Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says

Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by hot_gril on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:03PM (#38489984)

In most tech companies, I'd agree. When I was on exceptionally good teams where everyone was energetic and responsive, remote was perfect. When I was on average teams, it was too hard to get a hold of remote people even if they were productive. The individual action is simple, respond to messages ASAP and take video calls readily (maybe aside from some prearranged team-wide "focus time"), but leadership didn't set this direction.

I'd like to think that any new software workforce can arrange itself to be remote-only if it really tries, and it'd be much better off that way. Can also see why an existing company would rather bring people in-office.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by The_Colonel on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:32PM (#38490405)

I think this is a problem comparing older remote companies which likely selected for people who are good at working remote, but an average employee / team won't be as effective.

I've worked in a rather average team remotely during Covid and it was pretty bad. Lack of communication, difficult to get hold of people, low productivity. The team fared better before Covid for sure.

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