I am just 100% more productive when I don’t need to be standing in traffic for 2 hours or be forced to be sitting in a 4 walls room with AC that is killing my health.

We could work remotely, but it’s not going to happen.

People and businesses work best together. We have fun, we bounce ideas around, we motivate each other.

We have a big building that is 30% office and 70% recreation, kitchen etc. We move desks close together and everything is open plan and noisy and brilliant.

We never have meetings, everyone knows everything and everyone knows who is doing what. We all see the whole business and understand it.

Yeh, we could work remotely.

But it’d be really shit and you’re going to have to kill me first.

Maybe the problem isn’t WFH/WFO but rather that the whole employment model is not a right fit for today. People should be more like contractors than employees and be more invested in their own success

Working from home goes against how the entire system was created. 40 hour work weeks in an office somewhere far away from home. We are supposed to be slaves to the system. If we have more time to ourselves and less work then eventually the population might figure out shit we aren’t supposed to figure out. We might find other ways to survive and make money that doesn’t rely on corporations resulting in less buy in overall. Or we all actually realize we are smart and figure out how to become wealthy. In reality the system can’t work if there’s too many wealthy people. It’s designed to have a certain amount of people at the top and bottom. Is being home more is a direct threat to the control they have over us.

We could work remotely, but it’s not going to happen.

People and businesses work best together. We have fun, we bounce ideas around, we motivate each other.

We have a big building that is 30% office and 70% recreation, kitchen etc. We move desks close together and everything is open plan and noisy and brilliant.

We never have meetings, everyone knows everything and everyone knows who is doing what. We all see the whole business and understand it.

Yeh, we could work remotely.

But it’d be really shit and you’re going to have to kill me first.

Maybe the problem isn’t WFH/WFO but rather that the whole employment model is not a right fit for today. People should be more like contractors than employees and be more invested in their own success

Well, five is unnecessary – the result of one-through-four. Four is definitely my thing – and I have worked remotely with a team.

The tools aren’t there for management. Just the hype. Not one little feature addresses anything in the news since The Great Resignation took hold – let alone solves the notorious ‘problem’ all startups claim they understand so well.

Management is difficult in person. Nobody wants to admit any of the challenges at arm’s length. And you know what, typical to wantrepreneurship not one damn body gives a shit.

Everybody has a solution. They just can’t understand any problem. And all say “artificial intelligence” like that subject hasn’t had the worst track record of pragmatic results for fifty years.

Work from home is the worst thing that has happened to business in our country. Most… not all, but most people cannot manage time wisely. I see people all the time that say, “oh I can hope school my kids now because my job just went remote” Yeah No way

It’s mind numbingly simple. Imagine you’re a ceo.

If you have an office with enough room for all your employees, there’s no benefit to allowing remote work and only cost. The cost is more pronounced in certain roles but it’s essentially self evident: it’s easier to skate off when you’re out of sight and out of mind, and you know you’re getting what you pay for when your employees are in the office, vs when they are not you don’t know. Oh, you’re more efficient at home and don’t waste time commuting? As the boss I don’t really care, because I only care about the metrics that drive my business to grow. It would be irresponsible to operate differently and likely cost people their jobs.

It doesn’t work for everyone. It works for more senior experienced people that knows how to get things done and responsible for themselves.

For juniors it has a 50 percent success rate because they lack the discipline to make it work.

Some employees cant even properly set up their remote office let alone manage their time.

Thats the reason why we offer hybrid approach only for employees who has proven that they can manage and put in the efforts.

I run an events company so most of my staff are physically required either onsite or in our warehouse. It’s really only the admin and management staff who could work remotely.

I think it would be terrible for my company’s culture to require the people, who physically do the work, to come in while the managers all sit at home.

Leadership should be from the front.

Remote work works for some people and is definitely here to stay, but for me it’s just quite depressing being on my own all day. I find having colleagues around to chat to is what makes work worthwhile when the real work gets boring or repetitive.

Previously running a team remotely I found that the existing team did well, but training anyone new was difficult. The lack of interaction and discussions at lunch or the pub afterwards used to solve issues, that obviously stopped happening.
Some people slack off, some more than others, but the biggest issue with that is people that you couldn’t get hold of on a Monday morning or Friday afternoon if there was a problem.

To give a reason, I think it’s less productive but keeps people happier. A lot of the best employees want to be remote, and if you insist on the office you’ll never get access to these employees.

Fully remote but had an company that worked in an office for about 6 years. So this is from an employer / business owner:

A couple of reasons why on-site might be better:

• better team bonding / closer relationship
• faster execution of ideas (especially for startups)
• less distractions
• better to guide new team members
• there are some jobs that are not project based, so productivity is lower for remote.
• poorer communication

Yes, it’s down to management and better communication,

But I need to put in way more effort to get more from the team versus (the whole job of a leader and manager)

Especially if the team is inexperienced and never worked remotely before.

It works for a company with an established systems. But less for a startup trying to figure things out and scale.

Fully remote is a horrible idea, like really, really bad. Sure, everyone thinks that fully remote is great because it is great for them. However, it really isn’t. Why? Simply because less work is done. I remember reading a study regarding remote work done back in about 2015. The finding was that when remote work was allowed, not fully remote, just some remote, there was less work that was done. In software development, there was source code checkins. Checkins fell off significantly on Fridays. Management decided that people were required to be back in the office more, more checkins happened, and more software updates were completed on time. Life feels much more transactional in a mobile environment. There is much less interaction. There is much less interaction. There is much less brain storming.

Quite simply, I’m not a fan of full remote at all.