Amazon warns workers to come back into the office::This week, a reminder email was sent to employees who didn’t work on-site at least three times a week.
Our place agreed with the landlord that if they did the legwork to find a new tenant they could teminate the lease early.
Even the smaller place (barely a cupboard) they rented afterwards to give a business address/phone is going away quite soon… there’s just no need for our company to have physical presence at all.
The unspoken bit is the reason the productivity is up so much is there isn’t a manager wandering into the office and saying ‘I had a great idea!’. Now they send an email, and those of us with the seniority to get away with it tell him to GTFO so by the time most people read it it’s history. But the advantage of working with peoples lives can’t be understated… You can schedule your work around your life, parents can pick their kids up from school, you can have an ‘off’ day without feeling you have to stare uselessly at a screen for 8 hours (and, a tad more controversially, you can work whilst ill, which we’ve caught a few people doing… no risk of spreading disease any more but it’s not healthy).
