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The Return to the Office Has Stalled (archive.is)
submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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The number of companies that require employees to be in the office full time has actually declined to 42%, from 49% three months ago, Scoop said. Employees at companies with hybrid strategies work an average of 2.5 days a week in the office.

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[–] Benghandhi@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hybrid jobs don't make sense to me. If it's a job that can be done from home, why are you forcing workers to come back to the office 3 days a week?

[–] sagacity@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just started a hybrid job and can give one reason: being trained remotely sucks.

Every question has to be a chat/email/call and you don’t get the passive learning of hearing a solution that randomly comes in handy later.

[–] tburkhol@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This only gets worse as you move up the org chart and the duties & skills become more nebulous. If your job has "mentoring" rather than "training," then it's really hard to build skills remotely.

[–] sim_@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I can give one perspective. I average one day a week in office, and it’s necessary for certain tasks and helpful for others. Then, we all complete our tasks independently on our own time the other days. Office days are driven by need but we’re free to work from home otherwise. Hybrid makes sense for us.

But, it’s nonsensical the companies that set an arbitrary amount of days you need to be in person just because.

[–] Rylatar@dormi.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I do a monitoring job and outside of training newbies being in the office (thankfully only a few times per month we have to go to the office) feels just so pointless. Sure, the extra hardware does help but we don’t have things happening that much too often and our tools actually work better on the VPN.

Add to that the fact our shifts are 12h (day and night shift) in exchange for working less days in a week - when someone lives further from the office it’s a full day, exhausting ordeal. Getting up at 5.30 am, returning home 10pm kind of thing.