What are your views on remote work? Is this the future or just a phase?
Ralph Gerbs
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As an African with non-tech background, I find remote work to be liberating and more rewarding. I’m curious to know your views on remote work.
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Anna@horovody
Snowball Analytics
As someone already said, it has pros and cons:
Pros:
You can hire people based on their skills, not location
You can work with people from all over the world
It's said that companies with diversified teams make more money
You're in control of your work schedule
You don't waste time getting to work in the morning/evening
Cons:
It's harder to learn from experienced coworkers, especially for juniors
You might feel disconnected from your team
So ideally we need to take all pros and get rid of the cons))
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Simple Utm
Oh for sure it is the future. I think we're going to see more ideas focusing on socializing caused by lack hours at the office.
Co-working space is just one of them.
@bestbubbledev yes.. new places, new people, new networks.
Remote working is not good enough for freshers in any field and on the other hand, it is just best when it comes to traveling expenses. Thus, a hybrid work culture is what I think is best.
@excellentweb_australia yes best way to learn is being surrounded by team. Hybrid is good for experienced.
We all need balance, and I would use remote work to ensure our productivity stays the same when we have personal needs which needs to be taken care of.
Very much depends on the management team. If they can manage their people remotely, then it's the best they can go with. If management lacks skill though, hybrid or in-house will stick to them for loooong, as they will consider it superior to others.
MakerFit
@paul_d_michaels2 if this is true then the management is dumb af. What I meant, some people need to be working in hybrid mode because you cant leave office completely in some cases, for example there always need to be at least one IT admin in case someone manages to freeze their internet explorer :) Although, if working from site gets down to sitting on online meetings, then it's as wrong as it could get.
EV Readiness Roadmap
Definitely future. People like it and it's efficient + good for the world. Does it work? Yes, for some people, teams and companies it works as a charm.
hybrid is future
Definitely the future. Hopefully people will learn to care less about work.
MakerFit
Remote work is the future. But only for those people who know how to self-organize and search for information on their own. So every day there are more and more tools that can help in the work and at least you need to be able to find such tools. And of course you have to find the time to work and not to be distracted by small things. For example, I'm in the process of creating client bases, and https://letsextract.com/extract-... helps me a lot.
I think remote work is more like preference. Some people can still provides same output irrespective of their location. And vice versa also. Defiantly there are certain domain where remote working is not possible like operations. But there are also certain domains where you can easily work remotely.
I myself has been working remotely (wfh) from last 2 year.
How do you work? @ralphsalterego
Edworking
In my opinion it's present and future but probably on a hybrid way always you can combinate them.
With remote vs office, I don't think it's an either/or situation. Both will continue to have their place. People are all different with different preferences.
However, I think the more our tools and practices evolve to allow companies to create great company culture without relying entirely on office culture, the more inevitable and popular remote work will become :)
Anania
It depends on many things such as the working style of the person the nature of the job and the culture of the company. Some people work better alone others not. Some jobs require constant brainstorming. In general I believe remote work paved the way for hybrid working style which I believe is the future since each person decides how it is most comfortable for them to work.
Future is the hybrid work. Both remote and office work are necessary. People have different preferences and if companies want to have maximum productivity form their employees they need to take into consideration work habits.
WorkHub
I believe that hybrid work is the next future. And we developed our product to help employees + companies in this manner to smooth their workflow.
@qudsia_ali definitely... people should be working wherever they wish to in the environment of their choice.
It's been a phase for me for a decade. For sure it has pros and cons but for me the good far out weighs the bad
MakerFit
@joanne_hurleyv1 🤣 I didn't skip a beat when lockdown happened. I work at a walking desk so I am constantly in motion (+ creativity, + concentration and more) so I couldn't work sitting at a desk all day.
Propertizer
I totally agree with Cezary. It very much depends on the management team.