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Yeah, I was think about that with teams. Mine doesn't ring or notify, I will get it when I get it. It's like IRC: you just ask the question.
In the end if it works for you that's great. My biggest problem is hybrid meetings. A roomful of people and a bunch of remotes makes them a mess.
Either everyone in one place, or no one.
For me remote is great. I keep a lot of wasted time stopped because I force documentation as a requirement. If there is a question needing asked, it and the answer gets written down, or it wasn't worth asking in the first place.
I like spending my time in other cities and countries instead of commuting.
Edit. I wanted to add that you make a good point inadvertently about local businesses downtown. A lot of them were hurting without the foot traffic so that's a positive.
Seems like your documentation should be out in the open not sent over to them. You should all be looking at the same thing.
Bothering people at thier desk is exactly what I do not want. Why not put your question into teams or what ever you use, and it will get answered when they have time?
The point is that you can't measure productivity if there is no effort to actually make it work. At that point hybrid is just as bad.
The article was interesting, and this stood out:
“In many of the studies we cite and in some of our own survey evidence, workers often get more done when remote simply because they save time from the daily commute and from other office distractions,” Barrero tells Fortune. “This can make them look more productive on a ‘per day’ basis, even if it means they’re actually less productive on a ‘per hour’ basis.”
So why does per hour win over per day? I would rather be productive each day and manage my own time over an hour by hour basis.
Which leads to another key point in productivity: asynchronous work. Hybrid and in office tends to go back to synchronous work, which in itself is not productive.
Feel free to post this evidence that wfh is not more productive. Everything I have seen has unusual metrics or seems obvious that a conclusion was reached based on what the purchaser of the study wanted.
Wfh is better for documentation and stops side work nobody knows about because you bake it into your business.
Creating a document? Better have Metadata and a reason, and stored publicly. No one off excel sheets, or emailed word docs.
Wikis and collaborative tools are used in the open by everyone, as well as dashboarding and production metrics. Clear defined work processes and workflows are a must.
What happens in hybrid, is people start doing the sticky notes, using email, word of mouth work, and undocumented training/knowledge share.
By publicly. I mean internally, all workers should have access to, and edit rights to, all knowledge.
We mock crypto because anyone who has it wants to hoard it as an "investment". Nobody wants to use it as a currency.
I tried for years, buying and selling goods with crypto. I never purchased any crypto, I just earned it. I tried to talk others into the same. You need to spend to have value.... they just laugh and day hold your bags tight with diamond hands.
Yeah, it's never going to work.
Hybrid sucks. It's the worst of both worlds. Meetings with half In a room and half not are awful.
Hybrid stops the progress to efficiency, allowing for bad practices to creep back in. Poor documentation, bad workflows, side work nobody knows about, to name a few.
Work from home can be just as productive, if not more so, but the workload has to be managed to achieve it.
Hybrid sucks. It's like the worst of both worlds.
If you are going to have meeting with remote and in office, never have anyone in a meeting room.
Everytime I read anything about lyft and uber I can't help but wonder what would happen if the drivers could get organized and form a non profit coop.
Get a new name, app, insurance, a board that runs the day to day operations.
Would it even be profitable then? At least it might be equitable.
Is it not just a ban on selling a product? People could grow tobacco, and roll their own.
I didn't read the law, but from the article it looks like it is just a ban on the sale of the product, not personal choice to actually use tobacco.
All the schools I have seen are using Google docs and sheets.
Yeah, won't work. I quit eating fast garbage food 30 years ago, but for every one of me there are thousands who just don't care.