Work From Home
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Giffon: Remote Fridays are a soft launch of the four-day week
“The people, the reason people are so attached to work from home is because they actually have like two or three hours of work to do per day. And so work from home Fridays is like a, is a soft launch of the four hour, four day work week.”
Petersen: Work-from-home ultimately benefits employers through global labor arbitrage
“The idea that work from home is going to benefit highly paid employees is sort of a total fantasy. Like, work from home done correctly, you should be hiring the world's greatest geniuses. There should be a labor arbitrage here, where you're finding really, rea…”
Work-from-home Fridays lead to lower productivity and are ineffective
“If you want to work from home on Friday, that's okay, but just accept that bluntly you're not going to work as hard, you're going to go to Pilates at 10, and work from home Fridays is bullshit, four days a week.”
Catherine Boyle: Work-from-home is the only policy intervention that increases birth rates
“There's now good research, actually, there's a study that came out maybe a month ago that showed that the only thing that's really moved the needle from a policy perspective on the birth rate Is actually work from home. It's like the one policy where if you ar…”
Nooyi: Choosing to work from home limits promotional opportunities
“However, I'm also of the belief, Shane, that if you choose to work from home, male or female, I don't care. If you choose to work from home, you might also want to accept that your promotional challenges may be, your promotional opportunities may be limited.”
Codie Sanchez argues that remote work making people happier is a lie
“Some of the research shows, one, higher levels of depression and anxiety with work from home. So I actually think that was a great lie. It was a big, beautiful lie. That sitting in our sweatpants, in our house, on Zoom meetings all day would actually make us h…”
Lessin: Offices and homes cyclically out-compete each other generationally
“It's just the cycle. It's like your home out competes your shitty office. So then your office has to get better. Right. And then you're like, cool. Now my office can out compete. You're like, oh shit. Now it's your home has to get better. And like people just …”
Pre-2020 Indian Laws Required an EPABX Machine to Work From Home
“I looked up that thing, and then I realized that, in fact, the law said that you couldn't, and in fact, you had to have an EPA BX machine in your basement in order to work from home.”
Fully remote offshore developers are far less sticky than office-based talent
“What we've found is that when we've actually had developers that are just work from home, that they're not, they're far less sticky.”
Sacks: Remote work improves top workers but lets weak ones hide
“I think that work from home makes the best employees better, but it allows the worst employees to hide.”
Chamath: Remote work won't reach full potential until onboarding is solved
“And until you do that, I'm not sure that work from home will be as effective as it can be, because I think you'll just get a lot of people that, that languish a little bit as they switch jobs.”
Parrish: Remote work will make difficult organizational skill transfer much harder
“The most difficult skills to transfer are now going to be incredibly more difficult to transfer, especially for new employees, let alone existing employees.”
David Sacks believes permanent work-from-home sentiment is likely overrated
“I think, you know, the idea that everyone wants to work out of like a small room and, you know, extra room in their house, I think is probably, Getting, it's probably a little overrated. I think people would like to get back to the office.”