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prediction: in five years time, most people working for companies that are bringing in hybrid working will in practice just be in-office or remote
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overgeneralising wildly, many workers want to be remote. and management wants people in the office. who will win?
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if people are remote, you need to design your workplace culture pretty differently to include them. which isn't going to happen in a hybrid model - the point of it is that you can still keep an in-office culture, while giving ground to workers who don't want to be in the office.
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I would predict that people would slowly drift back to just being in office - ah, this meeting would go better if I came in, I don't have a good workspace at home, I want to make a good impression by showing my face every day...
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except on the other side, if you're trying to hire for a tricky role, there's suddenly a load of talented candidates who have working remote as a deal breaker. and if you're (vaguely, badly) set up for remote work, you could deal with that. or maybe just for a year til they move.
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also in the mix - the companies we're talking about usually have multiple offices, probably in multiple time zones. so they'll be on Zoom the whole time anyway. if anything they need bigger offices, so people can take calls in meeting rooms rather than from their open plan desks.
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necessary disclaimer: I'm talking about a specific type of company and a specific type of work here.
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oh, yeah: as there are more remote tech jobs, some funky stuff is going to happen to salaries. right now, where you are has such a huge bearing on how much you're paid. what happens as those start to decouple? as an example: rents are currently soaring in Denver.
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this thread gives some lived examples of what this will look like, and how messy and unequal it will be @lizardengland/1424108107958046727?s=19
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my company has just announced that, rather than requiring hybrid work for everyone, different departments can work remotely (if the execs decide on that)
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one year later, and this prediction is looking pretty spot on - see nytimes.com/2022/05/22/business/hybrid-work-office.html @v21/1406213451593261063
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not that it was an especially hard prediction to make! @adrianhon/1528356049400520707
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thinking about the in-office skew of a lot of articles, and how that reflects how a lot of reporting implicitly is for an audience of capital vs labour
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and now the Tories are trying to turn it into a culture war issue! or maybe they're just wanting to find a reason to bash the civil service. or both!