Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home?
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#2This is management's opening negotiating position.
In the fight for talent, however, it is not clear that they have the upper hand, because, I, for one, will be more that willing to offer your employee the ability to work from home. I will ask that the team work out an appropriate culture, which probably includes coming to the office at least once a week -- but certainly not on the other hand four days a week.
And I work for a bigco, so either you are going to have to throw even more money at them to show up to your dumb box everyday, or I will win. :)
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#3They’re going to try. A lot of tech “benefits” revolve around quirky office space. When you remove that you have something missing. Furthermore if they didn’t press it, there would probably be an even greater collapse to the real estate market.
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#4They’re going to try. A lot of tech “benefits” revolve around quirky office space. When you remove that you have something missing. Furthermore if they didn’t press it, there would probably be an even greater collapse to the real estate market.
There is no collapse in any real estate markets, at all.
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#5Any sufficiently big company is working remote already, because not all employees fit in one room or even one building.
Working from home is just a small step after that.
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#6They’re going to try. A lot of tech “benefits” revolve around quirky office space. When you remove that you have something missing. Furthermore if they didn’t press it, there would probably be an even greater collapse to the real estate market.
There is no collapse in any real estate markets, at all.
I think he is talking about commercial real estate -- which very well might collapse.
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#7I got the taste of remote work and nothing’s gonna convince me it’s better in the office. Im more productive remotely, I save money on transportation and food, I save time, I am close to my toddler son, I could save the company a lot by not wasting the office space on me and most of all Im an introvert and for a long time I haven’t felt so comfortable. Why change that? I will seek a remote position other place if my company returns to office work.
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#8> Employees were also expected to "live within commuting distance" of offices.
I can't see how the must-be-in-office companies think they win this in the long term.
All the companies that want to poach from FAANG will offer remote work
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#9Any sufficiently big company is working remote already, because not all employees fit in one room or even one building. Working from home is just a small step after that.
I think there is an advantage to having folks in the office one day a week.
The pandemic has shown us that we definitely can work from home - but on the other hand it also sucks to only see your teammates exclusively on zoom.
I think there is room to find a more rational engineering culture that balances the time and carbon from your commute with the fact that we are all human and need some face to face.
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#10Is this really a shock? As far as I know Google never said anything about remote work being the new norm. Certainly some other tech companies like Twitter made more bold statements. But they are in the minority. Seems like most of the large tech companies are planning on heading back the office perhaps with some additional WFH flexibility.