from the hire-less-fastidious-developers dept.
'Striking a balance': How one company is rethinking the office for hybrid work:
With huge demand for developers and their salaries at an all-time high, companies are focusing on creating the working conditions that will appeal to tech professionals in a highly competitive marketplace.
While high wages will help attract talented staff and interesting projects will keep them keen, companies also need to ensure they foster a working environment that allows developers to work how they want to, where they want to.
That's something that resonates with Milena Nikolic, CTO at digital ticketing company Trainline, who says a key challenge for her company during the next 12 months is ensuring it can attract and retain the IT talent the business requires.
[...] Crucially, the company isn't setting quotas in terms of days and hours at either the office or home. Decisions over the location of work are delegated to teams, managers and employees.
"Among the tech people, my guidance to my team has been that, if you feel your team is operating well remotely, then that approach works," says Nikolic.
While this hybrid-working arrangement has been effective so far, she also recognises any change is always a work in progress.
[...] "It's about striking a balance – so far, we think we've accomplished a reasonably good balance, but that was something that we spent a lot of time looking at."
(Score: 5, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday April 06 2022, @02:40AM
So, all the bs objections to telecommuting have been dropped? And, all the ageism bs, that too stopped?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2022, @02:58AM (3 children)
In addition to being extremely anti-social, I've also been working remotely. All in all, I'm not sure I like it. There's simplicity to being able to physically sit side-by-side when looking over a problem or helping a co-worker with something. If I'm having a bad day, at least the managerial types can see that my butt is in a chair, even if my mind is millions of miles away.
I'd be rushing back into the office, except I just don't want to be around all the sex the cis-gendered people have in bathrooms. In the guy's room they're constantly sucking each other off, firing large weapons, and striking poses with their rippling muscles--it's hard to take a piss while rock hard, so I started wearing women's clothes and using the women's restroom, but that's a constant lesbian orgy. Then I tried the handicapped restroom and I never knew that there were so many sex positions involving wheelchairs.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Vocal Minority on Wednesday April 06 2022, @05:10AM (1 child)
That got weird quickly....
(Score: 3, Funny) by richtopia on Wednesday April 06 2022, @02:48PM
Yea, who sits physically side-by-side at work? Everyone migrated to the open office layout with those triangle desk islands. AC is a weirdo.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday April 06 2022, @02:51PM
Welcome to SoylentNews Representative Cawthorn. Would you like me to show you around a bit?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2022, @05:37AM
So, "we pretend we allow remote work, but you actually have to be in the office every day"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2022, @10:31AM
I don't see anything particularly novel, new or different to other places. There have been a few companies doing a lot of remote working before covid-19 hit, doing an article on them may be better suited. (I think gitlab is one of them)
Anyway, hybrid meetings suck, they combine the bad points from both and don't retain the positive effects. So I reasserted the old rule; it's ok to miss a meeting. There are meeting minutes and if it's really important we'll accommodate to fit everyone or we'll catch you later to give the update.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2022, @06:16PM (2 children)
The problem with Hybrid work that no-one seems to be dealing very well with is how the tech works. All the companies are assuming everyone is happy lugging laptops around and working on them at home without extra screens, or with lots of unplugging of cables etc. We need better solutions to allow people to work on their home PCs or an office PC.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Wednesday April 06 2022, @06:27PM (1 child)
I picked up a small box to ssh into my work PC and find it works absolutely great. I don't have to drive a big CAD system or anything which makes it practical.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2022, @08:48PM
If only my work network security allowed public ssh