Curious to see as it seems to be a trend lately
It’s an excellent opportunity to dust off the resume.
You can pry my work pajamas from my cold dead hands.
Love the work PJs!
Article on Dell from a month ago: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/nearly-half-of-dells-workforce-refused-to-return-to-the-office/
Interesting article. The author cited a study by Stanford claiming that 100% remote work resulted in a small drop in productivity. I’m curious as to how they would determine that. My [annecdotal] experience has been that orgs that are fully in person are completely inept at measuring productivity. Remote work just shines a giant spotlight on existing broken processes.
I would say the same about “culture”. Good culture is highly intentional and dragging a bunch of people into the office for cheap pizza is not “good culture.” In my experience, whether everyone is remote or in person does impact the culture, but that impact is dramatically outweighed by the effort – or lack thereof – by leadership to foster good culture.
Mandatory hybrid 3 days a week.
The rule was unequally applied. Lots of people left. Some got laid off. Many more are looking. No one is happy.
Hybrid. Not happy.
A company I was at tried it and all developers said they’d quit if the policy were introduced. Management backed down really quickly after that.
Hooray for unions, even if informal.
My company made a big push for moving everyone in person last year as long as they were within an hour and a half of one of the offices. Between the 8 people in my department and 12 in another department I work with a lot, this affected no one. Even if it did, my department would only end up with 2 people in the same office, and they have relatively separate jobs.
They were asked several months after the mandate if there was any noticeable or quantifiable increase in productivity, moral, etc… ofc there wasn’t but they said they “felt like it was better” . They also mandated that all new hires will be in person at one specific office… The office that they paid for a very large extension to be built at just before covid and just got completed last year. Go figure.
It was never about productivity, it was always about useless managers needing to act important, and property owners keeping their property value.
Interesting related data point (since there aren’t many answers here yet, and I hope to stir more) - my company embraced remote hiring aggressively and recruited a fantastic batch of talent.
I figured, remote work and all, it would be easy come, easy go. I figured we might lose remote folks as quick as we recruited them. I was wrong.
So far, annecdotaly, our staff attrition rate is significantly below what it was when we hired 100% in-person, all things considered.
I saw this at my last job as well. My division was fully remote and had almost no turnover. We were also very productive, despite relatively poor leadership. Turns out when people like their jobs, they don’t leave.
You guys hiring?
Not in this wave, but right after covid “ended” they wanted us to return to the office. There was some back and forth and since then the agreement is hybrid, at most 60% home office.
Im quite happy with that. I work in-person 2 days a week, but I do embedded so it is often needed to do more. When it makes sense I have 0 problem with doing more days.
We returned to office immediately after the mandate was lifted. I don’t think anyone expected it to be permament, so there was no issue. It just went back to normal.
