‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect

Re:‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans t... by zffr on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:02PM (#27692292)

IMO what's great about slack is that you can send someone a message and they can choose to respond whenever they're free. If async communication is too slow, you can always ask do to a zoom call for a few min.

In an office I think it is pretty hard to tell when someone is actually available. If you make a mistake and interrupt someone while they are actually thinking deeply about a problem, you can cause a pretty big dent in their productivity.

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Re:‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans t... by fooey on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:25PM (#27695715)

In the office, I was distracted by coworkers massively more often.

Maybe if the "office" actually gave everyone enough space to have their own office the push-back against going back wouldn't be so bad, but it seems like no company wants to spend the money to have comfortable and productive working environments.

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Re:‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans t... by zffr on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:57AM (#27700500)

For a few months my company had us in single or shared offices (max of 2-3) and I think it was my favorite office environment for productivity.

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