This.
Companies which have offices will out-compete the rate of innovation for remote only.
Marissa Mayer, coming from Google, the first thing she did when she took the helm at Yahoo was reverse the WFH policy because execs realized it was a huge productivity loss.
And with this singular move she went on to restore Yahoo's past glory and made yahoo one of most relevant company in tech world today.
Ok, I missed Yahoo's logo redesign by her. It was the most important thing. Canceling WFH was second.
Re:Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
by bloodorange on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:03PM
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And it's incredible what a brand yahoo has built since then...
Or the cat is out of the bag and people won't be able brush off remote anymore now that it has been demonstrated to work? Companies might be able to push the peons back to the salt mines but it is far from settled at this point.
We’re in the middle of the storm right now. We’ve all been bailing water for 7 months or so, and lots of people think that we’ll be bailing water forever now, even after the storm clears.
I’d wager that within a couple years at most of COVID being squashed, most if not all the companies declaring themselves remote-first and remote-permanent will reverse those policies. Despite the added costs, there are just too many advantages to offices.