Home office or remote work only became truly popular during the Corona pandemic. To this day, home office is controversial in some areas. The CEO of a company now says: Working from home is not a good idea for teams.
Who is speaking? Jake Wood is the CEO of the company Groundswell. Groundswell is a corporate philanthropy firm. In a post on LinkedIn, he explained that home office is not a good idea in large companies. This is mainly because very high-performing individuals enhance the productivity of their surroundings. And if they stay away, performance decreases. This is reported by Spanish colleagues from Genbeta.com.
Good team players enhance the performance of colleagues, which is not possible in a home office
What exactly does he say? According to the CEO, a person may be able to work on time and to standard in a remote environment, but it is always necessary to consider colleagues:
High performers enhance the performance of those around them. This is severely hampered when top talents (who benefit most from remote work) work from home.
This leads to much of the rest of the company working inefficiently. New employees are integrated more slowly. And he agrees with studies that state that junior staff cannot develop professionally when high performers are absent. He also notes:
If you don’t care about improving others’ performance, that’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with that. But maybe you prefer to be a freelancer who can work where and how they want rather than a full-time employee.
For this reason, he considers home office to be rather counterproductive and disadvantageous. He also adds that work is not about personal productivity or performance. It is more about being a good team player and “contributing to enhancing others’ performance. Even if a top employee would ultimately deliver more performance at home in the home office than if they were sitting in the office.
More on employees: An employee of a company regularly caused the system of their firm to crash to be able to make money. But when he took a vacation, it was discovered that he was behind the problems. He has now been convicted, but he got off lightly: Employee intentionally programmed errors into his software for years so that he always had work – Caught because he took a vacation
