Atlassian Tells Employees They Can Work From Home Forever (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/08/07/2324258/atlassian-tells-employees-they-can-work-from-home-forever
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/atlassian-tells-employees-they-can-work-from-home-indefinitely.html
> "We will seek out amazing, diverse talent unbounded by the physical footprint of our offices," the company said in an internal blog post published on Wednesday. "We will continue to compete for talent in the global hubs, and we will be able to create opportunities for those in places we would have previously not been able to reach." Atlassian's products help software developers and others keep track of code, projects, issues and other work. One of Atlassian's competitors, privately held GitLab, has never had an office despite having grown past 1,000 people.
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> Atlassian won't be closing its offices, though. All of its locations, including its headquarters in Sydney, Australia, as well as locations in San Francisco, Amsterdam, India, Japan, the Philippines and Turkey, will remain open, and the company expects to adjust them so they can be used efficiently. Employees will be welcome to return to the offices should they want to use them. Some details of Atlassian's plan have yet to be finalized. The company hasn't decided how compensation might change for employees who relocate to other regions, nor has it figured out the right number of people to work in each time zone to ensure a sufficient amount of overlap, the person said. Atlassian will measure outcomes, rather than the number of hours each person spends working, according to the blog post.
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> Sorry, Atlassian, but you really suck.
It has become the SAP of software development.
Being the leader is the market means the decision becomes "safe", and adoption accelerates despite significant issues.
Companies notice that productivity goes up (Score:3)
We've noticed it ourselves. It also makes sense when you think about it.
The cynic in me would say that it keeps the PhBs from keeping your engineers from working, and less distractions sure is one of the key reasons for it, but another one is that people don't have the need to stop working. What happens in office is that at some point you have to go because you get hungry or because you need a break, and since you can't really eat or relax in the office, what happens is that you go home and stay there. If you work from home, you don't just tack on another hours and then go home. Instead, you eat or take a break, only to feel bad for doing that at 4pm, so at 6 you sit down for "just another hour", and get back up around midnight to go to bed.
Sounds good. (Score:1)
But who's Atlassian?
Re: (Score:2)
A minor bad guy in Flash Gordon