Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says

Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by foobarian on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:03AM (#38488248)

Way back (talking multiple decades) on my first day at $JOB, my manager took me on a walk and introduced me to about 30 other engineers across multiple teams. A bit of smalltalk and bit of shop talk with each one. I still connect to 15 out of those individuals even today. I wish there was a way to replicate that for the remotes these days, because I felt that was pretty awesome.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by no_wizard on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:16AM (#38488406)

There are, like remote happy hours, travel blocks, team get togethers etc.

These are solved / solvable issues. Socialization at work can be facilitated in a myriad of ways, even remotely. Games are popular way of doing it, virtual happy hours, team building activities etc.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by ghaff on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:34AM (#38488662)

There are. I admit to finding them annoying for the most part and I usually avoid.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by photonbeam on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:40PM (#38490507)

Remote happy hours are hard because everyone is at the same audio volume /distance.

I wish I could emulate walking-over-there on zoom

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by no_wizard on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:58PM (#38493050)

you could use fluid rooms in Zoom, lets you go in and out to talk to someone

There needs to be a normalization of "peeling off" the main chat room

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