Companies With Flexible Remote Work Policies Outperform On Revenue Growth::According to a new report, companies with flexible remote work policies outperform firms with more restrictive policies when it comes to revenue growth rates.
Nice
Watch everyone forget that correlation doesn’t equal causation when it confirms their biases.
I can only speak for myself. I work a hybrid schedule. I am far more productive when I work at home because I am much more comfortable and much less distracted.
In the pre COVID days when office was expected, I only was in the office 3.5 days a week. But it worked because everyone was there most of the time and for important meetings. It all broke with fully remote hiring during the pandemic. For those 3 days I’m in, only 33 percent of the team is in. What’s the point at that point when I can’t find a conference room to take constant remote calls. Hybrid everything is the worst of both worlds.
For me it is the other way around. At home too much distraction. In the office I can focus.
Why is why flexible hybrid schedules are the ideal. Let workers pick what work best for them.
Usually the same for me, although I can still be productive at home.
However, zoom meetings are terrible. May as well just have a phone call. But you can’t have 6 people hash out a problem online like you can around a conference table.
It strongly suggests either causation (WFH -> RG), reverse causation (RG -> WFH), or common causation (Some other factor ->WFH&RG).
Yep. Employees are happier work harder and produce better work than those who are just going through the motions. Fewer distractions and longer commute means less productivity is possible.
Working in the office is kind of a sham imo, although I won’t fault people who do prefer that face-to-face communication with their co-workers.
The key here is choice. Let the employees decide. Don’t force your bullshit policies on everyone
I now spend 7.5 how’s in the car each week.
Looking for a new job, I found one that’s 1.5 hours away I’ve way - however, they offer 3 days home per week, 2 mandatory in the office. That means less driving for me (if I get the job)!
I love this news and all but let’s remember that Forbes is a hot garbage web magazine that is perpetuating a lot of the corporate narrative about how wfh is dying and how businesses need to bring people back because “culture”.
I think they are trying to play both sides of the issue to keep those juicy clicks rolling into their site.
Office culture, in my eyes, has about as much actual culture as a freshly sterilized petri dish.
Freshly Sterilized Petri Fish is about as neutral as you can get.
Office culture is far more hostile to the worker than that.
Harvard Business Review does the same thing. It’s really funny. One issue will have pro-executive+commercial real estate talking points (not backed up by data, just feelings) and then they’ll drop an online article or two talking about the power of remote work supported by actual data.
Different writers with different opinions no?
14% increase in productivity going from at will part time remote work (meaning many were full time at the office) to obligatory full time remote work for everyone. That means full time remote work is even better than flexible or whatever other hybrid bullshit employers try to impose on their employees.
Work from home is the future for businesses that 100% operate out of an office, and are basically only an office.
Why pay for a centralized building? Pay for upkeep? Pay taxes for the building?
Especially when the WFH model makes more money? Well, to the wealthy few they realize the soul-crushing work in-person model maintains their class status. This could upset their class structure, and they’re terrified of it.
But in a beautiful twist of fate for once, the legal decision to make growth the #1 goal of publicly traded companies is working against the class that instated them.
There’s probably always going to be a central administrative place for handling mail, holding sensitive documents, etc. But it can all be a lot smaller than it is now.
I’m popping a bottle of discounter champange when the ‘office-building-crisis’ starts
Hopefully they will become the desperately needed affordable housing.
They won’t.
It’s prohibitively expensive to convert office buildings into residential. So prohibitively expensive, in fact, that it’s often more cost effective to demolish the entire building and rebuild residential in its place.
(At which point, of course, the owner will have sunk so much into their investment that the cost of the brand new housing will be as high as they can possibly make it and still fill the place.)
Stop dreaming.
It’s definitely in the starting/fear of happening phase. In the US, I often see articles talking about the potential financial meltdown that empty office buildings are going to create.
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As a mid career employee I love remote work. Reflecting on my early career development, I don’t know how I would have gotten to where I am without the in person interaction with more senior folks and my peers.
Can confirm.
To absolutely NOBODY’S surprise.
I dunno. Bosses everywhere gonna be shocked by this.
I want to work in a fish tank.
Welcome to C-world!
Who Would Have Thought.
Right?
Well yeah except the un-necessary managers (or the managers being not really needed, etc. YGMP), I guess they are not in a good place right now.
Anyway, this morning I brushed my teeth around 9h45.
Someone tell all those tech startups or the tech megacorps or the traditional companies … Maybe just tell everyone :D
My company just officially closed our office and made everyone permanent WFH. Best news I’ve had all year!
i.e. a company that understands the sunk cost fallacy.
I haven’t been to my office since 2020. Loving wfh.
I had that happen at the start of COVID. Then I went to another wfh job. Then that job started forcing two days in office a week 😑
It’s at that point I’d start looking for a new job.
Oh I am, IT job market is weird right now though
Lol we did the same from the start of the pandemic and the growth has been insane
Alternatively, “Companies that outperform on revenue growth can afford to have more flexible remote work policies.”
Growth-growth-growth, more growth.
Degrow already.
Number must go up…
Big number better than small number, god, catch up. Pay attention.
