I work remotely but I have space in a shared office about 10 minutes walk from my house. This means I never have to a long commute, can work from home or work around others when I want a bit of company. In terms of working conditions this seems to be the best of both worlds.
This does sound like a good balance. Do you have a dedicated desk or is it just general tables where you setup at? Also how much does it cost per month?
I have a dedicated desk. I'm based in Spain(work is in London) so it's pretty damn cheap! I pay 200 euros a month for a bright, modern office on top of a block in the center of town(Granada). We have a terrace that surrounds the office and the views of the mountains are spectacular!
Do the same thing to them as you do when they're in the office.
Performance management for mobile workers is harder for the manager. There's a lot more metrics and measuring than most "soft skill" managers are comfortable with. And until recently, many managers are selected because of their "face skills" and not their project management chops. There will always be jobs were people will go to a place and work with other people (McDonald's, Prisons, Hospitals.) But there will be a…
In general, predicting that something that has been around for centuries will be gone in decades is a bad bet. I wonder if Richard Branson has ever spent long periods of time working alone. I spent six months working remotely in 2004. What led me to start my company in 2005 was not the desire to make money; I had enough back then. I really missed the in-person interaction with other hackers. I was living in Buenos Ai…
It wasn't much more than century ago when the majority of the population did work from home (on the farm). It really has only been decades that the office has been the primary place of business. To see working patterns shift back to "the farm", so to speak, doesn't seem unreasonable at all in my mind. It probably will not completely eliminate the office, but we could see only, say, 10-20% of the population still work…
Also as one tries to take a higher level view of the office, one of the conclusions could be that up until now the primary goal of the office was to offer shared access to some central resource as it was impossible to offer this resource (wahtever that might be) outside of some central location. Now given the global connectivity this shared resource(s) are most often avaialbe globaly as well, and the question becomes evident more and more each day as to why keep the office anymore...Why do the 'kolhoz' if everybody can have their own farm now.