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Meesho 2022 vs 2024

Not trying to be a critic here, nor trying to tarnish the reputation. But just wondering why does employee friendly policies like these change so quickly? Do investors and leaders get FOMO? Hey Amazon has called everyone to office so let's do it too. Or does the Work from anywhere policy was temporarily to attract good talent? FYI, this remote policy was scrapped within 1 year of implementing it.

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Gerald_Bieber

Swiggy

8 months ago

Tells u one rhinf- Cant trust a word these founders say, zero credibility
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ThanosIsRight

Meesho

8 months ago

As a Meesho employee, I concur.
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LetsGetLaidOff

Paytm

8 months ago

@ThanosIsRight which team are you in Meesho, if I may ask?
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ThanosIsRight

Meesho

8 months ago

At least, speaking for Meesho - they started calling everyone to office hoping it will cause enough attrition. Boy, they were wrong. Market was so bad that people sucked up and moved. Now they're mandating 3 days in office. We're yet to see the results.
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MightyLazyGeekStar

Stealth

8 months ago

The market is so bad that no one is resigning even out of frustration
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LetsGetLaidOff

Paytm

8 months ago

And then they had to layoff people in the name of performance. When that didn't do enough, they finally had to go for the bloodbath in May :')
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Elon_Musk

X.com

8 months ago

They waste all the money on fancy offices and hire mediocre folks just due to tier 1 tag and then wonder where all that investor money went
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LetsGetLaidOff

Paytm

8 months ago

Bro Meesho has really good people in business, tech and product.
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GoogleLowBalled

Google

8 months ago

Meesho is nothing but online thela store for cheap products
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ignitorconso

Meesho

8 months ago

+1 Agreed completely
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ignitorconso

Meesho

8 months ago

They are totally worthless. The manager promote the people who lick asses. I have seen this. One of my very knowledgeable friend didn't get promoted and inturn they promoted an ass licker in infra team
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FancyChino64

Stealth

8 months ago

everybody wants to ride the new thing in the market without much long-term thought
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Desidaddy

Sharechat

8 months ago

Results speak for themselves. They are profitable now and have moved to a really beautiful office space. So as a business, it was a great decision
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LaborMan

Meesho

8 months ago

Logon ko hatake, yes profitable :)
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Desidaddy

Sharechat

8 months ago

Logon ko rakh ke bankrupt to nhi ho sakte the na. They survived as a business and now they can easily grow and rehire people
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SecretWok99

Microsoft

8 months ago

Work from anywhere is not employee friendly. It is toxic for both employer and employee
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SebastianFettel

Stealth

8 months ago

Things happen quicker at office. There are some folks with whom you've to schedule calls for the silliest of things, this gets straightened up too. I've worked 3.5 years from home majorly, few days at office. Post switching is full time office and because everyone's at office, I see a better way of working together.
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SebastianFettel

Stealth

8 months ago

Not critiquing your comment here, what I stated could be the reason why Meesho has changed things. Considering they want to achieve profitability sooner.
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WryExile38

Swiggy

8 months ago

Haha clearly a big mistake
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FriendlyVine

Amazon

7 months ago

Does Meesho have ABM1 and ABM2 like APM1 and APM2?
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DesignTinker

Stealth

8 months ago

I believe it also has to do with commercial property prices. A lot of these companies also invest in commercial properties. A WFH culture will lead to lower property prices/valuation. Hence these companies are calling people back to office.
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BrisbaneBunny

Bollywood

8 months ago

Not to forget the real estate mafia. One of the reasons for offices opening up since they do not want their spaces to remain vacant for long.
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MistyWish

Dunzo

8 months ago

Bhut topi baaz hote hain ye founders, I got laid off founders pe believe kar k.
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Node

Stealth

8 months ago

Indian companies with boomer mentality (most of them) have easily folded. Especially in cities with pathetic traffic like Bangalore. Sure Amazon types did revert to office mode in the US but there are plenty of well paying tech jobs that are remote first.
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