One senior executive at the company has even been allowed to work remotely from New Zealand. Earlier this year, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, rolled out an uneven return-to-office plan for its more than 130,000 employees-the majority of workers must soon come back to the office three days a week, while others are permitted to keep working exclusively from home. The old guard’s members feel heightened anxiety over the white-collar empires they’ve built, including the square footage of real estate they’ve leased and the number of people they’ve hired. Some of the people loudly calling for a return to the office are not the same people who will actually be returning to the office regularly. Has your business actually suffered because of remote work?.What is your specific office’s culture?.Do you have an office? If you don’t, why not?.How many teams did you directly interface with? What teams did you spend the most time with?.Prior to March 2020, how many days a week were you personally in the office?.His criticism of remote work is that “not being able to get together in person” is bad.Įvery business leader should ask themselves a few questions before demanding that their employees return to the office: The 60-year-old Hastings is at the forefront of an existential crisis in the world of work, demanding that people return to the office despite not having an office himself. Netflix’s co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings, one of the great “disruptors” of our age, deemed remote work “ a pure negative” last fall. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, this has often been cast as a battle between the old guard and its assumed necessities and a new guard that has found a better way to get things done.

In key ways, this fight resembles the current remote-work debate in industries such as technology and finance.

Netflix held firm, saying that it stood for “everyone, everywhere releases at the same time,” and for “giving filmmakers more ways to share art.” Ultimately, Spielberg balked, and last month his company even signed a deal with Netflix, likely because he now sees the writing on the wall: Modern audiences enjoy watching movies at home. Spielberg’s fury was about not only the threat that streaming posed to the in-person viewing experience but the ways in which the streaming giant Netflix reported theatrical grosses and budgets, despite these not being the ways in which one evaluates whether a movie is good or not. In 2019, Steven Spielberg called for a ban on Oscar eligibility for streaming films, claiming that “movie theaters need to be around forever” and that audiences had to be given “the motion picture theatrical experience” for a movie to be a movie. About the author: Ed Zitron is the writer of the tech and culture newsletter Where’s Your Ed At and the CEO of the technology-public-relations firm EZPR.

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