Amazon and Facebook first confirmed that all Seattle employees work from home, and then Facebook let Bay Area employees work from home. Including the population of Seattle, WFH has 654.38+700,000 employees. Microsoft requires nearly 54,000 employees at its headquarters in San Francisco and Seattle to work from home. Google asked more than 4,500 employees in Seattle to work from home as much as possible. Apple is even more ruthless. It is directly suggested that all the 65,438+200,000 employees in the headquarters should work from home. These technology giants have started the WFH model (5.
Even allowing permanent home office work is nothing new.
On May 12, US local time, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent an email to all employees, telling them that they can choose WFH forever if they want, even after the epidemic is over.
Dorsey also said in an email that twitter is unlikely to return to the office before September, and all face-to-face activities will be cancelled this year. Finally, the original household goods subsidy was upgraded to $65,438+0,000 cash subsidy. This time, twitter became the first large technology company to announce that it could make WFH permanent.
In fact, not only the technology industry, but also the financial industry has gradually adapted to this working mode. A few days ago, efinancialcareers issued a document saying that 50% of Goldman Sachs employees can permanently WFH in the future, mainly including jobs related to technology and data. In the future, the difference between the financial industry and the technology industry will become smaller and smaller.
When a new form of work appears, people will first see many problems, including time management, inter-departmental cooperation and work efficiency, as well as personal problems such as low sense of existence, loneliness and burnout. Working in the company, I can have dinner and drink with my boss and team members at noon, which invisibly strengthens communication and understanding, and also talks about gossip and gossip about work and the company, which are not on the table.
Another possible problem with telecommuting is that layoffs take precedence over promotions. At present, fixed positions in different places generally have requirements: generally higher-level engineers (able to work independently) and people with good evaluation records in the company. Such people often work in the company for several years and have certain interpersonal relationships and job responsibilities. If other positions with strong substitutability can be as remote as other respondents said, you can be remote and he can be remote, and the cost is king.
If some work management problems can be solved by new technologies, telecommuting as a feasible method to reduce costs, coupled with the long-term popular social environment, the normalization of telecommuting in the Internet industry is actually very close to us. As an individual, if I work in a telecommuting enterprise in the future, I must always ask myself, is this position really necessary for me?