Still wfh for me. I do wonder if that’s because as a medium sized, not a big tech company, office space is tricky.
I imagine this is similar for a lot of places not rolling in dough, office space is expensive.
Office space is expensive. Part of WFH does also cost shift running an office onto employee. Especially if you have kids, you’ll likely need a whole other room in your home.
That is a fair point. I suppose, because you just described me, that yeah I do happen to have my own office, but not everyone can.
Yeah… Really the average American home is just not set up for 1-2 adults working office jobs. Maybe it should be, but that would result in even bigger (and less affordable) homes.
I have been working remote for same place for 12 years. If needed, I would assume outfit a external shed as an office before going back into the office. When I visit I feel like my skin is crawling – I can’t ever go back.
You must have had a worse office than most of us. A good office is a nice place to get away from family life with.
The office is very nice. I think it is just what I want at this time in my life. I want to be around my family with my dog laying at my feet - not in a corporate environment.
I get that. It’s how I felt before I had kids all up in my shit in my home office.
As someone who leads a team in tech this is maddening. There are days for me that I personally like being in the office, but tech 100% has no issues embracing remote work.
I’ve seen more leadership just not able to grasp the fact they have to embrace technology to communicate, as opposed to walking over to someone’s sunlight isolated desk cube.
I actually think most “deep work” gets done best in some form of isolation, be it remote work or in a dedicated office. For most people I know in tech, their home days are their productivity days.
Unless Slack gets in the way.
100% agree with this. If I have to do project planning sessions or something with more collaboration then fine the office is good for that. This is mainly because I do actually hate Zoom,Webex, etc with a passion. Majority of my communication can and does occur via messaging (instant) and email.
For me isolation means more focus time. I have worked with enough leadership, that unfortunately views it the opposite.
Yeah. I feel like “tech” in the article refers to the management and C-level people, not the developers, designers, engineers et al. who actually do the work and who would, on average, probably prefer the option to work remotely.
Any chance you, or anyone really, could provide the article behind the paywall?
There’s a bypass paywalls extension for Librewolf or Firefox if you’re on desktop.
Is there a specific one that you use/recommend for Firefox?
Not sure which one I originally installed as it may have been removed from the add ons section, but this looks like it. bypass paywalls
Different things work for different folks, but I’m not sure 100% remote is really that good of an idea. It works for a while, but eventually when you have a ton of people who have literally never met working together, inefficiencies evolve. I’ve seen it happen.
Now maybe for some companies whose culture really emphasizes remote, and who have business process nailed down to a science, it works well. But I think for most of us, we need to have some camaraderie with our colleagues and that’s created in-person.
