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Pre-COVID employees were treated like children who had to ask for permission to not be in the office. The freedom of WFH during COVID was intoxicating for a whi
by voisin 3y ago
Pre-COVID employees were treated like children who had to ask for permission to not be in the office. The freedom of WFH during COVID was intoxicating for a while, but I think both ends of the spectrum are unhealthy and hybrid is the only way forward. There is no doubt in my mind that WFH adds friction to varying degrees depending on the organization and role, but there is always friction. The degree of friction should dictate the level of hybrid.
I suspect the range will be 2 to 3 days a week in the office and very few will be more or less.
I am exhausted by the people on the outer edges of the range arguing that their preference is the one true path and that nothing else is acceptable. Just because it (WFH or WFO) works for you doesn’t mean it works for your team, your division, your company, your customers, etc. Stop being selfish and accept a compromise in the middle that strikes the right balance of freedom.
- trowawee 3y agoHybrid is the worst of both worlds. You still have to live close enough to the office to get there without an insane commute, so you don't get the "live where you want" benefits of fully remote, but you also have to have enough space in your house to work, so you lose the "home is home and work is work" benefits of working in an office. Plus, unless office and WFH days are rigorously coordinated (which destroys any "flexibility"), you're still going to spend a bunch of time in the office on zoom calls with people who are WFH. It's wild to me that this is being suggested as a compromise. Hybrid just guarantees a baseline level of misery for everyone.
- voisin 3y ago> You still have to live close enough to the office to get there without an insane commute, so you don't get the "live where you want" benefits of fully remote I just absolutely marvel at this attitude, like it is such a massive put-out to have any form of inconvenience by the entity paying you. The entitlement in this industry is going to bite a lot of people in the ass.
- trowawee 3y agoI was just pointing out why your suggestion that hybrid work is a solution was a dumb idea because it's the worst of both worlds, but you appear committed to a willful misreading of my comment, so...have a great day!