I love working remotely but did an onsite this week with our small team and woweeee in person is great
Haha this is my stance on WFH... I love working remotely! But I love working in person! Too much of one in a row gets old though.
It's a hard trifecta to achieve: ā work is in a place where you also like to live ā people you work with are people you like to be around ā workplace is a nice environment to work from I'm extremely happy I have all 3 atm
I find remote + 1 week in person 3-4 times per year is the best. Diminishing returns to being IRL when not enough high level stuff has "piled up", IMO. Biggest exception is very early stage companies (<10?), where things can change every day so the best setup is probably literally living together. Doesn't scale, tho!
Tell me moreā¦ what did you love about it?
more a comment on the team than being in person broadly I think in person is just more immersive and multisensory. that could be good or bad depending on who youāre in person with
Love that you called it in "onsite". It's been pretty counter-intuitive that most people are calling them "offsites" at a fully remote company.
Same Iām missing in person. Going to try Empire DAO in nyc this week for a co working space
šÆagree. Nothing beats in person collaboration
šÆ 100% believe that the vast majority of in-person work can be had through remote work + in person creative, collaborative offsites a few times a year. Itās sobering to think we were trading off hours of our lives for commute & office life.
We do a team āhealth checkā every quarter, where we ask questions like āthe work Iām doing is valuableā, āI feel connected to my coworkersā, āIām compensated fairlyā, etc. Weāve found that overall health peaks during onsites, and diminishes over time until the next onsite, where it peaks again.
It would take some adjusting to spend that many hours around people that arenāt family at this point!