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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sees no positive effects from the home office.
Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix. Ernesto S. Ruscio / Getty Images Europe
Hastings believes it is more difficult to discuss ideas when people work from home, according to the BBC.
This is the man who sent his 8,600 employees home with the message not to return to the office until they can be vaccinated with an approved coronary vaccine.
Hastings, who is the founder and CEO of Netflix, told The Wall Street Journal that he sees no silver lining in the fact that staff work from home, and that not being able to meet in real life, especially internationally, is just negative.
At the same time, Hastings predicted that most people will continue to work from home one day a week even after the pandemic is over.
Netflix is used by 200 million households around the world and has resumed production of series, documentaries and movies. Now Hastings hopes that the safe corona tests will allow Netflix to normalize its production during the fall.
Campaign to get people back to the office
In the UK, people are now being encouraged to return to the office through a campaign to assure workers that infection control measures will once again make it safe to return to work. The business community fears ghost towns and fears what will happen to commerce in cities if people do not return to work. Workers, for their part, fear being forced to return to office buildings and that business will prevail over safety for people’s health.
Equally good productivity in the home office
Research conducted at the Universities of Cardiff and Southampton, involving thousands of people between April and June, shows that productivity has been the same or better at work from home, and that nine out of ten want to continue with home offices.
The trend is confirmed in a Norwegian survey among Abelia’s 200 largest member companies. 83 percent of those surveyed respond that they experience that productivity has been as good or better when working from home. 65 percent say they will offer home office solutions to a greater extent than before, but primarily as flexible schemes where part of the work will be done at the office and part at home.
Social scientists, administrators, and working life experts have begun to analyze the lasting social changes that emerge from the crown crisis.
The way we organize our daily work is an issue that worries many. Several predict that there will be more home office use after the crown crisis.
