尽管一些科技公司的首席执行官正在威胁他们的员工重返办公室,但有一位首席执行官却反其道而行之——他每隔几个月才去一次办公室,并且允许员工也这样做。
艾特莱森的联席首席执行官斯科特·法夸尔在接受澳大利亚版《60分钟》(60 Minutes)节目采访时称:“我每季度大约去一次办公室。”
艾特莱森在2020年推出了Team Anywhere政策,自此便一直实施这项政策——尽管许多公司都在新冠疫情结束后开始采用混合办公制度。
法夸尔表示,弹性工作制让员工可以选择住在房价更便宜的地方,以缓解日益增长的生活成本压力,而不必担心会对其工作造成影响。
他说:“我们期望员工在家里、咖啡馆、办公室都能办公,但我们并不太在意他们会选择在哪里办公——我们真正关心的是他们的产出。”
法夸尔补充道:“员工的工作效率并没有改变。”
法夸尔是艾特莱森的联合创始人兼联席首席执行官,该公司致力于为软件开发商和项目经理提供工具,市值约为490亿美元。
据彭博社(Bloomberg)估计,法夸尔本人身价达117亿美元。
艾特莱森的其他高管并不认为混合办公制度是一个可行的解决方案。今年7月,该公司的Team Anywhere政策负责人克洛艾•伯杰(Annie Dean)对《财富》杂志表示:“混合办公制度会让人产生有选择的错觉。”
她指出,任何办公室要想能够实施混合办公制度,其公司就必须承担“旧办公模式下的所有成本”(如房地产成本),但“这种新办公模式却并不能改善工作效率”。(伯杰之前是Meta首位远程办公的主管,该公司将在下个月开始要求员工每周来办公室三天。)
一些大型科技公司持不同观点
法夸尔对远程办公的看法与其他大科技公司的首席执行官相左,后者越来越多地试图让员工至少在部分时间里重返办公室。
据Insider报道,亚马逊(Amazon)首席执行官安迪•贾西(Andy Jassy)在本月的一次内部会议上对员工表示,完全远程办公的员工在公司很可能没有光明的未来。
据报道,贾西对那些拒绝去办公室的员工警告称,“在亚马逊,拒绝现场办公对你们是不利的,因为我们未来要每周至少回办公室三天,而且不能所有同事都每周只回办公室三天,也不允许有人拒绝这样做。”
尽管这项规定引来了员工的不满,但这家电子商务巨头仍在推行混合办公制度,据传包括让员工搬到离公司总部更近的地方。
许多曾经对远程办公十分赞许的科技公司如今都在试图让员工重返办公室,称这有利于提高协作水平和工作效率。
就连Zoom(其视频会议软件为员工向远程办公的转变提供了助力)也想要让员工每周至少回办公室两天。据Insider本月早些时候报道,Zoom的创始人兼首席执行官埃里克·袁(Eric Yuan)对员工表示,信任是很难远程建立的。
然而,有一些科技公司仍坚持实行弹性工作制。
今年是爱彼迎(Airbnb)允许员工居家办公的第二年,该公司只在需要协作时才会召集员工。
爱彼迎首席财务官戴夫•斯蒂芬森(Dave Stephenson)6月对《财富》杂志表示:“我宁愿员工知道他们下周将要来办公室五天,以便完成一个特定的项目,也不愿他们每周随意三天来办公室,因为随机互动的好处微乎其微。”(财富中文网)
译者:中慧言-刘嘉欢
尽管一些科技公司的首席执行官正在威胁他们的员工重返办公室,但有一位首席执行官却反其道而行之——他每隔几个月才去一次办公室,并且允许员工也这样做。
艾特莱森的联席首席执行官斯科特·法夸尔在接受澳大利亚版《60分钟》(60 Minutes)节目采访时称:“我每季度大约去一次办公室。”
艾特莱森在2020年推出了Team Anywhere政策,自此便一直实施这项政策——尽管许多公司都在新冠疫情结束后开始采用混合办公制度。
法夸尔表示,弹性工作制让员工可以选择住在房价更便宜的地方,以缓解日益增长的生活成本压力,而不必担心会对其工作造成影响。
他说:“我们期望员工在家里、咖啡馆、办公室都能办公,但我们并不太在意他们会选择在哪里办公——我们真正关心的是他们的产出。”
法夸尔补充道:“员工的工作效率并没有改变。”
法夸尔是艾特莱森的联合创始人兼联席首席执行官,该公司致力于为软件开发商和项目经理提供工具,市值约为490亿美元。
据彭博社(Bloomberg)估计,法夸尔本人身价达117亿美元。
艾特莱森的其他高管并不认为混合办公制度是一个可行的解决方案。今年7月,该公司的Team Anywhere政策负责人克洛艾•伯杰(Annie Dean)对《财富》杂志表示:“混合办公制度会让人产生有选择的错觉。”
她指出,任何办公室要想能够实施混合办公制度,其公司就必须承担“旧办公模式下的所有成本”(如房地产成本),但“这种新办公模式却并不能改善工作效率”。(伯杰之前是Meta首位远程办公的主管,该公司将在下个月开始要求员工每周来办公室三天。)
一些大型科技公司持不同观点
法夸尔对远程办公的看法与其他大科技公司的首席执行官相左,后者越来越多地试图让员工至少在部分时间里重返办公室。
据Insider报道,亚马逊(Amazon)首席执行官安迪•贾西(Andy Jassy)在本月的一次内部会议上对员工表示,完全远程办公的员工在公司很可能没有光明的未来。
据报道,贾西对那些拒绝去办公室的员工警告称,“在亚马逊,拒绝现场办公对你们是不利的,因为我们未来要每周至少回办公室三天,而且不能所有同事都每周只回办公室三天,也不允许有人拒绝这样做。”
尽管这项规定引来了员工的不满,但这家电子商务巨头仍在推行混合办公制度,据传包括让员工搬到离公司总部更近的地方。
许多曾经对远程办公十分赞许的科技公司如今都在试图让员工重返办公室,称这有利于提高协作水平和工作效率。
就连Zoom(其视频会议软件为员工向远程办公的转变提供了助力)也想要让员工每周至少回办公室两天。据Insider本月早些时候报道,Zoom的创始人兼首席执行官埃里克·袁(Eric Yuan)对员工表示,信任是很难远程建立的。
然而,有一些科技公司仍坚持实行弹性工作制。
今年是爱彼迎(Airbnb)允许员工居家办公的第二年,该公司只在需要协作时才会召集员工。
爱彼迎首席财务官戴夫•斯蒂芬森(Dave Stephenson)6月对《财富》杂志表示:“我宁愿员工知道他们下周将要来办公室五天,以便完成一个特定的项目,也不愿他们每周随意三天来办公室,因为随机互动的好处微乎其微。”(财富中文网)
译者:中慧言-刘嘉欢
While some tech CEOs are threatening their workers to get back to the office, one is taking the opposite approach—coming to the office just once every few months and allowing his employees to do the same.
“I might come into the office about once a quarter,” Scott Farquhar, co-CEO of Atlassian, told Australia’s 60 Minutes program.
