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You describe my ideal hybrid schedule. I don’t miss being in the office Monday through Thursday at all, but I really miss Fridays in the office. In my experien

You describe my ideal hybrid schedule. I don’t miss being in the office Monday through Thursday at all, but I really miss Fridays in the office. In my experience, remote work typically has no direct productivity downsides, but team cohesion absolutely can take a hit. I find being in the same room with someone doesn’t help us work any better, but having been in the same room with them at some point (ideally not all that long ago) absolutely does, likely even more so having had a beer with them.

Hermitian909 5y ago
> In my experience, remote work typically has no direct productivity downsides, but team cohesion absolutely can take a hit I'm sure this varies based on the type of work you're doing, but I found the hit to team cohesion led to long term productivity losses. At first we were getting more done than ever. As time went on our raw work output day-to-day did not decrease but a lot of unneeded work that previously would have been headed off at planning and discussion stages would get through. This was on a team that is specifically doing speculative high risk/reward work so that might be applicable to a lot fewer people than I imagine.
- alecbz 5y ago
  > the hit to team cohesion led to long term productivity losses It obviously ought to, right, or else why does (should) anyone care about team cohesion in the first place?
  - Sebb767 5y ago
    Keeping your people happy does not only impact your productivity, but it also impacts motivation (people who love their job are more likely to try and improve beyond their job), the overall churn and, as a second-order effect, even stuff like hiring or wages. Of course, in the end this all affects the company productivity, but it's really not as straight-forward [0] as the productivity of a single team. [0] "straight forward" is a bit of an overstatement for measuring team productivity, but that's a different discussion.

Hermitian909 5y ago

> In my experience, remote work typically has no direct productivity downsides, but team cohesion absolutely can take a hit I'm sure this varies based on the type of work you're doing, but I found the hit to team cohesion led to long term productivity losses. At first we were getting more done than ever. As time went on our raw work output day-to-day did not decrease but a lot of unneeded work that previously would have been headed off at planning and discussion stages would get through. This was on a team that is specifically doing speculative high risk/reward work so that might be applicable to a lot fewer people than I imagine.

alecbz 5y ago
> the hit to team cohesion led to long term productivity losses It obviously ought to, right, or else why does (should) anyone care about team cohesion in the first place?
- Sebb767 5y ago
  Keeping your people happy does not only impact your productivity, but it also impacts motivation (people who love their job are more likely to try and improve beyond their job), the overall churn and, as a second-order effect, even stuff like hiring or wages. Of course, in the end this all affects the company productivity, but it's really not as straight-forward [0] as the productivity of a single team. [0] "straight forward" is a bit of an overstatement for measuring team productivity, but that's a different discussion.