[HN Gopher] Our journey from office-centric to remote-first
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       Our journey from office-centric to remote-first
        
       Author : kiyanwang
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-06-20 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | Spartan-S63 wrote:
       | I like their step 4. I think this is what most companies should
       | be doing right now. Remote-first is the only way to truly have
       | equity in the workplace and they're not discounting finding
       | opportunities for employees to collaborate together, but they're
       | not forcing people to collaborate physically in the same place.
        
       | FreakyT wrote:
       | I feel like most tech-workers can be divided into two camps:
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       |  _Type 1:_ "It's obvious that remote work is the future, and
       | anyone who thinks otherwise is stuck in the past"
       | 
       |  _Type 2:_ "Remote work is infinitely inferior to office work due
       | to the lack of socialization/collaboration/food/etc"
       | 
       | Evidently the leadership at Docker is type 1, based on their
       | "step 4". The part I find particularly interesting about this
       | trend is that both camps can't seem to fathom that the other
       | could possibly exist (see: any HN discussion thread about remote
       | work)
        
         | sverhagen wrote:
         | It's not that I can't fathom that the other one exists, or even
         | that it would be attractive to significant parts of the
         | population, it's that I can't fathom that I'd ever change my
         | personal preference, no matter how much of the other one I get
         | forcibly exposed to.
         | 
         | So, I'm expecting a reality where, for workers with the luxury
         | of this sort of choice, this will become an early
         | "disqualifying question" while job hunting: are you remote or
         | on-site? (It probably already _is_ that disqualifying question,
         | just not quite as prominently yet.)
        
           | hallway_monitor wrote:
           | Maybe I'm just old but I want to share a space with the
           | people I'm working with and, yes, it seems obviously superior
           | to remote.
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           | I wouldn't say it was the deciding factor, but when I got an
           | offer from a smaller place working in person, I took a
           | significant pay cut to go back into a (very cool) office.
        
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