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Does Nothing care nothing about their employees? Nothing. The London-based smartphone company just mandated a full five-day-a-week return to the office. One of the reasons stated by Nothing’s CEO:“Remote work is not compatible with a high ambition level plus high speed.”While that statement is pure conjecture, here’s some math:Average London one-way commute time = 60 minutes Commute time per work day = 120 minutes Average number of UK work days per year = 250Commute time per year per employee = 120 minutes X 250 = 30,000 minutes That’s approximately 500 hours of unpaid, unproductive commute time per year for each employee. Compare that to approximately zero hours of commute time per year for remote work. Multiply 500 hours by 450 Nothing employees (not all UK-based). I don’t know about “high ambition”, but losing 225,000 hours of potential productivity per year […]

Even remote companies are having a tough time moving past the concept of an office. The idea of needing to see you to know you’re working persists, even virtually.Enter the rise of browser-based and VR virtual offices, complete with features like:🗄️ Virtual cubicles 🗣️ Virtual taps on the shoulder🏓 Virtual ping pong & foosball tables🧑‍💼 Managers can “walk the floor” virtually💧 Virtual watercoolers for unexpected face time with execsVirtual overtime and crunch, anyone?And a VR office… who could stomach wearing a headset eight hours a day?We’re perpetuating all the dysfunctions and distractions of the office virtually.Let the office go.As the fully remote 37Signals (makers of Basecamp) put it:“Don’t emulate the office.Work remotely, not locally apart. Don’t just have the same meetings on Zoom, have fewer meetings. Rather than discussing everything in real-time, communicate asynchronously instead. Rather than feel the need […]