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Seems like the entire WFH/RTO conversation is based around feelings, anecdotes, and personal opinions. For every person saying WFH has been a game changer, you
by qqtt 4y ago
Seems like the entire WFH/RTO conversation is based around feelings, anecdotes, and personal opinions. For every person saying WFH has been a game changer, you have a person saying RTO is essential for some reason or other.
This is one of the few times I've seen the entire tech sector basically collectively raise their hands and give up on any form of data driven analysis, and go whole turkey into personal conviction as the only guiding factor.
This seems like an area ripe for assessing with metrics. FANG companies onboarded hundreds of thousands of employees over the past 2 years, in addition to their existing workforce. And yet, I haven't seen any CEO anywhere give a compelling case one way or the other with data backed conclusions.
This entire conversation just devolves into "trust me bro" anecdotes and personal opinion, even at the CEO level. It is downright bizarre to me.
- nickfromseattle 4y agoThis is a good point. What kind of metrics do you think could be used to evaluate WFH versus in-office productivity? Any initial ideas on the pros & cons of the metrics you would use?
- benatkin 4y agoProbably a good thing to ask ChatGPT.
- nitwit005 4y agoGeneral strategies for how to manage employees have always been driven more by gut feeling and emotion than anything else. People rarely asked for data before adopting "agile" practices, for example. Often they tweaked those practices in ways that would have invalidated any data anyways. They just hopped on a trend.
- notfromhere 4y agoBecause there's no objective way to measure employee productivity in the vast majority of white collar work, and anyone saying otherwise is lying. Most metrics measure indirect proxies to productivity (emails logged, activity, revenue, etc) but its not something you can set a KPI against.