Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says

Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by m3kw9 on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:40PM (#38489583)

Is hard to replicate the physical instant access you get at an office and simulate it well in digital form. in the physical office space you cannot ignore someone while maintaining plausible deniability like if you were remote. You likely will be responded if you are face to face physically. I’m not sure if replicating that remotely is too intrusive for people to handle(forcing a camera to be on when requested).

You can always ignore people from remote till you are good and ready

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by ghaff on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:58PM (#38490699)

Well, and getting together for lunch, or a beer/mocktail after work. Virtual socialization feels so forced by comparison. And no-agenda meetings don't work either.

I sort of agree on the virtual whiteboarding (it's partly a surface area thing) but I think we've also discovered that colllaborative docs work fine for a lot of purposes.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by JoeAltmaier on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:42PM (#38489611)

We had a product called Sococo some years ago, that showed active team members. You could 'knock on their door' and know whether they were ignoring you or not.

So it's possible, with the right interface.

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