Regarding the Happy Hours: In 2019, my team would occasionally need to work long hours or would deliver something awesome. I would reward them with HH and dinner/late meal. It gave me a chance to say "thanks" and for us to bond over the challenge we overcame. I can't do that anymore! I've don't virtual HH, but it isn't the same! I would REALLY like a virtual solution to "bond with your team" and "say thanks in a mean…
Custom Team Portraits are also a nice personal thoughtful touch. Either sprinkled around the office and/or at home: https://POPteam.io
Hard disagree.
There is nothing nice, personal, or thoughtful about a photograph of my coworkers.
As a manager, I would expect to be laughed at (with a healthy team, to my face; with a dysfunctional team, behind my back) for such an idea.
Classic comment missing the point that not everyone needs or wants the social interaction with their work mates.
Not everyone of course, and one should be attentive to and accommodating of teammates that feel that way. But surely “let’s knock off at three today and go down the pub, thanks for all the hard work” is a positive for most people?
Not for me. If I'm not working i'd rather do my hobbies, excercise, be with my friends or gf. And I dont enjoy sitting in a pub. I'll be more than glad to take a walk with a co-worker. Play some sports together etc, but I really really don't want to feel like I am doing a mandatory activity with my job. Either I am working or not.
"Here’s my proposal: organizations that allow remote work should not only encourage these employees to find professional spaces near (but distinct from) their homes—they should also directly subsidize these cognitive escapes. The cost need not be prohibitive. If we turn back to our author examples, we see that a workspace doesn’t need to be aesthetically pleasing, or well-equipped, or air-conditioned (or even have wa…
It's all fun and games until someone leaves a laptop in one of these places out of complacency and it gets stolen.
I think we will soon see a dip in productivity.whenever assessing trends, you should never base conclusions on outlier events and we are basing too much of the wfh success on this past year. A year when you couldn't go out and do things, when people feared for their jobs amid a global crisis and felt a call of duty to keep on working.
Yeah, imagine if people could do the stuff that they were not allowed to this past year, and so many things had not been postponed. Productivity would be through many roofs
I’m hoping all of these pent up “forced” WFH complainers can go back into an office, personally.
One of the biggest stressors in my working life is that all of that time spent in an office with coworkers is time NOT spent with my “actual” family that I live and breathe for. All the time wasted commuting, all the energy Ive lost trying to fit into extroverted work cultures only to return to my family drained and unable to appreciate them - Ive regained that by being enabled to work from home.
Once people who cleary dont appreciate WFH can go back into their physical office spaces and get back to socializing as a first priority, there will be more opportunities for people lile me who genuinely appreciate WFH to be had.
Different stokes for different folks. To me, WFH purely means I avoid my crushing 2.5hr-each-way commute. If my employer built an office next to my house, I'd happily go to the office every day. Or even better, if my employer built an office in a cheaper cost-of-living area like the Nevada desert, I could move to a trailer there and happily go to the office every day. I'm not enamored with my home office. I don't rea…
May I ask how you came to live 2.5 hours away? Are you not able to move closer? Is rent too expensive closer?
Living in any decent size single family home closer to work in the Bay Area is punishingly expensive. I'm not willing to downgrade the family's living conditions by moving to a vertical shoebox (townhome) or concrete honeycomb (apartment complex) in order to do it. The crushing commute is a trade-off, and I would jump at the opportunity to not have to make that trade-off.
As long as I still have a quiet, private office and don't spend an hour+ per day in traffic and am not expected to give up evenings for "not mandatory but really you should show up to play politics" office happy hours, I don't care where I work. Currently working from home gives me all of that and I haven't been happier with a job ever.
Imagine - taking a 20 min nap in your lunch break - doing a set of push-ups between phone calls - cooking your own meal at lunch - giving a hug to your partner - having your pet in the room with you - not listening to your coworkers noises - 3 x 7 minute yoga sessions - a 20 min power walk while on the phone - zero driving, waiting, zero miles on your car, zero car accidents guaranteed (where I live people spend 10h…
Not to mention saving on car insurance and gas, getting sick less often, etc..
How so? There is way more stuff to do in the city, than in rural Ohio (for example), friendliness is very subjective, if you are "one of them" then yes, they will be nice to you, if you look different, then things change. More space? duh, there is a reason no one wants to live there. Less people == less crime and violence (most of the time). Less noise, yeah, thats true.
If you are one for the Night Life, bars, events, etc then sure pre-covid and maybe post covid the city was for you. For many people however "City Life" was for economic reality, that is where the work is, so that is where they were. They did not care about "night life", hated having to shop daily for groceries, etc etc "Boring" suburban life is appealing to ALOT of people, boring life where the most exciting thing th…
That is just not true , at least in the US. Minorities and immigrants are treated considerably worst in rural areas than in the cities. I get some people want to live in the country. As I said , most people like to interact with other human beings, outside the Sunday church gathering. Being from a rural town in the US doesn't make an outsider in any city, I would say the other way around is correct, the city is big enough you can find a bar where your country fellas go, people who "hate the city", what really hate is diversity, competition and civility(with exceptions). In the other hand, a family of asian immigrants, for example, will have a hard time, in a white evangelical small town anywhere in the US.
If you are one for the Night Life, bars, events, etc then sure pre-covid and maybe post covid the city was for you. For many people however "City Life" was for economic reality, that is where the work is, so that is where they were. They did not care about "night life", hated having to shop daily for groceries, etc etc "Boring" suburban life is appealing to ALOT of people, boring life where the most exciting thing th…
That is just not true , at least in the US. Minorities and immigrants are treated considerably worst in rural areas than in the cities. I get some people want to live in the country. As I said , most people like to interact with other human beings, outside the Sunday church gathering. Being from a rural town in the US doesn't make an outsider in any city, I would say the other way around is correct, the city is big e…
This is not my experience, there is plenty of area's in cities where outsiders will be mugged, beaten, or other wise treated terribly.
This idea that only white people treat minorities badly is insane and not fit with actual realty (and is actually racist )