Companies with hybrid/remote work force growing quicker than full-time office companies

Maybe the cause and effect is reversed - fast growing companies may need remote/hybrid workers because it is the only way they can get enough help.

The fact that they use remote/hybrid workers is probably not the cause of the company's growth.

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Maybe the cause and effect is reversed - fast growing companies may need remote/hybrid workers because it is the only way they can get enough help. The fact that they use remote/hybrid workers is probably not the cause of the company's growth.

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Essentially yes.

In my experience, younger companies are growing more quickly than mature, established companies.

Younger companies are staffed by younger employees on average.

Younger employees on average were never coaxed into believing commuting and being tied down to a specific desk/city was the optimal way to work.

Therefore, most younger companies need to have remote work policies to attract younger talent to work their jobs.

it's over, the grey haired balding rich dudes aren't getting their workers back in the office

I can’t see it correcting very fast.

It also depends on the industry on if work from home full time works or not.

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Companies with flexible work policies are growing more quickly than those that require people to be in the office full-time, according to The Flex Index,

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Suck on that Boomer OTers.

Companies are trying to reduce the carbon footprint.

I worked for a company in Houston that was driven by the carbon footprint reduction idea.

Funny thing is we didnt have a hypbrid schedule, we drove into work every single day during covid and beyond.

The world we live in.

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Suck on that Boomer OTers.

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I'm a Boomer and been WFH since 2005; in fact I've declined jobs that were in-office or hybrid roles.

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It is one of the only rights workers have had in long time to accrue some of their own irreplaceable time back.

Good workers can demand to work from home and will have the highest skilled labor to sell. Corps sitting on shitty leases is not my concern. And if the company fails from having impaired finances due to governments response to a cold then so be it. Also nothing I can control and im done sacrificing my family/time for an upside down office lease.

The change is coming (everywhere) you can accept it or fight it. Like the middle class living conditions in Louisiana will never get any better. You can accept that reality or or not.

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Companies have had nearly 3 yrs to renegotiate those leases and either buy down the remaining term of the lease or get out of them altogether. They shouldn't have been stuck in long term leases for office space anyway.

The going trend is WFH or a hybrid model, keeps the employee happy. If the employer can't offer that option, then the employee can easily find a company that does.

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Maybe the cause and effect is reversed - fast growing companies may need remote/hybrid workers because it is the only way they can get enough help.

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bingo

I abstain from voicing my opinion one way or the other on this debate (partially because I don’t think there’s one correct answer), but I always laugh when the “work from office” proponents cite slacking off as a concern with people working remotely.

I have never seen as much screwing (sometimes literally) off as I have in the office of a multinational corporation. Ping pong tournaments, 3 hour Starbucks runs, naps in the bathroom, sitting around gossiping in a conference room for an hour, multi-hour planning sessions spread over 2-3 weeks for the holiday party etc.

ETA: just remembered we had several fat women who brought their running shoes to the office and would power walk a lap on all 4 floors during their “lunch break”. This was at a major credit card processor in the Midwest, for those who care.