Boss of messaging platform Slack recently mentioned that businesses should rethink and revamp the way staff are continually using their time in offices. With the ascent of hybrid working, people have segregated their work between home and their respective workplaces.
However, by taking this opportunity to be at office, Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s chief executive, encourages workers to do things that cannot really be done at home. In any case, sitting at a place with headphones on is not a solution at all, he clues in. With time elapsing away, messaging platform giant, Slack’s chief executive hints, like most others, “Slack has headquarters in the US, Canada, Japan, Australia and India.”
Recently reflecting upon his offices and the way it s0 the pandemic, Mr Butterfield says: “80% of the floor space that we dedicated to kind of factory-farm, battery-chicken housing for people to use their desks all by themselves and listen to their headphones, and not talk to anyone else … was a bit of a waste.” He mentions and asserts to put a strong line in the sand about what the primary intention behind getting back together was.
He also hints that when together, people should not really sit aloof, but closely knit ro increase bonding and connections over the course of time. It is equally important to catch up with your peers, and not only when you are in need of work done.
Further he says, “It’s hard to imagine starting your career fresh out of university, and not going to the office, and not being able to meet all these people in person,” he says.
“But I think the majority of knowledge workers, over time, will settle into some sort of pattern of regular intervals of getting together.” Thus, he mentioned that workers should collectively sit down, do something that they otherwise would not have done.