Remote work may not be working anymore

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The marketplace will probably decide this. Some companies will be backwards looking and some will be forward looking. We’ll see over the next couple of years who is more successful getting and retaining workers and bring products to market.

And if “office” means open seating, single room, lots of distractions, I’ll bet on alternatives. Perhaps the best companies will split the differences: flexible work schedules and real offices.

This is the part that gets me. I am currently in hybrid mode. The company officially says there are not enough desks to house us all at the same time. There is zero practical reason for me to be there physically ( I don't have customer contact, I don't train people, I don't talk to executives ). And yet, WFH is somehow made into a bad word.

And then the same people who suggest WFH is full of distractions ("Time spent on coordination activities and meetings increased, while uninterrupted work hours shrank considerably."), ignore the same issues with in-office settings.

It is not about WFH or productivity. It is about doing things as they have always been done.

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