Re:Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG
by rwmj on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:47AM
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Once you have more than one office and teams split between them, you have to adopt practices which look a lot like WFH, such as putting conversations online, communicating asynchronously, and avoiding in-person-only meetings. Even if you made me go into my local office, there is literally one other person there who is on my team versus two dozen others around the world. Our WFH working method would not change discernibly.
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Re:Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG
by ghaff on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:43AM
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I assume that many people here are with smaller companies or at least at companies where almost everyone they interact with is in a single location. That hasn't been the case with me for years. I'm basically never on a call of any size (including with my immediate team) where everyone would be in the same office (even if we were in the offices where we technically sit). I'm about to hop on a call where, even in normal times, there would be a mix of remote, two different US offices, and two different European offices. And that's absolutely the norm.
Re:Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG
by matwood on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:05AM
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When I first started WFH almost 15 years ago, this was the exact conversation I had with my boss at the time. Video chat wasn't as big of deal then, so most calls were on the phone. Even though I ended up moving 2 time zones away, I kept my work hours the same, and it took almost a year before co-workers I interacted with regularly even knew I moved.