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Originally Posted by jmack
Offices will probably never be a thing again, despite what a handful of sociopath middle managers want. People's eyes have been opened and talented professionals will never RTO.
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Offices will definitely be a thing in the future, they just might look a bit different with more compact and efficent layouts where office and cube "hoteling" is common rather than people having their dedicated spaces. Hoteling can work well with people coming in 2 to 3 days a week. In most cases, being in the office fulltime won't be as common as it once was, but most companies will go to a hybrid system requiring staff to be in the office 2-3 days a week. For younger and newer staff, probably more often to get to know people in person. For our staff that only want to come in 2-3 days a week, they are in a hoteling situation. For me that comes in 3+ days a week, I get a dedicated office.
As a 48 y/o manager in the environmental consulting with 25 years of experience, there is NO WAY for a new staff member, especially one fresh out of the school, to be remotely successful being fully remote compared to someone that is coming into the office on a routine basis. I have seen this first hand with numerous staff in our offices over the past 3 years. There is something to be said to be able to walk to your manager's office to ask question, shoot the crap, and such. Same goes for just talking with your colleagues by the coffee machine. I don't know how many times I've learned something new, solved a problem, etc. by just randomly shooting the crap with someone while waiting for my coffee cup to fill. Doing video and conference calls is terrible and inefficient for so many reasons, IMO.