It’s time to admit that Remote Work doesn’t work
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Guy in high profit position advocates for employee hours being closer to CEO hours.
No matching advocacy for employees getting near his level of pay, however.
You either go full remote and organize yourself around async and better written communication. Or you all sit in the office the whole time and much of the comms is just talk. The in between sucks.
I worked full remote and it works fine. Teams were working well, information flowed, blockers were dealt with. We didn't even use our cameras in meetings. Now I worked for 1 month hybrid and am quitting. This has all the downsides from both remote and on site working.
If you’re remote it works well enough.
If you have an office when you’re in the building it works well enough.
If you have to use the cubes it’s a disaster.
You can hear other people in Zoom meetings all day.
You can hear the other people in your Zoom meetings that are in the office twice.
Of course you may have trouble hearing your meeting anyway due to the other meetings, or people standing around talking.
You can’t grab a meeting room for just you. A bunch of people who are in the same meeting can use a meeting room’s conferencing setup. Unfortunately it works very poorly for people on both sides of the call.
Maybe it would be better with taller/bigger cubes. Or sound deadening foam. Maybe not.
Straight hybrid, without doing anything different to all in office, does not work. And I don’t think many companies would invest that kind of time/capital even if it would improve productivity.
Everyone zoom calls all the time where I can hear other people in other zoom meetings in our zoom meeting. I hate it.
when we worked full remote. We gave a stipend to setup with proper microphone/headphone setup. We requested people to sit in a quiet location for meetings. Worked wonderful...
this hybrid shit just makes everything much worse....
The two are not necessarily mutually-exclusive. What's wrong with scheduling interactions, or simply working asynchronously? Yes, it's a bit slower, but why do we need to rush all the time?
Some jobs require isolation, some require interaction, most require switching between both in a semi-structured semi-stochastic manner, and we can't just decide "work doesn't work" without specifics like... what kind of work, and in what kind of organization.
This is just noise produced by stupid people trying to have a hot take on everything they barely understand. Like politics talk in a pub.