I feel none of that. Why, when I went out yesterday for ice cream midday (was also getting my “check engine” light checked, so, legitimate reason), I looked positively normal, getting ice cream midday.
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I think there are more downsides of remote work than upsides for me, and I don’t think our new hires who were or are onboarded remotely are at the same level as our new hires were five years ago, in fact I think there’s a REALLY large gap that we don’t really talk about. But I don’t think there’s a one size fits all solution to be had, either.
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your social “muscles” start to atrophy and a little fearful of the long term health effects of that
more like they are supporting the power’s that be commercial real estate investments.
I was thinking taxes might be a deciding factor as well. Beyond this type of tax EEs working in another state, where they’d pay taxes not of the state of domicile, may be more expensive.
My company remains 99% remote and staying that way. Actually, we’re moving to a smaller place in months.
Are we talking about near 100% time in the office? It are we talking about going to the office regularly, like 2-3 times each week?
Are you talking about a case where you temporarily tried to use a team? Or where you hired some entry level employees and onboarded them same as you did for the US ones.
FWIW, my company has an actuarial team in India, a couple of whom are now my minions.
That group came to my company through an acquisition - the acquired company had the Indian team - so I’m still not entirely familiar with the story…but they’re our employees, and were fairly integrated with the acquired company.
It works well for our European and Asian business units. For those of us in North America, it’s a little tougher because of the time difference.
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We had this as well a few years back.
We sent over the modelling files when we left at 5pm to India (we had a sattelite office there).
They ran the models overnight (day time for them), and when we got in at 9am UK time we had the results available.
That seemed to work reasonable well. The process on their end was well established and they just ran the models. We did the model calibration and validation of the results.
I just hit run before I leave the office. Check in with my virtual desk top at night to see how it’s going and make adj if needed. Bang. Ready to hit the ground running in the AM
Saved the money, time, and effort to have to coordinate with an offshore team
Remote work is the best of all worlds and is here to stay at any company that isn’t run by dinosaurs who want to go back in time
I will say my team culture has taken a hit (I do miss work happy hours and open bars after FCAS lists are released) but overall my life is better without it. I don’t miss in person work nearly as much as I would miss remote working
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my minions are 100+ VBA macros that extract and sort data from myriad external workbooks and print to pdf final reports and save them in their respective folders
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