Timeline for Moving from a regular office to a "flexible office" space, while most people work from home
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| Jan 9, 2023 at 14:05 | vote | accept | Guido Domenici | ||
| Dec 22, 2022 at 15:06 | review | Close votes | |||
| Dec 27, 2022 at 3:10 | |||||
| Dec 22, 2022 at 11:30 | answer | added | Sebastian Dahl | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/1362914904383045635 | ||
| Feb 11, 2021 at 10:48 | answer | added | Métoule | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | Jax | Why not let the employees who want/need an office outside their home choose an office space to rent and then support them w/a stipend or allow them to expense the cost (within an acceptable, pre-determined range)? It’s called “work from anywhere” or WFA instead of what you are suggesting which I think is more of a hybrid/flexible policy. | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 4:04 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | Yeah, I would at least give a regular space to the people who show up consistently. It's the people that work remotely most of the time that are in less need of a private space. | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 20:39 | answer | added | Mike Robinson | timeline score: -3 | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 17:16 | comment | added | Bogdan | The lease will end soon. Have you tried to negotiate for a better price? Given the context, with many people working from home, there may be less companies looking for office space. Maybe they can lease to you for a smaller price than to risk having the office empty with no other lease contract. It's worth a try I think... | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 14:59 | answer | added | Kilisi | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 11:13 | comment | added | Kilisi | Yeah I understand the costs, but it's usually taken as a bad sign when a business downsizes premises etc,. Perhaps unimportant in your case, but many businesses will budget everywhere else before they detract from their public facing appearance. It's the reason many professional businesses use expensive addresses when in reality they could do exactly the same work from a big shed. | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 10:13 | comment | added | Guido Domenici | OP here -- indeed, i back @Flater 's points. A lease in this part of the world (Amsterdam) runs at least 3 years and often 5, which leaves very little in the way of flexibility. | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 9:57 | comment | added | Flater | @Kilisi: Not OP, but there are significant cost differences between a leased building and renting office space flexibly. Given the shift to working from home, it's no wonder OP is considering shifting to a cheaper physical presence solution as it will be used considerably less than before the wfh shift. | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 9:24 | comment | added | Kilisi | Why don't you want to return to normal after the crisis? | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 8:58 | comment | added | iLuvLogix | While there are lots of factors to consider, you should also keep things like public representation, hq-adress, deliveries, tax-deductions, requirments for physical meetings with customers or employees in mind when making such decisions.. Obviously potential future growth and employee size as well as mgmt-structure should also be taken into consideration since your decision will affect the business in the long run. | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 8:56 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 5, 2021 at 8:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 5, 2021 at 8:26 | history | asked | Guido Domenici | CC BY-SA 4.0 |