Broadcom CEO Hock Tan was unsparing in his expectations about remote work during a meeting with his new employees.

Broadcom is laying off 1,267 Palo Alto-based VMware workers following its acquisition of the company

Chip manufacturer Broadcom wrote the latest chapter in the long story of return-to-office tensions between bosses and employees.

After completing its $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing company VMWare, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan issued a direct order to his new employees about where they must work. “If you live within 50 miles of an office, you get your butt in here,” he told the workers of previously remote-friendly VMWare.

The comments came during a meeting Tan hosted on Tuesday after the merger between the two companies officially closed, following approval from Chinese regulators. Like many other executives, Tan cited in-person work’s benefits to collaboration and company culture. “Collaboration is important and a key part of sustaining a culture with your peers, with your colleagues,” he said.

    • netburnr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      2 years ago

      Everything is going to be core based for licensing, and if you aren’t in their top 600 customers you will receive worst support. Both of those things have been publicly stated.

      • 0xF21D@infosec.pubEnglish
        14·
        2 years ago

        Yup. And I have a couple workstation licenses in need of an upgrade purchase that will probably not happen now. Linux KVM is looking more appealing.

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      2 years ago

      Now? The writing was on the wall years ago. Support has already taken a nosedive, and they’ve basically all but stopped selling anything except to the biggest customers.

      • 0xF21D@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I never needed to contact support for VMWare Workstation and when I did have a problem forums helped. So I didn’t notice. I did however notice when this whole Broadcom thing started taking shape and now it’s more obvious than before.

      • SapphironZA@lemmings.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        I tend to draw the line around the 500 VMs mark and whether you use hyper-converged hardware. Above 500 VMs you are likely to be using dedicated storage, where XCP-ng will scale more easily.

        Proxmox makes hyper-converged management simpler than XCP-ng and can handle more complex networking setups out of the box.

        But there is a pretty large overlap between their capabilities.