[HN Gopher] Airbnb CEO calls the office an 'anachronistic form' ...
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       Airbnb CEO calls the office an 'anachronistic form' and 'from a
       pre-digital age'
        
       Author : goplayoutside
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-05-08 22:02 UTC (59 minutes ago)
        
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       | version_five wrote:
       | I agree and disagree: certainly I think the idea of a "workplace"
       | where you go for 8 hours to give your time away to your employer
       | is something from a industrial revolution workhouse (although
       | such jobs do necessarily still exist - security guard, factory
       | line worker, but not in software).
       | 
       | On the other hand, I think for many jobs, office dynamics have
       | more than zero value. The ability to meet and collaborate
       | spontaneously (which I think can to a large extent be recreated
       | remotely), but also the fact that some part of many roles is
       | actually some kind of "support" - whether helping peers learn
       | something or secretarial or office help, a lot of it does get
       | lost in remote work.
       | 
       | Overall, I think remote work can be great, but I've personally
       | seen many who see it as an excuse to drop the useful
       | interpersonal interactions and just do "their work", often in
       | less time than would have been budgeted in person. If that's how
       | some employees work best, ok, but I think the workload has to be
       | revisited to account for what time people have available and what
       | they are not doing but being remote. It can't just be a have your
       | cake and eat it too situation.
        
         | hypothesis wrote:
         | There is some truth to what you're saying, but why should one
         | not be rewarded for doing things in less time than it would
         | take in office? Is it not a literal advantage?
        
       | I_DRINK_KOOLAID wrote:
        
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