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Couldn't the reverse be said for folks wanting to WFH? Everyone who wants to come into the office has to change their communication style to something that is o

Couldn't the reverse be said for folks wanting to WFH? Everyone who wants to come into the office has to change their communication style to something that is often less convenient. I think there are pros and cons to both and we will probably end up with some companies (or parts of companies) that specialize either way. I think it's perfectly fine for some folks to prefer working in an office with most/all of their coworkers.

emaginniss 5y ago
I assume you're the person who walks up to my desk and begins a conversation without taking into account how busy I am or how much I'm concentrating on my task. Having you separated from me by slack and zoom instead of a cube partition has made me much happier.
- tuckerman 5y ago
  I'm not and I wouldn't presume folks that enjoy working in the office are all like that. At least from a lot of folks I've spoken to at different companies (not speaking about any Google survey here. opinions/anecdotes are my own), it seems like a sizeable portion of the staff wants to be in the office ~3 days per week. I think that there are a lot of folks that want fully remote but they tend to be much more vocal than people quite content with 3-2. Either way, I'd recommend you try and find a company that supports your work style and I'll find one that supports mine. Not every company has to be everything to everyone and I think that's okay.
  - ghaff 5y ago
    >it seems like a sizable portion of the staff wants to be in the office ~3 days per week That's pretty consistent with a number of surveys I've seen. We'll probably see more people fully remote at the end of the day but most aren't moving to mountain towns and, if they weren't fully remote before, they mostly won't be after. (And I suspect that a lot of the new "officially" remote workers were de facto mostly remote before. I'm one of those. I was assigned to an office but I even gave up my desk the last time there was a furniture reconfiguration.)
ghaff 5y ago
Everything I've seen suggests that even in-office is going to be pretty hybrid. While teams will probably coordinate to some degree, I do expect that there will be more dialing in from desks than going into conference rooms going forward. And, frankly, at larger companies you mostly have people dialing in from a number of different offices and other locations anyway. These calls really work better when everyone is on their own line even if they're in the office.

emaginniss 5y ago

I assume you're the person who walks up to my desk and begins a conversation without taking into account how busy I am or how much I'm concentrating on my task. Having you separated from me by slack and zoom instead of a cube partition has made me much happier.

tuckerman 5y ago
I'm not and I wouldn't presume folks that enjoy working in the office are all like that. At least from a lot of folks I've spoken to at different companies (not speaking about any Google survey here. opinions/anecdotes are my own), it seems like a sizeable portion of the staff wants to be in the office ~3 days per week. I think that there are a lot of folks that want fully remote but they tend to be much more vocal than people quite content with 3-2. Either way, I'd recommend you try and find a company that supports your work style and I'll find one that supports mine. Not every company has to be everything to everyone and I think that's okay.
- ghaff 5y ago
  >it seems like a sizable portion of the staff wants to be in the office ~3 days per week That's pretty consistent with a number of surveys I've seen. We'll probably see more people fully remote at the end of the day but most aren't moving to mountain towns and, if they weren't fully remote before, they mostly won't be after. (And I suspect that a lot of the new "officially" remote workers were de facto mostly remote before. I'm one of those. I was assigned to an office but I even gave up my desk the last time there was a furniture reconfiguration.)

ghaff 5y ago

Everything I've seen suggests that even in-office is going to be pretty hybrid. While teams will probably coordinate to some degree, I do expect that there will be more dialing in from desks than going into conference rooms going forward. And, frankly, at larger companies you mostly have people dialing in from a number of different offices and other locations anyway. These calls really work better when everyone is on their own line even if they're in the office.