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I think we're gonna see a lot of companies move towards predominately in office work at least a few days a week, while having some specific teams working remote

I think we're gonna see a lot of companies move towards predominately in office work at least a few days a week, while having some specific teams working remotely full time to satisfy the people who want to do that. I think in general, a lot of people are going to prefer a 3/2 hybrid of wfh for software positions. Im personally pretty excited to go back to the office, as Ive found myself hating wfh quite a bit.

randycupertino 5y ago
We had hybrid and hot desking before COVID and it was a bit of a pain to deal with. - the hot desks never had the correct dock stations for people's laptops, or "good" chairs had been stolen and left with the sketchy one with the broken wheel. - The people you actually need to talk with will naturally come into the office on a completely different schedule, so they'll only have one overlap day with you. - Everybody else will need to talk with them too, so it'll be impossible to get face time when you're in the office and everybody will be pissed off at each other because of all the meetings. - All business will get done on zoom those other two days.
- thebigman433 5y ago
  Yea Im personally not a fan of hybrid work if you have a team oriented job, but I think a lot of people will insist on it for at least a while. I think some places might make it work, but overall people will trend back towards wanting to go into the office. The consensus opinion on HN of people wanting to stay remote is not generally the most popular from what Ive found talking to "normal" people.
- anothernewdude 5y ago
  Schedule? Why are you coming to work on a schedule that isn't "when I have meetings with people I need to see"? It's this arbitrary crap that makes good work practices go bad.
refurb 5y ago
I work for a small office and one idea thrown around was get rid of the office entirely. Cheaper to just rent a conference room as needed for team meetings. WeWork revival?
- thebigman433 5y ago
  I think we'll definitely see a small rise in rented office space like that as well as retreat type areas for companies to rent a place for a week or two to crunch or work out things that need special attention
twobitshifter 5y ago
I think hybrid is a false compromise which will be worse than wfh or fully in office but it will serve its purpose to management as a step towards fully back in the office.

randycupertino 5y ago

We had hybrid and hot desking before COVID and it was a bit of a pain to deal with. - the hot desks never had the correct dock stations for people's laptops, or "good" chairs had been stolen and left with the sketchy one with the broken wheel. - The people you actually need to talk with will naturally come into the office on a completely different schedule, so they'll only have one overlap day with you. - Everybody else will need to talk with them too, so it'll be impossible to get face time when you're in the office and everybody will be pissed off at each other because of all the meetings. - All business will get done on zoom those other two days.

thebigman433 5y ago
Yea Im personally not a fan of hybrid work if you have a team oriented job, but I think a lot of people will insist on it for at least a while. I think some places might make it work, but overall people will trend back towards wanting to go into the office. The consensus opinion on HN of people wanting to stay remote is not generally the most popular from what Ive found talking to "normal" people.
anothernewdude 5y ago
Schedule? Why are you coming to work on a schedule that isn't "when I have meetings with people I need to see"? It's this arbitrary crap that makes good work practices go bad.

refurb 5y ago

I work for a small office and one idea thrown around was get rid of the office entirely. Cheaper to just rent a conference room as needed for team meetings. WeWork revival?

thebigman433 5y ago
I think we'll definitely see a small rise in rented office space like that as well as retreat type areas for companies to rent a place for a week or two to crunch or work out things that need special attention

twobitshifter 5y ago

I think hybrid is a false compromise which will be worse than wfh or fully in office but it will serve its purpose to management as a step towards fully back in the office.