Probably not.&lt;p&gt;Sure.&lt;p&gt;But part of those precautions are so that you have a good story to tell your next company why you only worked somewhere for 4 months.&lt;p&gt;Although I suppose it&amp;#x27;s not necessary to include such short jobs on your resume at all.</text></comment>
<story><title>Walmart to close three tech hubs, tells tech staff to return to offices</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-to-close-three-tech-hubs-tells-tech-staff-to-return-to-offices-3fb131e4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>operatingthetan</author><text>I think given at-will employment they can renege on that agreement whenever they want.  Obviously it&amp;#x27;s best to have a meeting of minds, but can you really ever trust a corporation? Probably not.</text></item><item><author>walrus01</author><text>The short way of addressing this, if you are sufficiently senior in your position or in-demand for your tech skills, is to ensure that any offer letter has extremely unambiguous language written into it that your position is 100% remote and will remain remote. Tell that to the recruiter. If they don&amp;#x27;t do it, proceed with a short &amp;quot;thank you for your time but I am not interested&amp;quot; and move on.</text></item><item><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>Interesting that they contacted me just last week about an open position. I thought it was odd that the inside recruiter included an obviously abbreviated version of the job posting in her email to me. When I looked up some of the key phrases, I found the posting, which was listed as hybrid while my profile clearly indicates I only work 100% remote. When I asked her about how many days per week hybrid means, she said &amp;quot;about three&amp;quot;, which sounds an awful lot like four to me, which probably also means that one (possibly two) work from home days would soon go away. She didn&amp;#x27;t respond to my request for their location. If she wasn&amp;#x27;t an inside recruiter, I would have thought it was a scam attempt.&lt;p&gt;Got to wonder if the caginess is due to them having problems with finding people to take over the obviously on-site jobs. Sure, the initial contact could have been a simple mistake on her part, but then the editing of the job posting to exclude anything about hybrid and days in the office and then a resistance to explaining the details when I emailed her back is suspicious. I decided to not pursuit it further and now seeing this news, makes me feel like I made the right choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&amp;gt; I think given at-will employment they can renege on that agreement whenever they want.&lt;p&gt;“at-will” employment refers to the laws setting the baseline conditions that apply &lt;i&gt;absent&lt;/i&gt; a specific contract to the contrary.&lt;p&gt;An offer and acceptance of employment on specific terms, if it meets the requirements for contract formatiom trumps the default terms unless it is blocked by something in the law. That’s &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; important employees (e.g., top execs, 9f nothing else) in most firms have specific contracts with terms that are not at-will employment (and why union contracts exist, too.)</text></comment>