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I want to plant a flag on the 'work from home forever' idea.
The notion that people aren't going back to offices seems absurd.
In part, it's this simple:
The boss will be in the office. People who want to do well, who are ambitious, will be in the office. With the boss.
The notion that people aren't going back to offices seems absurd.
In part, it's this simple:
The boss will be in the office. People who want to do well, who are ambitious, will be in the office. With the boss.
2/ It is so hard to bring on new people & meld them into the culture of a workplace if there's no actual workplace.
It is so hard to get the benefit of those people—their ideas, their energy — if they don't know anyone.
People have functioned incredibly well at work this year.
It is so hard to get the benefit of those people—their ideas, their energy — if they don't know anyone.
People have functioned incredibly well at work this year.
3/ A team from NASA and SpaceX flew Americans in an all-new spaceship — twice — with 100% success.
Wow.
You all reading Twitter do amazing work, to be sure, every day. I know journalism. What the WaPo, NYT, WSJ — and every local paper — have done from home is just incredible.
Wow.
You all reading Twitter do amazing work, to be sure, every day. I know journalism. What the WaPo, NYT, WSJ — and every local paper — have done from home is just incredible.
4/ But the joy of work is, in part, the joy of the people you work with.
Being with them, talking to them, wandering over to test an idea, an approach, a problem.
We can't have a vibrant economy, a rewarding worklife, a rewarding personal life — without that office interaction.
Being with them, talking to them, wandering over to test an idea, an approach, a problem.
We can't have a vibrant economy, a rewarding worklife, a rewarding personal life — without that office interaction.
5/ I was stunned that REI built an all-new, innovative, beautiful HQ — then put it on the market without ever moving in, presuming they no longer needed a cool, interactive office building.
What?
Of course they do. Where will REI designers be working in 2025? Home, alone?
What?
Of course they do. Where will REI designers be working in 2025? Home, alone?
6/ Ha! Discovery.
REI sold its beautiful workplace campus to...Facebook. https://www.rei.com/newsroom/article/rei-co-op-completes-sale-of-bellevue-washington-headquarters
REI sold its beautiful workplace campus to...Facebook. https://www.rei.com/newsroom/article/rei-co-op-completes-sale-of-bellevue-washington-headquarters
7/ I've been working at home since 1996. I miss the office. I said to my richly tolerant wife 1 year ago — in Dec 2019:
'I'm going to look for a job in 2020. In an office. I'd like to work with a team of people, in person, again before I'm done working.'
She raised an eyebrow.
'I'm going to look for a job in 2020. In an office. I'd like to work with a team of people, in person, again before I'm done working.'
She raised an eyebrow.
8/ We're all going back to the office.
Not as insistently as in 2019. Many people will get to work at home, and many will get to work at home more than they ever could before.
Not as insistently as in 2019. Many people will get to work at home, and many will get to work at home more than they ever could before.
9/ But working *together* is such a layered, rewarding experience — for us professionally, emotionally, in terms of what we create & learn — that it has to be done in person.
(Yeah: Meetings. Frustrations. Cubicles. I know. Still.)
The office is not dead.
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(Yeah: Meetings. Frustrations. Cubicles. I know. Still.)
The office is not dead.
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