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by charia
2125 days ago
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I'd wager that in twoish years we'll see articles talking about the Remote Office Trap. Over the years we've seen a huge surge of individuals talking about the benefits of remote work and there are many. I'm not trying to ignore those benefits in any way, but there are downsides and I have little faith in most corporations to do a good job of addressing these new found problems in an optimal manner. And what works for some portion of the workforce (some amount of workers like open offices), might not be optimal for another significant portion of the workforce. Speculating on possible problem points in articles about remote work: I would guess they will simply see the savings in office costs and pass on very small portion of that, leaving employees with the need to now rent/buy bigger houses to allocate space for a permanent home office situation. Other problems include a possible increase in always on-call attitudes in that, managers will feel even more open to ask employees to work on something at non-standard hours since it's simply a matter of walking a couple steps to their desk. Workplaces are filled with humans and without causal interaction outside of standard work related meetings, I wonder how people will care about each other. Will employees have less empathy for each other since bonds between them are weaker? Things like asking for help someone on a task is harder if you're not as familiar with them. I wonder what other changes we'll see. |
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Anecdotes are anecdotal, but I’m seeing this in my peers. In particular newer and shyer peers are telling me this the most. They are also telling me their hours worked have gone up as well. One has specifically said their increase in hours is too make up for the lack of help.
I think wfh will prove to be beneficial for the confident engineers at the expense of the shy. EDIT: and those who are active in Slack at the expense of those who aren’t.