Work from home or Work from office?

@exemplar That's true, office space surely increase productivity and gives you a change, sitting at home would surely become boring after a point of time.

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@kim_lawson Hence we don't recruit them, but I believe the conversation here was which one is better for you WFH or WFO? Which one do you prefer? Also trust is important at all cost, you need to trust your team to take at-least small decisions, if you don't trust them the company would always remain a start-up and never become an organisation. Because it's practically not possible you to reach at all places.

@shalin_doshi Yes, which I answered as WFH mostly, but you countered that with the trust aspect. I still say that that is not the issue. But I do hear what you say. I did quite a bit of WFH (in an engineering situation, so pretty unusual) prior to COVID. I've experienced the good and bad from a personal perspective. I agree with all who bring up the collaborative aspect. For me, that's the main reason for going to the office. However, I suspect that as technology becomes more clever we will be able to approximate the sort of F2F creativity that we need. I was not a fan of working from home initially and that has definitely changed (mainly due to technology advances). Also, from a sustainability viewpoint it's a no-brainier to stick to office work as the rule. But I think we kinda agree at heart.

@kim_lawson how much ever technology advances it’s never going to replace human interaction 1v1 so I believe that can’t be a reason to replace that interaction. If technology can resolve the creativity of collaborations I believe the airline industry is going to go for a toss. Also WFH is a costly affair especially in countries where unit rate of electricity i high.

@shalin_doshi I think you might have just hit on a real casualty of WFH. Airlines should be very worried. And transport services in general. But don't you think this is being driven by climate issues as much as anything else? Also, think of the premium businesses get charged for their custom. Rental values, telecoms charges etc. It has to be more efficient to cut office space. I would like to see a 4/1 ratio of people specifically going into the office one day a week for the F2F collaborations. Is that realistic? Viable commuter-wise? I think it could be made to work. Or would that indeed end up being a "jolly"? Interesting times huh?

@kim_lawson no I meant people commuting to different counties for business and travel, if technology is going to replace human interaction why would anyone travel? 1. During WFH there is 90% of the times calls going on, half of which are irrelevant but people have to be a part of it. 2. How do you work when you have to sit on calls for hours? Working time increases tremendously 9-5 job becomes 9-9 job what’s the point? 3. How to track any employee log? 4. 4 days work can’t be discussed in 1 day plus when you meet you team after 4-5 days there a lot of catching up to do instead of work as well being practical. So it’s real difficult to focus right.

@inam_from_outgrow for me WFH is only balancing personal life, with the number of distractions at home, it becomes hard to work. Plus you need a change after some time. It's like food can be cooked at home as well, why go to a restaurant? For change. Anyways what's your take on it?

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@shalin_doshi sure

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@reecekjones flexibility in terms of location or does it even include timings?

@shalin_doshi I think everything, all kinds of flexibility haha.

@reecekjones can you let us know what business are you into?

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@reecekjones imagine if you were at a wework, how many people you could have reached? Potentially to try your product out

@armenuhi_yeganyan are you in the zone when WFH compared to office culture?

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@reyalteedotcom that’s difficult to judge, I believe you can test the employee under pressure in an office environment better, compared to home setup. Also, a lot of task can be explained well 1v1 compared to virtual

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@kina so hybrid is the future, but would it have an effect on your output if you worked 100% from office?

@shalin_doshi absolutely! I find being in the office constantly quite tiring and distracting, and prefer to have time to WFH 😊

@kina I feel WFH is more distracting compared to working from office, as we can focus on more in work environment compared to home. I would like to state for schools in examples, studies can happen from home as well, why have school? Because the students get distracted at home.

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@kim_lawson There is nothing has to be, if that was the case apple or google wouldn't have spend billions of dollars to create an office space, having great leaders they could have implement WFH easily, but I'm sure there would be some benefits as to why they spend so heavily in creating a good office space. Also We work become a billion dollar company by providing a seat in a building, that same seat and table was there in someones house, yet they opted for we work.

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