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Originally Posted by dirk digler
Respectfully disagree and in IT we are always troubleshooting stuff in real time. There is now technologies for this like Teams, Slack, Zoom. 
The company I work for all admin staff like HR, billing, accounting never have come back to the office. Our CEO decided smartly that he was going to lose alot of staff and they can better utilize their office space. We do have a billing team where their supervisor makes them come in 1 day a week and they all hate it and don't see a reason for it. Mind you these same people 2 years ago all came into the office everyday and worked 40 hrs.
Times have changed my man. |
My company just closed two of our regional offices and turned loose of two of our four floors at HQ. It's saving us on the order of $75 million per year.
Granted, that's a drop in the bucket compared to labor costs, so there's a valid debate about productivity, but that's complex enough that no one REALLY knows the optional approach. But our turnover is super low, and all our financial metrics are still right where we want them to be. (And you can bet we're interviewing ex-Twitter folks - we need all the engineers we can find right now.)
Our CEO has declared us a "distributed" company at this point. We have an office for team meetings and such, but otherwise there's no expectation for anyone to go in. She also joked that she'll fire anyone caught sleeping in the office.
Like I said, I don't disagree that there's room for discussion about the optimal approach, but there's zero question that I'll stick with this place longer since I can work from anywhere.