I love WFH, and it's afforded me time and experiences that I know I could never ever have again if I had to go to the office. I'm sad that the experiences of people who were forced into WFH (and not suited for it) have translated into a "return to office" culture for many companies.
At the same time, I think it requires a conscious investment from companies that many don't make. Your employer has to work pretty hard to create a remote work culture that makes you and your team successful. Not doing so makes it far too easy to ignore you, and disconnects you from your team and the business. People who work in the same location will naturally work together more, and make less effort to connect to remote workers to get their job done. It's a slippery slope to remote work(ers) looking like the problem.
I'm a big advocate of remote working and will push for it in every role I take on for the rest of my career. But I don't think I'll expect it to work everywhere anymore.
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Hi Miko, you've mentioned some real good points, the remote work culture is something that I do see in lack on many of the customers that I've worked, some of then wants to work with the mindset of presencial work, thinking that everyone is available at any time, others just forget about your existence, and if you don't look for your team, they don't even remember that you are there.
And also, there is something that concerns me the most, exactly what you've mentioned, having companies returning to the office, how will they manage the ones that are not in the office? They will need to have an open camera with open audio in the meeting room to the ones that are not present in the office. But until when?
If the company abandons the remote culture work, working remote starts to die in that company, and the one that loses the most are those companies. Loses talented people that will not go back to an office, loses money having more people at an office, with rent, power, coffee and water and loses global talents.
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I love WFH, and it's afforded me time and experiences that I know I could never ever have again if I had to go to the office. I'm sad that the experiences of people who were forced into WFH (and not suited for it) have translated into a "return to office" culture for many companies.
At the same time, I think it requires a conscious investment from companies that many don't make. Your employer has to work pretty hard to create a remote work culture that makes you and your team successful. Not doing so makes it far too easy to ignore you, and disconnects you from your team and the business. People who work in the same location will naturally work together more, and make less effort to connect to remote workers to get their job done. It's a slippery slope to remote work(ers) looking like the problem.
I'm a big advocate of remote working and will push for it in every role I take on for the rest of my career. But I don't think I'll expect it to work everywhere anymore.
Hi Miko, you've mentioned some real good points, the remote work culture is something that I do see in lack on many of the customers that I've worked, some of then wants to work with the mindset of presencial work, thinking that everyone is available at any time, others just forget about your existence, and if you don't look for your team, they don't even remember that you are there.
And also, there is something that concerns me the most, exactly what you've mentioned, having companies returning to the office, how will they manage the ones that are not in the office? They will need to have an open camera with open audio in the meeting room to the ones that are not present in the office. But until when?
If the company abandons the remote culture work, working remote starts to die in that company, and the one that loses the most are those companies. Loses talented people that will not go back to an office, loses money having more people at an office, with rent, power, coffee and water and loses global talents.