While companies in other industries are increasingly mandating workers back to the office at least a few days every week, the tech sector’s shift is notable because it was an early champion of remote work
The now 29-year-old Calgary woman had discovered remote work was conducive to her neurodivergence and love of travel while at the Ottawa-based e-commerce company, which launched a remote work policy at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic – a policy it claimed would be permanent.
“People get healthier when they’re at home. They have better relationships with their family, they can manage child care.” In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke declared “office centricity is over” and said he’d let most of his work force remain at home on a permanent basis., then called Facebook, could have half its staff working remotely within five or 10 years.
The recent move away from purely remote jobs was “very, very quick and very dramatic,” Hicke added, attributing much of the change to a ripple effect that began with big tech.asked employees who live within 80 kilometres of its offices to be on site two days a week in August. Data captured by Meta showed engineers who either joined the company in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. Engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week, the company also concluded.
Nanoleaf asks engineering product staff to be in on Mondays and Thursdays, while sales and marketing workers visit the office on Wednesdays.
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