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Has anyone noted how unusual it is that the heavy-on-the-culture tech cos would be the ones leading the way on 'work from home post-covid' thing?
A lot of Silicon Valley cos were HUGE evangelizers of the value of in-person office culture
A lot of Silicon Valley cos were HUGE evangelizers of the value of in-person office culture
Facebook went so far as to build its new HQ building as a SINGLE ROOM (but the size of like 4 Home Depots) because of the value of in-person interaction https://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2012/08/29/gehry-designs-facebook-office-fit-for-buzz-in-one-room/
This in-person culture in the booming tech companies spurred a reevaluation of work-from-home policies at the older / tired tech cos. Yahoo and IBM reversed course and brought people BACK to the office https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-thousands-of-employees-back-to-the-office/
The reversal seems to suggest one (or multiple of) of the following
-creativity isn't sparked by office culture/human interaction as much as previously thought
-creativity isn't as in demand as it was previously
-this is just a fad
-Other
-creativity isn't sparked by office culture/human interaction as much as previously thought
-creativity isn't as in demand as it was previously
-this is just a fad
-Other
One of the areas that drove a decent amount of demand at WeWork was its pitch that boring sterile old corporations could 'outsource culture' to WeWork, so the UBS's of the world would turn to WW to redo their own offices and attract cool millennials https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/wework-coworking-office-space.html
