Re:Is going to the office a broken way of working?
by dave78 on Monday October 11, 2021 @05:59PM
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Maybe I'm just used to it already. My team has employees in several different states (due to having offices there through a series of old acquisitions), as well as contractors both in South America and Eastern Europe. So, even before COVID, our meetings were already online-centric.
In fact I started working remote full time because after our company moved us to a fancy new open-office floorplan in the city my commute went from 20 mins to 75 and I realized I was wasting all that time just to be on virtual meetings in the office, so I stopped going in. Even when we were all in the office, meetings tended to be online anyway because the company did not build nearly enough conference rooms.
Having an online-first culture even before COVID never seemed to be a big problem for us. Obviously YMMV.
In fact I started working remote full time because after our company moved us to a fancy new open-office floorplan in the city my commute went from 20 mins to 75 and I realized I was wasting all that time just to be on virtual meetings in the office, so I stopped going in. Even when we were all in the office, meetings tended to be online anyway because the company did not build nearly enough conference rooms.
Having an online-first culture even before COVID never seemed to be a big problem for us. Obviously YMMV.