Shopify To Let Employees Work From Home Permanently (reuters.com) 15
Canadian e-commerce firm Shopify would keep its offices closed till 2021 and allow most employees to work remotely on a permanent basis after that, Chief Executive Officer Tobi Lutke said in a tweet on Thursday. "Office centricity is over," Lutke said here in the tweet. The company employs about 5,000 people.
We need more work from home startups (Score:1)
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I think a lot of folks at companies are going to start seeing how little the central office where everyone comes in all the time is....
There's already been studies showing productivity UP with everyone working from home now and that's often he bottom line for employers.
And...we've seen articles showing that folks that live in $$$ cities and urban
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Great for (most) white-collar employees, bad for useless middle-management.
Especially because their bullshit passive-aggressive, off-the-record prodding of employees will now be in emails or text messages; where there will be a record of their uselessness.
When I worked for a huge company, there were so many people that seemed to have no purpose other then to go around and ask employees how things worked in order to "understand" the business. If their annoying questions had to be on the record, they would be laughed out of their jobs.
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That was what was happening pre-pandemic - all the new companies had work from home policies, while the old establishment didn't.
The pandemic forced the established to adapt and quickly adopt work from home policies. Most were predicting doom and gloom, but given what's happened, most have seen things actually continue.
The pande
wfh now the new norm (Score:2)
Not choose, force (Score:2)
From the inside- we aren't allowed to choose to work from home. We're going to be forced to work from home, like it or not. Offices will not reopen, or if they do will reopen as only meeting facilities. Nobody is happy about this (an actual choice we probably would be).
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There are various shared working spaces available, where you can rent a desk and work alongside other people if that's what suits you...
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There are various shared working spaces available, where you can rent a desk and work alongside other people if that's what suits you...
And will the company pay for that? Or is it another cost that they are transferring to their employees?
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Does the company pay for your commute to/from the office?
Does the company pay you for the hours spent commuting?
Does the company pay you any extra costs associated with having a residence close to their office, vs the cost of a similar residence in a cheaper but further away area?
It's likely that working from home will result in cost savings for most employees.
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And I can't talk about the projects I'm working on with anybody. No thanks.
I've already informed my boss I'll be leaving as soon as I find a good fit.
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You can't communicate via electronic means?
There are many projects worked on by people who never or very rarely meet in person. How often do Linux developers meet each other?
99% of the chats i had in an office were not work related and/or distracted me from the work i was trying to do, electronic communication is easier to defer until later and easier to properly think and plan a thorough response rather than being put on the spot and responding with the first crap that pops into your head.
Similarly, there
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I've worked in this industry for 20 years. I've been remote, and I've had teammates go remote.
When I'm remote, I get less than half done that I do in the office. That's not counting the side benefits that occur via mentoring juniors, being able to help others that have problems, and be able to keep up on other related projects where I may be able to help. None of those happen when I'm remote.
When other people go full time remote (remote 1 day a week is something else), the BEST I've ever seen is 75% as e
So what defines a 'good fit' for the company? (Score:2)
Right now the job interview culminates in the assessment of the cultural 'fit' of the candidate. That involves the walk around and informal talks with existing employees to ensure you have what it takes to blend in with the group. In a remote office, what replaces that?
In a remote office does who or what you are matter as long as you meet deadlines and can communicate sufficiently well online?
In fact, does this mean that company 'culture' is a thing of the past? How is a remote worker different from a te