That aligns with my experience. I rarely scheduling a meeting longer than 30 minutes now. Ad hoc meetings are more frequent. Meetings are smaller. I think people have less desire to be in meetings all the time to âlook busyâ the way they do in the office.
Quiet quitting is a thing. People withdraw before quitting.
ân each year, approximately 6% of the employees in our data had at least one meeting during the period we focused on and left the organization at some point after those six weeks (either due to being fired or quitting). We saw that âleaversâ attended substantially fewer meetings. We observed this trend most clearly in that âleaversâ had 67% fewer one-on-one spontaneous meetings, though they also had 22% fewer scheduled one-on-one meetings and 20% fewer group meetings.â
I have observed the same pattern
The insights in this related to remote work and work styles of different generations are amazing.
Iâm getting more exposure to some of the other teams lately as we try to re-balance the org. Some can only politely be described as total dumpster fires. Iâve seriously seen people âspent more time with familyâ for less. Iâm not sure itâd be any better if they werenât remote though.
I had to give up someone on my team to go help stabilize another team that has 1/5th the responsibility and is already bigger than mine. The person clearly perceived it as a power grab that would help their career and doesnât realize the trap that it is.
I was told, âYour team has all of the A players.â It did lead to a good discussion about why my team has the A players and can cover so much more. I think some teams will see leadership changes soon if things donât dramatically improve.
Wow, Iâm amazed the CA legislature didnât pass 32-hour work week. There is some limit to their insanity.
In theory, a company could remove all the BS and get a more productive 40-hours instead of reducing to 32-hours. Thatâd be a huge competitive advantage.
For 32-hour weeks to work, weâd have to teardown the hero worship culture of long hours equal results. There would have to be clear productivity metrics and no more promoting based on hours worked and team size. Good luck with that when executive teams have built their entire careers on it.
Thing is over the long term if the trend in CA continues, businesses will move awayâŚ
You mean they will continue to move away 
Itâs already started. I think in a way covid was a wake up call. The politicians realize they need the tech workers far more than the tech workers need them.
Nothing is being done to help tech workers yet in BA/CA at least, in terms of easy transportation/commute to work, lower taxation, reducing crime, lower house prices etc and this has been a trend for a long time. Some of these can be solved with WFH, not crime or taxation though.
Was quickly looking at some numbers,
- Iâm on TOU(time of use) on PGE. Even on the lowest rate of the day, my electricity rate is 2-3x of many other states.
- The registration costs on my cars are much more than what I spend on my car maintenance yearly.
- Similar with car insurance.
- Property taxes are much higher even with Prop 13.
- Gas prices higher than Hawaii which is in the middle of the Pacific.
- State Income taxes of course highest in the nation.
- I use so less water that my water service charge is 35% higher than the cost of water(those 2 are listed separately in the water bill).
- etcâŚ
- etcâŚ
So, lot of these costs/problems are built in and canât be changed easily, letâs see how CA becomes competitive with rest of US, doesnât seem possible going forward.
Totally agree with all of this. I was surprised last year that my van annual registration fee was ~125$ which is a big fraction of what I pay for insurance!
I am no fan of government interference. But there is merit to the 32 hour week. It makes sense to have more people working and pay taxes than have some work insane hours paying high taxes to support those who donât work at all. The other benefit is people having more spare time to spend money. Definitely a benefit for vacation areas like Tahoe. Covid19 has shown that when people have more spare time they spend more money. Restaurants and Heavenly are crowded⌠even with pending recession promised by Dr Doom, aka chairman Powell
I pay $2500 for car insurance + $1000 for registration yearly for 3 cars. 2 out of those are newer cars@5 years old.
The older car of 2006 has an annual registration of @$165!
Iâm paying $83 insurance for 2020 model. Registration around $400. Just 1 car.
wow! yearly?
which insurance company?
Sorry monthly, geico. With 3 cars I think yours is good.
I am paying 1000$ per year for 2 cars. Geico. I donât drive the van as much.
Talking @car insurance, last time we tried to take the Tesla on a long trip, a 21 year old rear ended our car. The girl had a metromile equivalent kind of cheap car insurance and it took us almost 5 months to get the car fixed and her insurance to pay for the fix. It was a real pain. That insurance company has 1 star on Yelp, Iâm sure ppl will give zero if the company allowed it.