Even if this was true, it is very weird. When was the last time, institutions and bosses ask their employees to use a specific tool? It’s more often that employees fall in love with a tool and ask institutions to pay for it, here’s it’s the exact opposite
We were asked to migrate from Zoom to Teams recently. We have to use git and GitHub. Recently, there's a mandate to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. We have to use Windows or Mac, no Linux. We have to have the corporate VPN and antivirus running. And so on, and so on.
Perhaps that's why office jobs seem less productive than ever, since the invention of the computer... The usual meritocracy of the workers choosing their own tools is upset by top-down planning by insufficiently experienced people, having to bear no consequences for their choices.
[–] sashank_1509 1 day ago
[–] Leherenn 1 day ago
We were asked to migrate from Zoom to Teams recently. We have to use git and GitHub. Recently, there's a mandate to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. We have to use Windows or Mac, no Linux. We have to have the corporate VPN and antivirus running. And so on, and so on.
[–] pona-a 21 hours ago
git was picked meritocratically, Teams was not...