Is it okay for you to ask for in person meetings when your company is now working remote?
You. I've been running up against this topic in many of my coaching sessions now, specifically in businesses where they got rid of their office or they've downsized their office space and now many of their people, their employees and leaders are either working from home or working from a smaller shared space
I would say not only is it okay, but it's necessary, I think. So often we lean into the technology, the logic, the rationale, the statistics, the analytics, et cetera. The bottom line, and that becomes priority when to be human is to not only have those things, but to do them hand in hand with all of the soft things of what it is to be human, right? Of communication, or intuition, or a feeling
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:50
Hey Christine, this is a great topic and I'm so glad that you brought it up because I was going to do a swell later on. Asking the question, who benefits from work from home employees? Besides work from home employees, what organization really benefits from having workers working remote outside of the business aspect of we're saving money on internet, we're saving money on office space and parking and all those things?
Jordan Tepper
@JordanTepper · 4:13
And I'm also taking into consideration like my wife, they have a central location and that office is about 25 miles from the house, so they have to go down there. She works all day, then she comes back. And they do go in occasionally for a meeting. But she was describing is the meetings are very are not really useful because everything that they do is just on the computer
Kitha Larie
@chitchatwithkk · 3:47
But now that I am one of the directors and I have my own staff, that is a problem with people. Not people say well, the incentives aren't good enough. I can work for this company and that company. But working remote has definitely put a block in the communication that we have with people. Like our communication is not as strong, people aren't as eager to do things
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:21
I don't think that remote work is going to be the permanent future. I mean, you have companies like Amazon telling their employees to come back into work three and four days a week. Employees that live within a 60 miles radius of the office have to come into work now. And I'm sure that a lot of them didn't sign up for that. When they first started working for Amazon, they thought this was a permanent remote position and then Amazon flipped the script on them
We have Gen Z and Gen Y and Millennials that are going to be ruling the world pretty soon here, so they have different ideas about what work culture should be like. So the short answer is I do think that it is okay for an employee to ask for it. I think that the discussion, by asking for it, it opens up conversation that hopefully there will be somebody who can create a safe space for that conversation. So that's my two cent. Thanks for asking the question