My work recently had to fire a mother who never came into the office. She preferred working from home, but when they gave her work she’d never done before, she really struggled because she hadn’t made the effort to come in and make friends, so then she didn’t haven’t anyone to ask for help when she was thrown a curve ball with work. And after working at home on my own for 4 years, I think that while flexibility with work is great, it doesn’t beat being apart of great working community and environment. Hopefully the future of work will have both.
Community is our primal need! And when we start working in this new world of work, that often doesn't provide that community by default - we need to make effort to cultivate that community in a way that satisfies us until we design better system for that to happen naturally!
My work recently had to fire a mother who never came into the office. She preferred working from home, but when they gave her work she’d never done before, she really struggled because she hadn’t made the effort to come in and make friends, so then she didn’t haven’t anyone to ask for help when she was thrown a curve ball with work. And after working at home on my own for 4 years, I think that while flexibility with work is great, it doesn’t beat being apart of great working community and environment. Hopefully the future of work will have both.
Community is our primal need! And when we start working in this new world of work, that often doesn't provide that community by default - we need to make effort to cultivate that community in a way that satisfies us until we design better system for that to happen naturally!