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Originally Posted by dirk digler
I hated at first wearing a mask but now I am used to it. Here is my hot take, during flu season we should all wear masks in public moving forward. I know it probably won't happen here but it does happen in Asian countries.
I view mask wearing like wearing seat belts and it took a very long time to get people using their seat belts but now it is common.
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I know for our company, we've already talked about future flu seasons and what we have learned. Most people feel very strongly that no one who has any symptoms at all should come to work in the future. Since we have our conferencing and remote work game pretty well perfected, it seems totally reasonable to me. We are luckily a very large creative company that can do 90% of our job from home as long as the bandwidth holds up (remotely operating machines that are onsite.)
We also don't think we will ever return to historical meeting sizes on site. All meetings will have a remote capability, and our smallest 50% of meeting rooms are being converted to other uses.
After a survey, almost 25% of people would like to work remotely permanently, another 50% want some flexibility to work remotely part time, and almost 25% want to return to pre-covid in-office hours. Out of the back to normal folks, a good chunk of them don't want their coworkers to work from home either, unless they are sick. They believe the social aspect of the workplace is a defining part of our creative process.
I don't know that I believe that, but I'm willing to at least try to find out what we can recreate to facilitate that same feeling of collaboration for them. At the same time, other companies will offer the flexibility now to attract talent, and we can't say no and expect to retain the best people.