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The problem with “let everyone work wherever they want” is that there are a lot of real challenges with having some people working remote and some not. I remem

The problem with “let everyone work wherever they want” is that there are a lot of real challenges with having some people working remote and some not. I remember a saying my old boss told me when we were hiring remote workers; “if one team member is remote, everyone is remote”. In order for the team to work well, you have to move almost all interactions online or the remote worker is going to miss out. If decisions are made in person, the remote worker won’t be part of them. You have to have the discussions online anyway, even if most of the people are in office. Plus, most companies aren’t going to want to maintain an office, with all the expenses that entails, if most people aren’t going to be there.

KronisLV 4y ago
> I remember a saying my old boss told me when we were hiring remote workers; “if one team member is remote, everyone is remote”. In order for the team to work well, you have to move almost all interactions online or the remote worker is going to miss out. If decisions are made in person, the remote worker won’t be part of them. You have to have the discussions online anyway, even if most of the people are in office. This is a good observation and probably sometimes the decision to have everyone work remotely vs in office will be made at an org level. Some will be okay with that, some will resign because it's not their preferred mode of work and others will remain working there but will be miserable for some time, which is unfortunate. Also, I've seen some try to do remote work while still trying to work primarily with sync communication, which actually urged me to create this site: https://quick-answers.kronis.dev/ https://quick-answers.kronis.dev/ Of course, in regards to remote work in particular, there are also guides like GitLab had, it's just that not everyone will mesh well with such a culture, ergo needing to find a good fit: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifest... > Plus, most companies aren’t going to want to maintain an office, with all the expenses that entails, if most people aren’t going to be there. I'm not sure about this, I've heard some explain that orgs want to maintain their property value, which isn't as nice if the buildings are completely empty and thus are urging workers to come back into the offices. That didn't make an awful lot of sense to me, or maybe I misunderstood the argument, but I can also see some benefits of having an office location. Of course, some try to have offices that have the capacity smaller than the total workforce, accounting for not everyone being in office 100% of the time, which has the benefit of being such a location without being overly expensive, but some have described a setup with no assigned seating kind of sub-optimal. There's lots of details to be explored in regards to the whole topic, it seems!
- cortesoft 4y ago
  > I'm not sure about this, I've heard some explain that orgs want to maintain their property value I imagine this would only apply to the minority of very large companies that own their offices. Most companies lease.

KronisLV 4y ago

> I remember a saying my old boss told me when we were hiring remote workers; “if one team member is remote, everyone is remote”. In order for the team to work well, you have to move almost all interactions online or the remote worker is going to miss out. If decisions are made in person, the remote worker won’t be part of them. You have to have the discussions online anyway, even if most of the people are in office. This is a good observation and probably sometimes the decision to have everyone work remotely vs in office will be made at an org level. Some will be okay with that, some will resign because it's not their preferred mode of work and others will remain working there but will be miserable for some time, which is unfortunate. Also, I've seen some try to do remote work while still trying to work primarily with sync communication, which actually urged me to create this site: https://quick-answers.kronis.dev/ https://quick-answers.kronis.dev/ Of course, in regards to remote work in particular, there are also guides like GitLab had, it's just that not everyone will mesh well with such a culture, ergo needing to find a good fit: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifest... > Plus, most companies aren’t going to want to maintain an office, with all the expenses that entails, if most people aren’t going to be there. I'm not sure about this, I've heard some explain that orgs want to maintain their property value, which isn't as nice if the buildings are completely empty and thus are urging workers to come back into the offices. That didn't make an awful lot of sense to me, or maybe I misunderstood the argument, but I can also see some benefits of having an office location. Of course, some try to have offices that have the capacity smaller than the total workforce, accounting for not everyone being in office 100% of the time, which has the benefit of being such a location without being overly expensive, but some have described a setup with no assigned seating kind of sub-optimal. There's lots of details to be explored in regards to the whole topic, it seems!

cortesoft 4y ago
> I'm not sure about this, I've heard some explain that orgs want to maintain their property value I imagine this would only apply to the minority of very large companies that own their offices. Most companies lease.