and I were just thinking...we might be 10 to 15 percent less efficient in all of us working from home... no casual "hallway conversations" and "hey, can you do this thing I need"... now it's send a slack or email or create a trouble ticket.
OTOH, my company spent something like $1.5B on a couple of very impressive office buildings in Silicon Valley and leases another 8 or 9 buildings in our campus... all of which sit empty right now... I have saved a ton of money buying gasoline for my commute... and the time I spent driving... we didn't need to spend nearly so much on mass transit or the freeways.
So we started speculating on a "return to normal" where we have much smaller office buildings with no assigned cubes or desks... that teams go in to the office building on alternate days (1 day out of 10 work days) for team meetings and to do some things that can only be done in the office... and we continue with the current situation permanently.
Obviously this is much easier for people in our industry and for most white collar office workers than it is for the majority of other people that work factory jobs or retail... but we should promote this concept for the "new normal".
Oh, and once children return to school or day care... those Webex meetings will be much more pleasant for the "work from home crowd" than they are now.
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