craigie

>This isn't a factory where you have to solder a set number of devices to meet your target numbers. This isn't an animation studio where you have to animate a certain number of director-approved frames ("footage") a week in order to meet your performance expectations.

Wait you don't have KPIs?

Why didn't the managers fire them?

I don't get why in person types camt just use a co-working facility. Obviously not an option during the pandemic and that was rough gor them but so was going to the office for years for everyone else.

I suspect what the VCs say will have an impact too.

>I enjoy my co-workers' company and our little chats and social interactions provide a lot of value to me personally

You can get all of that in a cowork space while others work remotely.

>, since it has become harder for them to "play the game" of office politics

I suspect this is the real reason for a push to return to the office.

>that you could actually make friends with people existing solely on zoom?

I don't get this idea that you need to be friends with your colleagues. Hpw does that improve productivity?

Professional yes, friendly even sure but friends? That's for leisure time and it shouldn't matter if their your colleagues or not.

>works well when you already have a bunch of personal relationships between teammates that were established while the company was in-person. And it works well for experienced people that have ramped up.

I think a key question here is how long and how often do you need to see someone to establish and maintain those relationships.

There were exporters/importers and othe long distance businesses relationships for a long time, so I don't think its every day for years.

Really the only one who should be deciding if an interruption from one person to another is worthwhile should be the manager. They know whose time is more valuable to the company at that time. Plus managertime is easily interuptible.

I think a good compromise might be come in once a month but for a few days. It's infrequent enough that you can move to a lcol area and the company can replace the office with hotel or co-working.

But it's frequent enough you can still hold most of your stuff for inperson if you didn't want to have the overhead of remote working.