RTO EFFORTS CAN BE ‘DUMB’ AND ‘UNPRODUCTIVE’ – ryan

Forcing Workers Back to the Office for Most of the Workweek is Pretty Futile If You Drew Houston.

Houston, The Ceo of Dropbox, Equated Office-First Working Arrangements to Other Relics of a Pre-Pandemic Era in An Episode of Fortune’s “Leadership Next” podcast released wednesday.

“Forcing People Back to the Office is probably gonna be like to force People back into mevie theater,” he said. “Nothing Wrong With the Movie Theater, but it is just a different World Now.”

Houston Said a return to the office doesn’t make sense when you’re doing the same work you could virtuelly.

“It is unproductive if you just sort of try to Photocopy what you’re doing in the office onto zoom,” he said. “We don’t have to do to this – can be a lot of tears dumb than forcing people back into a car three days aek or whatever, to literally be back on the Same zoom they would have ben at home.

At a time when MANY of Dropbox’s Tech Peers have mandated a return to office in some form, the company Remains optimistic that it can accompish just as Much Remotely.

DROPBOX ANNOUNCED IN 2020 IT WAS ADOPTING A “Virtual First” Approach to Work, Where Remote Work Outside of the Office Waled Be Employees’ Primary Working Arrangement. The Next Year, The Company Beging Following A 90/10 Rule in Which Employees Remotely 90% of the Year and Attend a Handful of Off-Sites in-Person During the Remaining 10% of the Year.

Houston Previously Said Remote Work Has Gioven Companies “The Keys that Unlock This Who Future of Work.”

“You Need a Different Social Contract and to Let Go of Control. But if you Trust People and Treats Like Adults, They’ll Behave Like Adults. Trust Over Surveillance,” He Told Fortune in 2023.