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The CEO of Dropbox has a 90/10 rule for remote work
(www.businessinsider.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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I think that's about right. Maybe a couple days per quarter for a department, and then a few days a year with the whole company together. Enough to get a good rapport with your coworkers, but not so much you hate traveling for work.
If you give people good metrics to hit, they'll hit them. If you don't have good metrics then you rely on seeing asses in seats to know if people are working.
Actually this makes sense from a corporate asshole perspective: the need for call center employees is seasonal. So you hire call center employees before the holiday season, and then the system auto-fires all the excess employees for missing their quota after the end of the season.
I work for a corporate retail store, I always tell new workers who start asking questions why we do things this way not that way that there's no point, there is no logic or thought put behind every decision this company makes.
I bet they had a huge amount of turnover in March because they couldn't hit February's numbers in January
MBA's are a plague
I mean, you get your opinion, but I just disagree.
Remote means Remote.
Being forced to stand in a field and eat hot dogs with my coworkers doesn't accomplish anything but subject me to learning things I shouldn't need to know about my coworkers and being forced to share things I don't want to share with my coworkers.
I have never once attended a "team building" event and liked my coworkers more after.
In fact, the opposite happens. I learn who is religious. I learn who is racist. I learn who denies climate change. I learn who is a horrible parent bit thinks they are the best parent.
I'm not friends with my coworkers. I cowork with them, and as a data analyst/process Automator, I can do that through zoom.
That sounds like a you problem. I've had a great time at all of them.
Because the people responding, myself included, don't get sent to a pizza party for a team building. Probably way higher end, and they are reflecting on that
I don't care who you are, free pizza is a gift I will accept any day. It will beat anything else I would be bringing in for lunch.
I mean sure.
So are you saying you are a proponent of causing a problem for me? Because you have a great time, you endorse forcing me to go against my will?
I guess I'm not saying "don't do team building", I'm saying "don't force people who don't want to go to go."
If I am doing my job, and I am remote, why are you compelled to fuck around with me and make me uncomfortable for 10% of my work obligation?
I wonder what your coworkers discover about you...๐
Probably nothing they like.
But when an out of touch CEO isn't trying to force us to be "a family", they love my work, and that's all I care about at WORK.