Shouldn’t Netflix be in favor of remote work for business purposes?
I would think there is a correlation between the amount of wfh across the world and Netflix viewership.
Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
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Re: Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
#22Shouldn’t Netflix be in favor of remote work for business purposes? I would think there is a correlation between the amount of wfh across the world and Netflix viewership.
Interesting OT question: How much does Netflix care about user "engagement"? Surely there is data at Netflix HQ, but I guess there isn't a linear correlation between viewed minutes and canceled subscriptions. If you use Netflix "enough" for it to feel as a nice thing to have available and not cancel the subscription, I guess Netflix is happy?
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?)
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#23Sorry Reid, but I'll never set foot in an office again. Working 100% remote saves me way too much time, not to mention money, and I've long since sorted out staying connected work colleagues (I've been working 100% remote for ~6 years). Not needing to factor in commuting when choosing where to live is a godsend.
>I've long since sorted out staying connected work colleagues (I've been working 100% remote for ~6 years).
for those interested, care to mention a few of your solutions?
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#24Sorry Reid, but I'll never set foot in an office again. Working 100% remote saves me way too much time, not to mention money, and I've long since sorted out staying connected work colleagues (I've been working 100% remote for ~6 years). Not needing to factor in commuting when choosing where to live is a godsend.
>I've long since sorted out staying connected work colleagues (I've been working 100% remote for ~6 years). for those interested, care to mention a few of your solutions?
A big one as been making it a point to contact everyone on the team regularly, even if there's nothing urgent to discuss. This could be via email or video chat. If there's no programmatic reason to chat, I'll surely have come across some new tidbit of information or insight that's at least tangentially related to work and use that as an excuse. One of the dudes I'm working with is a far better C++ coder than me, so I'm regularly asking him questions, but I'm also mentoring some junior engineers, and I'll reach out to point out things to them.
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.
Re: Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
#25The thing is: At more hours viewing Netflix shows, there is more chance get the feel of "have seen all" and then cancel the subscription.
Re: Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
#26He didn't say that there are negative effects but that he sees no positives. Surely anyone who's carefully considered a position would be able to point out at least some positives.
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#27Well, of course the experience of the netflix leader is starkly different from everybody elses. So his day is spend having to give a go for project or in general listening to ideas. Since he also depends on kategorizing people quickly he is hindered by videoconferencing. An videokonferencing all day certainly has its downsides. For other jobs, it says nothing. What a waste of my time.
Re: Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
#28He didn't say that there are negative effects but that he sees no positives . Surely anyone who's carefully considered a position would be able to point out at least some positives.
FTA: "No. I don't see any positives," he replied