Opinion The Office Is Dying Its Time to Rethink How We Work. The New York Times

And I think it’s pretty obvious that the aesthetic of working hard at your desk was never a very good measure of actual productivity. Charlie warzelYeah, some of this is rooted in my own personal experience and in both of our personal experiences, but kind of hit hardest for me. In 2017, we moved from New York City to Montana and were doing our jobs remotely. And this is obviously before the pandemic, when there were no restrictions on where I could work, and I could go to a coffee shop without any fears of exposure or anything like that. I think, if there’s one thing that really has come across from our conversation so far, it’s that our current model for thinking about the office is broken. I think it’s remarkable how people perform when they feel like their needs are being attended to a little bit better, or that they’re getting what they want, or that they have just a little bit more autonomy over their days.

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The vast majority either prefer remote or some form of hybrid. It was the flexibility that routinely was only granted to executives, who could take summer Fridays off and go to their beach house. And I think it’s really, really difficult to roll that back.

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And I worry about that not just for me, but especially for people who don’t have the level of familial and social support that I have. If we change the way that we work, a lot of that data will just naturally start to appear in those remote spaces, or will be exchanged in digital channels that aren’t part of the corporate infrastructure. But right now, I think so much of the difficulty of this moment is because a lot of what the office is for isn’t for work, but it’s for this kind of unofficial data. And we’re trying to figure out the ways to impart that on people and have that culture in a different medium. Rogé karmaYeah, and I think that there’s some really good data to show that it’s actually just a bad business decision, to Charlie’s point. The Stanford economist Nick Bloom, who I think has done some of the best work generally on remote work, him and some co-authors just released what I really think of as the gold standard study on hybrid versus in-person work.

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The home is where you get a lot of your hard, deep work done, and then maybe there are co-working spaces where you work together with other members of your immediate team once or twice a week. And then maybe there are regional locations where, every couple of months, bigger teams can come together for team building and bonding. But you would also have that space available for people who wanted that, and I think that sort of iterative, flexible space is something that, if someone were designing an office right now, you would have much more of that. But instead, we’re getting a lot of retrofits that I don’t think are expansive in their thinking about what the office is actually for. But what we end up seeing is a very lazy implementation in so many offices of something like Slack, and what ends up happening is it becomes another channel overlaid on top of all the other communication channels where you have this long running performance of your job. You’re live action role playing your job, and that ends up being such a drain on productivity.

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And I think that once those meetings got on the books and were normalized, they’re still there, so that’s one thing. And we have this to some extent with headquarters, but these spaces would not be a place where hundreds, thousands of other workers are as well. It’d be more a place where you go to onboard, a place where you go for large events, a place where you go for conferences, for times of celebration, for commemorating who you are as a company, for that manufacturer of culture broadly. And then you have all of these satellite places, and this, I think, really facilitates real flexible work that allows people to live in more places than just expensive coastal cities, where you can come into these spaces and use them collaboratively. As a result of graduating into the pandemic work force, they really understood their job as much more of a transactional relationship instead of that familial one.

I just liked the fact that I was good at performing my job. That was a really difficult experience psychologically, and honestly, it’s one that has coincided personally with therapy. But I just think it’s going to be so complicated and it’s all going to happen over time in ways that are expected and unexpected for the people who opt to be really detached from a sense of place and use that flexibility to roam. I think you’re also seeing people who are moving back home to be closer to family, to be caregivers. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with those choices on an individual level. I know lots of people doing those things, lots of people leaving cities, lots of people traveling on the weekends more, and they seem really happy with those choices.