Atlassian implemented a Team Anywhere policy in 2020 and has stuck with it, even as companies began introducing hybrid working schedules with the end of the COVID pandemic.
Farquhar said flexible work allows employees to manage increasing cost-of-living pressures by choosing to live in a cheaper location without worrying about how it might affect their work.
“We expect people to be able to work from home, from a café, from an office, but we don’t really care where they do their work—what we care about is the output that they produce,” he said.
“We haven’t seen a productivity change,” he continued.
Farquhar is both the cofounder and co-CEO of Atlassian, which makes tools for software developers and project managers. The company has a market capitalization of around $49 billion.
Farquhar himself is worth $11.7 billion, according to estimates from Bloomberg.
Other executives at Atlassian don’t see hybrid work as a viable solution. “Hybrid is the illusion of choice,” Annie Dean, the company’s head of Team Anywhere, told Fortune in July.
She noted that requiring any office work at all requires companies to carry “all the costs of the old model” like real estate costs, without “any efficiencies of the new model.” (Dean was previously Meta’s first-ever director of remote work, a company that will start requiring workers to come in three days a week next month.)
Some Big Tech companies disagree
Farquhar’s views on remote work put him at odds with other major tech CEOs, who are increasingly trying to get employees back to the office at least part of the time.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees in an internal meeting this month that fully remote workers likely would not have a future at the company, reports Insider.
Jassy reportedly warned those refusing to come into the office that “it’s probably not going to work out for you at Amazon because we are going back to the office at least three days a week, and it’s not right for all of our teammates to be in three days a week and for people to refuse to do so.”
Despite employee unhappiness with the mandate, the e-commerce behemoth is pushing its hybrid work schedule, including reportedly telling employees to relocate nearer to the company’s head offices.
Many tech companies that once praised remote work are now trying to get people to the office, citing improved collaboration and productivity.
Even Zoom, whose videoconferencing software helped power the pivot to remote work, is trying to get its employees back to the office at least twice a week. Founder and CEO Eric Yuan told Zoom employees that it was tough to build trust remotely, Insider reported earlier this month.
However, some tech companies are sticking with flexible work.
Airbnb is now in its second year of allowing employees to work from home, calling workers in only when collaboration is needed.
“I’d rather people know that they will be in the office for five days next week working on a specific program and getting it done than three random days a week when the benefit of that random interaction is meager,” Dave Stephenson, Airbnb’s CFO, told Fortune in June.