Working from home is a sham. It doesn't work. It's just a way to enable lazy people to keep on coasting.
If you're dedicated to the job and want to be a team player, go to the office.
If you're dedicated to the job and want to be a team player, go to the office.
If your firm’s hiring process has inadvertently optimized for #1 then WFH will not work. If the firm has managed to find enough #3, then RTO will damage company productivity.
Ironically, the fact that Apple was able to make the migration from PowerPC to Intel back in the day was because they gave a #3 type employee a special exemption to WFH.
One of the things remote-first companies are going to need to do is to migrate from interviews that are centered around “what you know” to “show me you can get stuff done”
I exchange my time, skills and knowledge for money. If the company wants that time to be spent sitting on a chair at a particular location, they need to pay me more than one that does not.
I feel sorry for people like you who make their job their life. The company has no dedication to you.
Virtual meetings and collaboration platforms are but tools to achieve that. An event better tool is working next to your colleagues to enable more synergy between the various initiatives people are working on organically.
As someone dedicated to your company's mission, you should want to use the best tool for the job.
The fact that you can't believe anyone would have the discipline to do their job without someone looking over their shoulder says far more about you than about remote workers.