| I work from home often. I like working from home. I fight to work from home. I've worked from home off and on for over a decade. That said, in my experience there are some things that are just done better face to face. Not many, but some. * meetings where you want to sketch something out--I haven't found a digital solution for sketching say, architecture diagrams, that works as well as a whiteboard. * the chance to meet and interact with someone outside of your team/department by happenstance, say at a FAC. Of course, you can go onto different slack channels, but I think the interaction wouldn't be as fluid. * one on ones. While I guess a hangout might give you some of the face to face time, video conferencing isn't as high bandwidth as face to face conversation, including all the nuances of pauses, body language, etc. I think there might be others, and I bet they all have the component of physicality that can't be delivered digitally. (Yet? Maybe VR will deliver it.) I'm not a fan of required in office work, but see the tremendous value in it on occasion. Edit: formatting |
We can still make face to face work, I just don't believe everybody has to commute everyday - it's all about balance - we just need a culture shift.