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If you're an employer: Why have you never considered going remote (that is if your team can work remotely)? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by suaibme1@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Please, I'm just genuinely curious.

But I'll like to help anyone wanting to answer by categorizing the reasons into like 4: You can choose any, or come up with your own reasons.

You believe remote work is just a trend, and will die soon
You think it's just a bubble waiting to burst
You think remote work will never be successful
You believe remote work is still in its infancy/ (it's early) and you don't want to jump on the train just yet
You're just uncertain about the whole remote work thing

I'm thinking of using your reasons to work on a bigger content (ebook) for my long piece here.

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[–] Rooflife1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I am an employer in a strategy consulting business. I do not think it is possible to build team culture and operating effectiveness in a fully remote environment. In particular brining on and training junior staff is far more difficult.

Hybrid works. Remote doesn’t.

My feeling is that a lot of people who hate the social aspects of work, love WFH and don’t see what gets lost in the process. They broadly set their own KPIs, work to meet them, don’t notice when they diverge from corporate KPIs then whine about how cruel and incompetent egotistical bosses are.

In some fields WFH may work. For the most part, in my view, it does not. And the most rabid advocates of it are often the ones who least understand why.

[–] laserdicks@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

don’t notice when they diverge from corporate KPIs

Once again, managers telling on themselves for being the actual failure and blaming the remoteness.

[–] X02378@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

And the most rabid advocates of it are often the ones who least understand why

I am a rabid advocate

I am on a multinational team of about 350 people with the worlds second largest data center portfolio exceeding $100 billion in project costs every year working for a FAANG company.

We're all 100% remote.

If it doesn't work for you, then you aren't hiring top performers or you're a poor manager.

[–] Perspective_Itchy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course you dislike remote work, you’re in consulting

[–] Rooflife1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like remote work. I just don’t think it is effective

[–] Perspective_Itchy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Why? The only arguments so far is “something gets lost in the process” and “people working from home set their own KPIs”. None of this makes much sense to me, objectively speaking.