29-07-2022, 12:14 PM
This post is mostly on Meta (or Facebook) but I thought the take-away is how normalization to pre-covid 19 continues to accelerate.
As the pandemic started to end, there were only a few brave souls who were willing to come out and say "get your axx back to the office", Jamie Dimon been one that I can recall.
Yes, WFH (work from home) is a permanent feature now. But as times get hard, my suspect is that WFH will probably turn out to be more an exception than the norm. For example, this may disappoint some companies (eg. AirBnB) that are counting on this "work from home/anywhere" trend to accelerate.
ZUCK TURNS UP THE HEAT
By June of 2021, almost anyone could work wherever they wanted. At the same time, the company embarked on a massive hiring spree, growing its number of full-time employees by 62 percent, from 48,000 at the end of 2019 to more than 77,800.
During the June 30th call, parts of which were earlier reported by Reuters and The New York Times, Zuckerberg made clear that his company, in its pandemic era of expansion, had become too soft. It was time for a work culture reboot.
“I think during a lot of the COVID period, I kind of bias[ed] towards more flexibility and convenience for people,” he said. But now, he’d noticed people making personal appointments in the middle of the day, making it hard for even the CEO to get everyone to attend a meeting.
“Given the intensity of the environment that we’re in right now,” he continued, “I think now the right way to bias is more towards ‘let’s try to make the decision today, not wait until next week.’” From now on, employees were told to be available for meetings midday California time.
https://www.theverge.com/23277797/mark-z...s-pressure
As the pandemic started to end, there were only a few brave souls who were willing to come out and say "get your axx back to the office", Jamie Dimon been one that I can recall.
Yes, WFH (work from home) is a permanent feature now. But as times get hard, my suspect is that WFH will probably turn out to be more an exception than the norm. For example, this may disappoint some companies (eg. AirBnB) that are counting on this "work from home/anywhere" trend to accelerate.
ZUCK TURNS UP THE HEAT
By June of 2021, almost anyone could work wherever they wanted. At the same time, the company embarked on a massive hiring spree, growing its number of full-time employees by 62 percent, from 48,000 at the end of 2019 to more than 77,800.
During the June 30th call, parts of which were earlier reported by Reuters and The New York Times, Zuckerberg made clear that his company, in its pandemic era of expansion, had become too soft. It was time for a work culture reboot.
“I think during a lot of the COVID period, I kind of bias[ed] towards more flexibility and convenience for people,” he said. But now, he’d noticed people making personal appointments in the middle of the day, making it hard for even the CEO to get everyone to attend a meeting.
“Given the intensity of the environment that we’re in right now,” he continued, “I think now the right way to bias is more towards ‘let’s try to make the decision today, not wait until next week.’” From now on, employees were told to be available for meetings midday California time.
https://www.theverge.com/23277797/mark-z...s-pressure