Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Zoom is useful to maintain and extend ESTABLISHED relationships. It's no good for building new relationships, or dealing with relationship crises (ie troubleshooting). It will work for a while but not forever... eventually salesmen need to make calls, managers need to visit remote operations, and eventually workgroups will want their team-building retreats again.
For some business travels (the road warriors) travel is part of the grind. For many others, it's actually a reward to go to a convention, conference, or retreat.
I'd actually be more worried if I was in commercial real estate right now. I could see an evolving scenario where some business go mostly remote and maintain smaller office spaces for necessary in-person meetings, and simply rent facilities for all hands assembly type events. but that depends on the nature of the work and the nature of the employees. Data entry drudge-work vice complex project management? Low wage/low motivation staff vs. highly educated and credentialed professionals?
Among DoD leadership, eyes are now wide open to value of telework
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/dod-r...e-of-telework/
“We really shattered the myth that you can’t do any work at DoD via a telework situation,” Lisa Hershman, DoD’s chief management officer said.
The Pentagon’s old excuse for restricting telework was that people needed access to classified information and those people need to be on secure networks to tap into it.
“What we learned very quickly was that not everyone works with classified information, and even those that do, it’s not 100% of the time,” Hershman said. “We have started to relook at what is the mix, if we look at certain positions and the position descriptions, how much of it is feasible to do in a telework situation?”
Hershman has experts on her team examining how often people need to be in the office and talking to employees to see what their prime balance of telework and in-person work entails.
“We found in some situations, especially highly transactional work, employees were more productive,” she said. “In one instance, in Washington Headquarters Services, we had an individual that was 30% more productive. When we asked why they indicated a lot fewer interruptions and a lot fewer meetings that they have to attend. We’re learning from that and capturing that information.”
Chief of Navy Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell agreed.
“It certainly removes distractions,” he said. “Teleworking has helped us be very efficient and very productive, and I think it’s true for the entire Navy that what we look like on the tail end of this as we come out of it and how we manage and lead our workforce will be different than pre-COVID.”
If the DOD can do it, the manager of vacuum cleaner sales for MidWest USA can do it.
this is not cosmic brain surgery
it is now about production and accomplishment, not location or hours clocked in