The Future Is Minimum Office, Not Zero Office
Having the best of both worlds means a lot of WFH and a little WFO
In Hybrid Remote Work Offers the Worst of Both Worlds, Sid Sijbrandij, the CEO of GitLab, makes the argument that companies will either go back to the office or adopt an all-remote work model once the pandemic is over:
In the time since offices shut down, some companies have already canceled their leases with the intent to go all-remote. On the other hand, many companies are intent on reducing their in-office presence, rather than eliminating it, and plan to go hybrid-remote. Those who do hybrid, if not intentional about making systemic changes and treating every employee as if they are remote (whether in-office or not), will see their most effective remote people leave. The hybrid companies will then blame the lack of productivity on remote instead of the actual cause: managing two distinct employee experiences is a very arduous task. These companies will write off remote work as a novel experiment, blame it for operational difficulties, and pull remaining remote workers back into the office.
I don’t buy it. He offers no evidence or research about his claims about the difficulties involved in ‘hybrid remote work’. However, there is a great deal of research to the contrary from the pre-coronavirus era. For…
