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> As a recent article from The Washington Post put it: “They’re still spending most of their time isolated and glued to their computers for Zoom meetings, email

> As a recent article from The Washington Post put it: “They’re still spending most of their time isolated and glued to their computers for Zoom meetings, email, and Slack.” At all companies I have worked for, teams sit together and talk directly. And Meeting rooms are full of people talking face to face. There are also international meetings, but that one are two or three meeting rooms with a team in each one, not people sitting individually. You may like to work from home or not, but this opinion piece is based in the authors personal experience, and it is at least different from mine in all companies I worked for. > Companies currently renting office space are just throwing money away if all of their employees are still doing the same thing at home that they were doing at work. I agree with this sentence, and if your company is doing this you should work from home if you want. I just do not think that it applies so widely as the article suggests.

wetmore 5y ago
They're talking about the new normal, not the way things worked in your past jobs. For a current example, my girlfriend works at a huge corporation and has to return to the office now for at least 1 day a week. While in the office they are told not to hold meetings together, but to Zoom into meetings, even when everyone is in the same building.
- Hokusai 5y ago
  That is not what my company is doing, first time I heard that a company does such a think. I agree that it makes little sense.
- kiawe_fire 5y ago
  I was brought back to the office early September on a one-day-per-week basis to facilitate “face to face” communication. Since then, we’ve had exactly zero in person meetings. We each use Teams even when in the office. The one time I suggested meeting in a conference room, the consensus was “it’s easier to see the presenter’s screen over Teams”. I enjoy talking to my nearby colleagues and having a little adventure one day per week, but it’s clear that the management motivation for this is not in person communication, but stems from the same lack of trust and need to micromanage that prevented frequent WFH in the first place.

wetmore 5y ago

They're talking about the new normal, not the way things worked in your past jobs. For a current example, my girlfriend works at a huge corporation and has to return to the office now for at least 1 day a week. While in the office they are told not to hold meetings together, but to Zoom into meetings, even when everyone is in the same building.

Hokusai 5y ago
That is not what my company is doing, first time I heard that a company does such a think. I agree that it makes little sense.
kiawe_fire 5y ago
I was brought back to the office early September on a one-day-per-week basis to facilitate “face to face” communication. Since then, we’ve had exactly zero in person meetings. We each use Teams even when in the office. The one time I suggested meeting in a conference room, the consensus was “it’s easier to see the presenter’s screen over Teams”. I enjoy talking to my nearby colleagues and having a little adventure one day per week, but it’s clear that the management motivation for this is not in person communication, but stems from the same lack of trust and need to micromanage that prevented frequent WFH in the first place.