The Office is Dying: Its Time to Rethink How We Work

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Aerospace Engineering here

The solutions you learn just listening to people talk around you, or in having conversations is really needed. But concentrating at home is easier than in the office too.

As far as never being away from work, I log off when it's time and don't think about work again until the morning. If I have a late meeting with people on the West Coast, I will log off for a couple hours and get some things done around the house and then log back on. WFH to me doesn't mean any more hours at all.

Bottom line is that companies that don't adapt WFH at least hybrid are going to miss out on the best talent right now. If you want to compete in technology, you need talented workers. So the firms that are hanging onto the old school office environments are going to find themselves at a competitive disadvantage soon enough and then they'll be forced to adapt.

When I hear of companies on one hand talking about instituting draconian measures to track "productivity" and then also complain that they can't find good help on the other, I know that that is a company that is not going to be competitive in the very near future.