{"id":435,"date":"2023-09-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.giral.do\/wp-en\/?p=435"},"modified":"2023-09-01T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:09:38","slug":"home-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.giral.do\/wp-en\/people\/home-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2008 I worked at Ita\u00fa in the IT for relationship with investment funds. I was part of a team responsible for fund performance reports, used by traders to guide their strategies. Our support was 24×7, especially during the night when these reports were generated. We discussed whether it would be possible for the engineer responsible for stand-by to work from home; our request was denied on the grounds that it was more productive to work in the bank’s infrastructure, where everything was available and where all the stand-by engineers were. 2020 came, Covid came and we know the result: we work very well in our homes. My experience and that of colleagues: we work better<\/strong> from our homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoom has grown exponentially precisely in this niche and last week we read that its CEO prefers work at the office<\/a>. Eric Yuan points to speed of innovation and interaction as motivators, between the lines I read ‘our productivity needs to increase’, yeah, productivity again is the culprit. Also between the lines, I read that on Zoom the high command doesn’t trust people except when they’re around so they can see what people is doing. Microsoft showed this in the 2022 Pulse Report<\/a>:
“The majority of employees (87%) report that they are productive at work (\u2026)” but “85% of global business decision makers say that the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that people are being productive”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I work in IT, this is the world that I know and about which I can give my opinion. Here, engineers are productive working from home and there are doubts in the C-level. McKinsey gave voice to this feeling and brought its idea 2 weeks ago: Yes, you can measure software developer productivity<\/a>. Kent Beck wrote about this in his newsletter<\/a>. Given that crisis of confidence that I mentioned, metrics are proposed to measure what I am doing. Kent is precise in his analysis, I agree: they confuse “activity” with “productivity”. Productivity is about delivering value and transforming your company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dichotomy of remote work vs. in-person work should not be the central discussion, trust and productivity are the central elements. And besides, do you want<\/strong> to go back to the office every day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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