Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus

Re:Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work aft... by AndrewKemendo on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:37PM (#23262877)

It's really important to recognize that the current way people are Working From Home does not reflect how WFH works under "normal" circumstances for remote first organizations.

1. Companies have to invest in work from home practices and they have just started to do that. Using zoom and creating more meetings to replace in person experiences is not sufficient.

2. People have in effect just brought work into their home, into a house with no child care and generally no prepared work spaces

So please don't use this period as a reference for what WFH looks like when an organization is dedicated to doing it.

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Re:Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work aft... by macintux on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:24PM (#23268384)

On the other hand, my most negative impressions of WFH have come from environments where a minority of employees are doing it. When a majority is FTF, it’s much harder to manage communications and expectations because so much of the critical information makes it to the remote workers slowly, and they miss out on decision-making opportunities.

So in some ways, the current situation is actually an improvement over a more typical split environment.

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