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Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week”, according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.

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[–] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 63 points 1 year ago (18 children)

People have been hailing WFH after COVID as a lasting change. But it has always been clear that non fundamentally remote companies will never accept this as a permanent solution.

Hybrid is a really bad in between, the advantages seem marginal (more flexible remote days, less needed office space) to the disadvantages (people will still be mostly remote in meetings, commute times still a factor, work environments need to be duplicated between home and office).

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hybrid works, but you need to make sure that all relevant people are there to make it work. That usually means everyone in a department has to be in on a certain day and that people who interact with other departments are also in on certain days.

You have to maximize face time to make hybrid work.

[–] circuitsunfish@plesiosaur.net 1 points 1 year ago

@HobbitFoot @alcasa

full agree, I'm in a hybrid role right now where the customers I serve are remote to my building and my boss and tech leads are full-time remote. So what's the point of my commute

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