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My workplace is 80% remote, but not in the way you might think. Just about everyone works from home 4 days a week, and comes into the office one day. It expan
by Klathmon 10y ago
My workplace is 80% remote, but not in the way you might think.
Just about everyone works from home 4 days a week, and comes into the office one day.
It expands the hiring pool by a pretty significant amount, one of our devs is 2 hours away (4 hours round trip, and he still commutes less than his wife does every week), it lets us get a lot of the "face to face" benefits done in one day, and the rest of the time is remote.
We do also have a couple fully remote, and a couple "always in office".
It works out nice though as we tend to remember to include the "always remote" people on our in office day because most of us know how much it sucks getting left out.
- ylhert 10y agoIMO this is a great tradeoff and in some ways an ideal work environment!
- maxxxxx 10y agoThis seems a great compromise. In my company there is a team that works similarly. They come in one day per week or one week per month.
- jgrant27 10y agoThis actually sounds workable. One other thing that is clear is that a 5-day onsite 40 hour work-week is not productive. IMO a 4-day week split between office and home would be way more productive.
- hash-set 10y agoI don't know where you live, but the stress of commuting alone has led me to want to get out of the business. Companies have got to smarten up! There's no earthly reason why dedicated knowledge workers need to be on some cube farm or stupid newsroom office every day. It sucks.