Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office

Re:Want employees to return to the office? Then give each on... by spaniard89277 on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:43AM (#37064388)

If I had a small-medium company I would hand out money for renting coworking spaces. If enough people do this, coworking spaces will pop up more and more and compete to get the best deals. People who wants to WFH can pocket the difference and those who crave for socialization will have a place for such.

A large company can probably do that with smaller offices or with setting up the coworking spaces themselves and renting the spaces left without occupants.

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Re:Want employees to return to the office? Then give each on... by coffeebeqn on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:56PM (#37065497)

I don’t think people working from random coworking spaces solves the problems the execs imagine working from one office does

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Re:Want employees to return to the office? Then give each on... by euniceee3 on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @01:32PM (#37066006)

100% this. Remote first company and there are two offices. We get more done with in-person casual conversations than formal meetings. Our velocity from the office is significantly higher. I wish some of the other teams shared offices a few days per week.

The commute is not bad when they are localized due to the team members having worked together in the past.

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Re:Want employees to return to the office? Then give each on... by ghaff on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:12PM (#37067751)

And yet WeWork is probably going to end up out of business. Maybe if I didn't have any real estate footprint yet, I'd consider an all coworking spaces footprint. The more general problem is that, even if I were fine with driving into a local office, I probably wouldn't know anyone much less work with anyone there on a given day.

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