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Originally Posted by DaFace
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. |
I think the real key to maintaining productivity is making sure you have remote workers who have good work ethics....I have always told my team that results are the best measure and that working 60 hours a week doesn't impress me.
I still think that coming to the office occasionally has it's benefit, especially when it comes to training or special projects. But if my team is meeting and/or exceeding expectations I could care less where they work from or what they wear while they are working.
What I wouldn't tolerate would be those that are pretending to work (there again results tell the tale) or those who work a 2nd job while doing the original one from home (this is a rare event but does occur)