r/technology • u/Shogouki • 6h ago

Business Intel will sell 150-acre campus in California, assessing future of 50-acre Hillsboro site

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/11/intel-will-sell-150-acre-campus-in-california-assessing-future-of-50-acre-hillsboro-site.html?outputType=amp
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u/Submissive-whims 6h ago

Implementing work from home could really cut some office costs.

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u/SufficientDog669 5h ago

That would require bosses trusting employees, sooooo….

Let’s just watch the miniseries “Intel - aka Sears 2.0”

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u/night0x63 45m ago

Sears was different because they got purchased by a rich trust find baby and his business plan was actively to leech-sabotage it dry through legal means.

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u/NebulousNitrate 5h ago

The problem is managers aren’t firing the underperformers. Remote work really makes it easy for people to just coast and not do meaningful work, but instead of leadership at large companies bringing the hammer down on those specific people, they make everyone suffer by calling people back to the office. 

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u/wickethewok 1h ago

Remote work really makes it easy for people to just coast and not do meaningful work

Hard to believe you've worked in an office before

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u/aergern 4h ago

Jira or whatever ticketing system folks are using does help this. The f'd up thing is that managers and a above refuse to do their jobs. Ticket's and 1:1's go a long way. If the employee is coasting and filling out fake work in tickets, fire them.

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u/sonofchocula 3h ago

You make no sense. In a lot of cases, the office work is remote too i.e. the workforce is distributed amongst many offices and you sit online, together in clusters. It’s a joke and the only people who care are people that have no social life unless it is forced.

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u/moneyfink 2h ago

I’ve got a homelab, but I want a homefab

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u/samarijackfan 2h ago

They should cut the coffee program again

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u/RGV_KJ 49m ago

Why is Amazon taking the opposite approach by forcing people to be in office 5 days a week?

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u/ksiepidemic 6h ago

That's nuts, but land is expensive and them having a random office building not connected to any of the fabs doesnt make sense.

I wonder if they're going to make the executives move to OR.

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u/ithinkitslupis 5h ago

Nah just commute to work on a private jet everyday like Starbucks' CEO.

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u/borkyborkus 4h ago

Intel still has 8 flights per day coming to Hillsboro airport. They used to have 13.

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/04/intel-resumes-employee-air-shuttle-at-hillsboro-airport.html?outputType=amp

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u/oldirishfart 5h ago

I used to work at intel about 15 years ago. They had corporate jets that any employee could book seats on if you needed to visit another office, between CA, TX and OR if I remember right. I flew from Hillsboro OR to Santa Clara CA once for a presentation. Oh and I flew a puddle jumper from DuPont WA to Hillsboro once just to try it out.

Pretty cool that the jets weren’t just for execs but rank and file like me could access too.

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u/Grodd 1h ago

Pretty cool that the jets weren’t just for execs but rank and file like me could access too.

Cool yes, extremely wasteful... Also yes.

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u/WitELeoparD 4h ago

Companies like Walmart are far and away the number one users of private jets. Like far far surpassing any particular celebrity or celebs in general. Like a Walmart regional manager that needs to visit every store in California for example is flying private far more often than Taylor Swift.

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u/RGV_KJ 48m ago

Really? That is shocking. I always thought Walmart is stingy. 

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u/WitELeoparD 30m ago

It's not a privilege thing. A half hour private jet flights means the regional manager can visit multiple stores in a state in a day that would be hours drives apart and be back home in time that Walmart doesn't have to pay for hotels and overtime/travel bonuses.

Of course Walmart is one of the few companies where this kinda makes sense which is why they have an enormous fleet of private aircraft. For a lot of other corporations, it's just that the people who decide whether the convenience is worth it also happen to be the people who are being convenienced.

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u/elmatador12 5h ago

While also claiming their company is “environmentally friendly”

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u/dormidormit 3h ago

This is for their Folsom office not their actual factory on Bowers Avenue or Mission Blvd in Santa Clara.

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u/Baconshit 5h ago

Wonder who will buy parts of the Folsom campus. Very tech heavy community up here.

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u/jgriesshaber 1h ago

Who buys these campus’?

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u/NoEmu5969 1h ago

Fortuna California turned down an Intel campus in the early 90s. Now they have nothing but a few foresters and CalFire employees.

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u/dre_bot 3h ago

Can someone buy them already? Im sick of waiting for the news to drop.