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My company is planning on moving to 4 days in, one day optionally remote near the end of the summer. It sounds like google will return to the office as well [0]

My company is planning on moving to 4 days in, one day optionally remote near the end of the summer. It sounds like google will return to the office as well [0]. I think its tough to define a permissive WFH policy when there are some individuals that don't work from home well and have had issues with productivity while working remotely this past year or so. I don't think there would be an easy/drama free way to require some individuals to come to the office more often while letting others come in less often without severely impacting morale for those that were required to come in. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/14/google-ceo-email-delays-return-to-sept-2021-no-permanent-remote-work.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/14/google-ceo-email-delays-retu...

zmmmmm 5y ago
> when there are some individuals that don't work from home well The interesting question is, will this ultimately become an expectation and if you "don't work from home well" then that's equivalent to simply "not working well". There are individuals who don't work well in an office and they were previously just considered poor employees. Now the tables are turned ...
- bostonsre 5y ago
  Yea, I could definitely see that becoming a new requirement. Wondering how you would go about trying to tease out how well someone works remotely versus in the office... Really early in my career, I recall being incredibly unmotivated after an acquisition by a private equity company and the subsequent cost cutting. Going to the office was just some check box that I needed to cross off in order to get a pay check. When I did work remotely, I found myself somehow being even less motivated and doing less work. If I had to identify key traits to figure out whether or not someone could work well remotely, I would probably try to understand their motivation level and their desire to grow, learn, and execute. But I guess that wouldn't be too far off from what I look for now when I interview.
baby 5y ago
I don't believe that Google will do a return to the office, they have too many employees who would rather quit. Wait for it...
- skohan 5y ago
  I wonder if there's a correlation between those who are most anti-office, and people who have barely any actual work to do.
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  - bostonsre 5y ago
    I bet Google collected a ton of really interesting data and made their decision based off of that. Would be interesting to know whether they had enough metrics to show that definitively as well as just how much less productive employees were when remote (am assuming they were less productive, I don't see how they could push everyone back to the office if the productivity numbers were better).
  - baby 5y ago
    Wishful thinking.

zmmmmm 5y ago

> when there are some individuals that don't work from home well The interesting question is, will this ultimately become an expectation and if you "don't work from home well" then that's equivalent to simply "not working well". There are individuals who don't work well in an office and they were previously just considered poor employees. Now the tables are turned ...

bostonsre 5y ago
Yea, I could definitely see that becoming a new requirement. Wondering how you would go about trying to tease out how well someone works remotely versus in the office... Really early in my career, I recall being incredibly unmotivated after an acquisition by a private equity company and the subsequent cost cutting. Going to the office was just some check box that I needed to cross off in order to get a pay check. When I did work remotely, I found myself somehow being even less motivated and doing less work. If I had to identify key traits to figure out whether or not someone could work well remotely, I would probably try to understand their motivation level and their desire to grow, learn, and execute. But I guess that wouldn't be too far off from what I look for now when I interview.

baby 5y ago

I don't believe that Google will do a return to the office, they have too many employees who would rather quit. Wait for it...

skohan 5y ago
I wonder if there's a correlation between those who are most anti-office, and people who have barely any actual work to do.
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- bostonsre 5y ago
  I bet Google collected a ton of really interesting data and made their decision based off of that. Would be interesting to know whether they had enough metrics to show that definitively as well as just how much less productive employees were when remote (am assuming they were less productive, I don't see how they could push everyone back to the office if the productivity numbers were better).
- baby 5y ago
  Wishful thinking.