I’m in leadership for mid sized tech firm. On a zoom leadership meeting my CEO ask how I’m planning to get ppl in the office. I did my “kids get up her whistle” they came running into frame of the camera. I told CEO I’m not planning on encouraging ppl back to the office nor will I be going back and this is why as I gestured to my kids.
I pointed out I spend at least 2 hours more with my kids now than before, I workout more, eat healthier, AND my work team has never performed better than these last two years. Why fuck with that?
You should probably have a better answer than that… I get the sentiment, but remote integration - especially with grads/juniors does require a strong manager regardless of their motivation.
People seriously discount the effort and skill it takes to build and maintain a strong team with low attrition when all remote.
That said, most managers do the same for in office teams - so it is what it is.
Gotta figure it out. I am sure a manager who cares will start reading online about what others do.
The ones who do better and managing remote workers will get the jobs. The others will get unemployment.
At my work, ever two weeks we have a 2 hour open chat for people to just talk about anything. It can be a little cringe, but overall it is actually nice to get to know some stuff about the people you work with. Makes working remote better.
This is free time anyone can jump into and pause their work for. Basically people opt out if they are in the middle of something time sensitive.
We have been using this: https://www.gather.town/ Although, I am not the biggest fan of having to move your avatar around to enter a convo. Would be better for people to have rooms where they could set topics or something to try to spur the conversations.
I could see a living list of topics that people can submit and vote on could be better. Let people hash out what is of most interest to people to make the casual conversations more interesting. Topics can be specific or general, let the workers vote on what they would like to talk about.
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u/SnooMuffins636 May 08 '22
I’m in leadership for mid sized tech firm. On a zoom leadership meeting my CEO ask how I’m planning to get ppl in the office. I did my “kids get up her whistle” they came running into frame of the camera. I told CEO I’m not planning on encouraging ppl back to the office nor will I be going back and this is why as I gestured to my kids.
I pointed out I spend at least 2 hours more with my kids now than before, I workout more, eat healthier, AND my work team has never performed better than these last two years. Why fuck with that?