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Sep 19, 2024
1:27:09pm
The most important factor for WFH being successful is corporate culture
Companies that are culturally WFH where nobody really goes into an office are going to be more successful.

I've worked in cubicles, open office, and WFH. The only thing that mattered was that the culture of the company dictated the success of the approach. For each company I worked with that had the respective working environments the company had set the culture as being that way from the top. Where it breaks down is in transitioning between each state because it requires redefining rules around etiquette and protocol which is hard and slow.

Lastly, the most successful WFH situations are ones where people have pre-defined digital rooms that you can jump in and out of where people can congregate. For my team we have 4 different standing zoom rooms that engineers will hang out in during the day while working on problems together. This creates cohesiveness and reduces the social downsides of WFH. From a business perspective, it drives us to work together on problems to prevent people from being slow/ineffective at home because they're expected to be in a room majority of the time.

Ultimately, this works for my team because we created this culture and enforced it. If something isn't working it's because it's not incentivized or enforced correctly allowing people to operate outside the "culture" leading to inefficiencies
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