Lumbering corporate conglomerates are old, dusty, and can’t adapt to changing environments. They are not nimble. But they control so much market share that smaller, younger companies could never realistically hope to compete against the hegemonies…
So many women fill the remote jobs. For a group who want to see women actually being home for their children and families, why would they prevent her from earning a living to help her family by not taking her away from said family and yet letting her contribute financially. Musk is an idiot.
What???
Folks would rather skip the commute, extra time, and expenses involved with being at the office, instead of sleeping in a bit, eating at home, being around family more, and generally being more comfortable while working?
You're kidding, right?
With so many layoffs in this economy there probably isn’t any overall workforce growth.
All we see are the hireable (hence smarter) people abandoning companies that are mandating RTO. These companies will be left with the lowest performers that nobody else wants to hire.
It's not rocket science. There needs to be flexibility with the growing cost of childcare. People are going to be drawn to work environments that help improve the quality of their lives not hinder it. Remote and hybrid work environments do that.
I did 7 years remote BEFORE the pandemic for 2 different companies, then COVID shifted societal expectations and tools. Definitely a fan or remote but I do see the benefits of hybrid - when the whole team comes in on the same days. I like a distributed team, though.
The financial value of flexible work is significant, and done well it can also benefit employers. We need focus on developing the tools and management practices that help flex workers excel!
Work from home is very nice but it requires discipline and trust. One thing it does do on the negative ledger is stifle collaboration between colleagues. Private companies can do what they want. For Govt employees, it should be 100% in office.
I'm a govt contractor and 100% WFH. I hit and exceed every target. I live hundreds of miles away from DC and wouldn't be able to RTO even if I wanted to.
Granted not all individual contributor jobs need to be in the office. At this point I don't trust anything our govt does is efficient or cost effective. Hell we're selling un-installed materials for The Wall a pennies on the dollar that the Trump administration wants to install.
That’s such a weird take. I firmly believe that the only people who slack during WFH were the same people slacking in office. WFH isn’t the conduit for poor productivity or poor performance.
Nope. For almost any collaboration in person is the most effective. If not, why does any company, corporation, organization have meetings with everyone present? Meetings are the ultimate in collaboration.
In tech work, I haven't seen a decrease in collaboration. If anything, there's more because we don't have to fight for limited meeting space. Not much really happened at the proverbial water cooler but bullshitting. If you need to collab, just message someone or schedule some time.
I too worked in high tech at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Lucent, Agere, Monolithic Power Systems. Individual contributor work is done well at home. But once a system is described on a whiteboard in a meeting or just chatting to each other, it's difficult to stand up and add the board from home.
Fair, but that's only a problem for hybrid workplaces that don't make every meeting online. Businesses who adapt and figure out online collaboration will have a competitive advantage and a global candidate pool for employees. Tech companies stuck on old ways of doing business will be left behind.
I've been small confabs in the office writing on a whiteboard or paper and dialed up another person who couldn't see our drawings and participate. Also been a dude on the phone in big meetings and couldn't hear shit. My name would come up and I'd have to say 'Sorry, please repeat the question'.
An office building is like a school. I suspect not too many people want to go to school for 15+ years to have to commute to a different, but similar building to work for 8+ hours a day the rest of their life.
If your work is mostly done by computers or phone calls (telemarketing or customer service/support, etc.), WFH makes sense. Just go into office for F2F meetings 1 day/wk including lunch w/colleagues and work friends.
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Until the remote work revolution came along.
Folks would rather skip the commute, extra time, and expenses involved with being at the office, instead of sleeping in a bit, eating at home, being around family more, and generally being more comfortable while working?
You're kidding, right?
All we see are the hireable (hence smarter) people abandoning companies that are mandating RTO. These companies will be left with the lowest performers that nobody else wants to hire.
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They want their office building stuffed to the rafters for that tasty passive income.