That recently leaked memo where he go on a tirade is also just asinine. He's conflating bureaucracy with WFH, and talks about how there's 14 committees to accomplish something. He's the CEO. How much do you want to bet that complaining about the 14 committees even to Jamie will just result in 1. you being marked as a troublemaker, 2. resulting in 15 committees.
There's still zero evidence that WFH reduces productivity or that RTO increases productivity.
> There's still zero evidence that WFH reduces productivity or that RTO increases productivity.
Depends on the team and the job, which is what I appreciated about this employee's question. He brought up that for his team, there were 7 people scattered around the globe. RTO didn't make sense for them.
I manage two teams with 10 direct reports total. 9 of them are in NYC. Having some days in office absolutely has benefits. Personally, mandating 5 days in office doesn't make sense to me. People come in 3 or 4 days and that's great.
There isn't zero evidence that working in person has benefits. That's silly.
Complete anecdote, but my personal life experience is that offices only cause me to get more easily distracted and forget what I'm doing (which costs me time and productivity), whereas at home I can actually concentrate and not lose track of my own mental models, leading to better results.
It's kind of sadly become necessary after having some traumatic brain injury, since I wasn't quite like this a decade ago.
It really depends on what you're doing and what dynamics the task at hand requires.
tyre|1 year ago
Depends on the team and the job, which is what I appreciated about this employee's question. He brought up that for his team, there were 7 people scattered around the globe. RTO didn't make sense for them.
I manage two teams with 10 direct reports total. 9 of them are in NYC. Having some days in office absolutely has benefits. Personally, mandating 5 days in office doesn't make sense to me. People come in 3 or 4 days and that's great.
There isn't zero evidence that working in person has benefits. That's silly.
winocm|1 year ago
It's kind of sadly become necessary after having some traumatic brain injury, since I wasn't quite like this a decade ago.
It really depends on what you're doing and what dynamics the task at hand requires.
kadushka|1 year ago