Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
“Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative,” Mr Hastings told the Wall Street Journal.
Doesn't ACTUALLY mean "managers not being able to micromanage by proxy of physical presence is a pure negative", because in lived experience this has been at the root of much resistance to WFH in my career: managerial loss of control and influence
Going freelancing internationally finally shut them up.
Not needing to factor in commuting when choosing where to live is a godsend.
for those interested, care to mention a few of your solutions?
For colleagues that I'm not directly working with but want to stay in contact with, I'll email them at least every few months with any interesting problems that I solved as well as the approach that are might be of interest to them. On my team, we'll regularly do tech surveys for advancing areas of our project, and the results of them will also get sent out. I also know their interests, and if I come across something they might like, I won't hesitate to send it their way.
It's really easy to buckle down and only address what's in front of your nose. But people get weird when that goes on too long. Better to take a break a couple times a week and check in with everyone else. I find that our morning scrum isn't enough.
I mean even Reed Hastings, the subject of the article, fails to enumerate the downsides he sees to remote working. Without hard - and frankly much wider ranging - evidence this is just one man's opinion and it's not a particularly interesting or insightful one either.
Maybe for you, bossman.
I would think there is a correlation between the amount of wfh across the world and Netflix viewership.
Even if marginal cost is very low, each streamed video have some small cost associated with it. Is it really worth it to try and increase my viewing, as long as it's high enough?
(Conversely, will people really get Netflix subscriptions just because they are WFH, if they din't have them already?)
"Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects"
Excluding it gives a false impression this is something more than a self interested opinion.
(Politics is even more this way...)
Seriously though: as with everything else, your mileage may vary (YMMV). Some people and companies are doing great with it and making it permanent. Others are experiencing issues. It has to do with what you are doing and the personalities in your organization.