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Archive for August 14th, 2024

Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks | Gartner, 2024-05-20

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/14

After decades telling management that remote work is best for most of the IT-teams, or in more general white-collar workers, Covid-19 proving it does, some managers still don’t get it.

After years of the Return-to-Office movement trying to get people back to the office, Gartner finally found out that RTO is a major risk of losing talent or not even acquiring talent.

[Wayback/Archive] Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks | Gartner

  • Nearly three-quarters of executives say return-to-office (RTO) mandates are a source of leadership conflict.
  • Lack of work-life balance ranks among the top five reasons employees quit.

Via [Wayback/Archive] David Chartier: “The Data Is In: Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Talent Risks …” – Toot Café

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ladislav-zezula/FileTest: Source code for File Test – Interactive File System Test Tool

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/14

Cool tool to peek around in the Windows File System API and fiddle around uncharted territory: [Wayback/Archive] ladislav-zezula/FileTest: Source code for File Test – Interactive File System Test Tool.

It is written in C++ using Visual Studio and has build-instructions in [Wayback/Archive] FileTest/README.md at master · ladislav-zezula/FileTest.

Via [Wayback/Archive] “create reparse point” “query reparse point” – Google Search (which also found [Wayback/Archive] Free File Utilities – Free download and software reviews – CNET Download [Wayback download]) after reading a tweet thread having these highlights:

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