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There was a point in my life where I craved working in the office also and seeing people who also wanted to be there. And now I can't imagine going back to one.
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
There was a point in my life where I craved working in the office also and seeing people who also wanted to be there. And now I can't imagine going back to one.
I miss nice offices though. Before the whole let's stack people side by side on desks, rather than give them some nicer spaces with lots of room for deep thought. When I was working for HARC, we had a nice former industrial space near UCLA. I totally could go for that, but when the only way to get something semi-nice and private is to work at home, well, that is going to bias people.
- codr7 2y agoThis touches on the core of the problem. The only thing that changed is you can no longer force people to the same degree. One alternative would be to design offices that people like to work in.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoWant me to work in the office? Offer me an office with a door.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoYes, studies show people are more likely to want to come into the office if they have a nice office to come into. But what's the point of paying say half a million/year for an engineer if you also have to give them a nice space to be productive in? Anyways, it isn't a mystery why people want to work at home these days, and they don't really need to be in the office anyways considering how hard it is to get conference rooms to VC all the time with your partners across the country or world.
- hadlock 2y agoI would definitely go in to the office 5 days a week if I had an office with a door and lock on it.