Office Centricity Is Over
1 min readMay 24, 2020
This isn’t new. Network connectivity has made it easy for distributed teams to collaborate for two decades. My first remote job was in London 2003.
Covid-19 forced Zoom use so that even grandma is confident now.
Workers who need an office, probably prefer a better home office.
Earthquakes are telling us that centralised working can be risky.
Covid-19 might be almost done, but the shadow it casts will remain.
Suburbs will make a comeback worldwide.
Opportunities abound in better distributed social experiences.
Recommendations
- Invest in your teams home office with better cameras, better keyboards and better desks.
- Invest in your teams freedom and manage by objective not time clock.
- Outsource important but non-core tasks to scale.