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Good. This remote work revolution has had a dramatic effect on diversity in a positive way. My company’s learnings have been that it’s easier to hire a diverse
by wayoutthere 5y ago
Good. This remote work revolution has had a dramatic effect on diversity in a positive way. My company’s learnings have been that it’s easier to hire a diverse workforce remotely, and our revenue and margin numbers have never been higher.
We’ve gone from “oh it’s our culture, we can’t wait to get everyone back in the office” to realizing we had hired almost half of the current employees in the company since the pandemic started so we moved on to consolidating office leases.
There is no going back to the “old ways” because we had simply grown too much for anyone but the tenured folks to remember. And we can grow faster because we’re primarily remote — we plan to hire about 2,000 people next year, 50% more than we had planned pre-pandemic (which should be a huge red flag for anyone looking to force employees back — they’re not bluffing about remote jobs being plentiful and we have lower overhead so we pay more.)
All of our work is collaborative. It’s actually far easier to be collaborative at scale if everyone is virtual; just the only baseline anyone had was when the bosses and half the workers were in the same room. Sure, the bosses felt good, but half your team was underutilized. The collaboration angle is absolute BS.
- stantaylor 5y ago> we had simply grown too much for anyone but the tenured folks to remember The institutional memory part fascinates me. Currently, some people lament the lack of proverbial BSing around the water cooler. In a few years, nobody will even know that was a thing or at least a thing that was valued.
- wayoutthere 5y agoHonestly? My relationships with coworkers and employees is way better remotely because I have to make a conscious effort to get to know them. I can’t rely on the lazy solution of passively seeing someone every day.
- aerosmile 5y agoThis was the main argument against social networking back in the day. "If I want to talk to someone, I'll pick up the phone and have a quality conversation." People are abandoning Facebook for a number of poor product and business decisions on Facebook's part, but we did learn that there's a difference between the opt-in and opt-out communication channels.
- wayoutthere 5y agoThat’s exactly why I left social media about 5 years ago. I realized I wasn’t actually friends with anyone who popped up on my timeline; they were all just people I used to know posting imaginary versions of their lives. Facebook deludes you into thinking you have friends when what you really have is a void to shout your feelings into and hope someone listens.
- javier2 5y agoMaybe you made it then. Most places I see only recreated the office-from-home, failing to actually create a culture of remote work.