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by ghiculescu
1592 days ago
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My company has been back in the office for 18 months. We followed all the rules but we were also clear that as a company this is how we prefer to work. We hired and retained “office people” who like to work with smart people in real life. I think this pool of people is growing. It still takes discipline to turn away great candidates who insist on remote first, but it’s worth it to keep this culture that works for us. Since we are in Chicago, we all went remote for January. Work from home or from anywhere you like. Then we all got together in Austin for the last weekend of the month. I’ve never seen people so excited to see colleagues, and never heard tech workers so adamantly tell me they don’t want to work from home. (We’ll still do it again next year, because Chicago winter. But I want to make it easier for people to co-work if they are in the same place as a colleague.) I find articles like this where people casually say they have been at home for 2 years so depressingly dehumanizing. Of course if you truly want remote, that’s great, and I’m truly happy for you. But if you don’t, you shouldn’t feel like no alternatives exist and that maybe one day if you’re lucky things will change. (We are hiring if you are in Chicago, London, or Brisbane. Email in profile.) |
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I think this is very good. Hybrid teams are worse than fully on- or off-site teams. The remote employees always end up as second-class. I think that each team should be one or the other, all the way.