By now, it should be quite clear which companies who’s work is suitable for remote work, have adopted a Remote First plan, and taken the employees from the companies that do not have, or have a bad Remote First plan.
Succeeding in setting up an hybrid remote/local situation highly depends on your definition of hybrid, so the whole thread is relevant including these two:
- [Wayback] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “The point being: If you work the other way around, and make Remote First work, if you read and follow @xahteiwi’s reasoning, then it is also really easy to make hybrid work.”
- [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “”Hybrid” for most people means n days per week “in the office”, which implies “you need to move close to the office to be able to be in the office for said n days”. What that means in terms of organizing work is largely undefined by managers, because … whatever.… “
Initiated by [Wayback/Archive.is] Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely | Hacker News and [Wayback/Archive.is] Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely | The Seattle Times
Basically hybrid you not only need to get Remote First done, but also ensure that Remote First does not give those any better or worse chance for promotion.
–jeroen