I’m not even talking about meetings. If I need to know a quick answer, I just walk over and ask.
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I’m not even talking about meetings. If I need to know a quick answer, I just walk over and ask.
I hated that when I was still in an office full-time. It always pulled me out of whatever I was working on and then I had to waste time getting back into it. The pop in question is the worst. It's people who have zero consideration for others.
I briefly worked at a fintech startup a few years back that was 100% in-office, and the CEO had pretty much the same mindset as the guy in this article. I didn't mind being in office all the time, even though the job absolutely could've been done in a hybrid or even 100% from home. It was a startup, so collaboration was pretty important, so I didn't bother it too much.View attachment 135024
A tech startup is ending hybrid work — and the CEO says employees who don't like it should leave
"Remote work is not compatible with a high ambition level plus high speed," Carl Pei, the CEO of smartphone startup Nothing, told staffersqz.com
The people who work there are required to be pretty active on LinkedIn, and I saw people I'm still connected with who work there posting that they made all employees come into the office last winter when that massive snow storm when the DOT was saying travel was not advised on any roads, which was praised and celebrated by management. I thought was incredibly irresponsible and dangerous, especially when working from home capabilities are more than possible.
I'm interested in this topic, guessing you all will hate me, but here's how I see it:
When it comes to remote work, I think its important to acknowledge that every company (and each person) is different. Remote work may work well for some, and not well for others. I say this from working with 75 organizations across the country for the last 20 years.
I will say this, the organizations I see asking people to come back aren't doing so because they are evil, horrible, old man boomer types. They are doing so because the data shows a drop in productivity from remote workers and a drop in profits. Ask any individual person, and they will say " I am more productive at home", but the data from the companies I work with (including my own), doesn't show that. In our business, remote workers work less hours, and are less productive in those hours.
Here's the real issue facing remote workers in my industry, if you turn yourself into a commodity (I'll work X hours / X tasks for X pay), you are going to be replaced by someone in India or El Salvador who are some of the brightest, hardest working and ambitious people I work with.
When it comes to remote work, I think its important to acknowledge that every company (and each person) is different. Remote work may work well for some, and not well for others. I say this from working with 75 organizations across the country for the last 20 years.
I will say this, the organizations I see asking people to come back aren't doing so because they are evil, horrible, old man boomer types. They are doing so because the data shows a drop in productivity from remote workers and a drop in profits. Ask any individual person, and they will say " I am more productive at home", but the data from the companies I work with (including my own), doesn't show that. In our business, remote workers work less hours, and are less productive in those hours.
Here's the real issue facing remote workers in my industry, if you turn yourself into a commodity (I'll work X hours / X tasks for X pay), you are going to be replaced by someone in India or El Salvador who are some of the brightest, hardest working and ambitious people I work with.
See my previous statement. If you are not well liked, people won’t try to have meaningless conversations with you. It’s all connected.
Are you saying you pop in to have meaningless conversations? Sounds like a waste of time.
No. The pop in conversations are needed. Their work affects what I do, so I need to know what they’re doing.
Being an ******* avoids the meaningless hallway conversations. I don’t care about your kids and I don’t want to discuss mine with you. And don’t ever start a IM discussion with how’s your day. They will be ignored.
I disagree with pop-in conversations. They kill productivity. If you need to talk with me, make a GD appointment.
CycloneErik
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How is that different than shooting them a quick message on zoom/teams? Happens pretty regularly at my job - best of both worlds as you can shoot over a quick response, but don't need to stop what you're doing immediately if in the middle of something (unlike the walk over you mentioned).
Full remote since March of 2020! Never going back!
I'm one of those others at your company that choose to be full remote. I go in maybe once a month currently for team meetings/events & such.
Fully remote since Dec 2021. Post Covid my company started hybrid and remote options and many jobs that would have required a relocation got posted as remote considered. I worry they will go back to required in office at least some days a week, but a lot of people took advantage of remote jobs post-covid so it would be hard to go back as some people (like myself) live far away from the office. Some either took advantage of moving to other parts of the country when remote jobs became more prevalent.
