Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Agencies, Amazon, 'Ghost Town' Studios: How WFH is Killing Hollywood
theankler.com: When Amazon announced last month that employees will be required to return to the office five days a week starting in January, one Amazon Studios employee saw the news and quipped to a friend, “There goes my Friday golf game.”
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My parents currently are facing this same problem at their 9-5 jobs as well. They’re realizing that the work day is more productive and decisions get made more when everyone is in the office. I don’t think, like the article suggests, that it’s too late to go back to the way it was back in 2019 before COVID. However, I do see why everyone is so afraid to go back to a full time workweek schedule. Nowadays people have considered themselves even better at multitasking because working from home doesn’t necessarily mean someone is sitting at their desk at home from 9-5 everyday. My internship this past summer was all remote, I had no office to go into and I really struggled to focus on work and keep myself motivated. I can see how for some people this may be beneficial to their working style, but when it comes to television and film, where fast paced decisions are made hourly, I think it’s important that the work schedule starts to get rid of working from home, for the sake of the productions.
I'm a little shocked that some companies are still using the work-from-home system, especially well-known companies like Amazon. Before the epidemic, there was a lot of educational talk, such as we let children learn from home. But I feel that such voices have collapsed without attacking. The experience of not being able to discipline themselves makes students want to go to school in person. Similar to the film and theater industries, the effectiveness of face-to-face work cannot be replaced by online work at all. As the article says, this art form requires a high level of collaboration. You never know how much time we waste on saying "my signal is bad" and "your voice is so intermittent." So my intention is to set the preference for face-to-face work to certain inevitable situations where we need some online work. On the other hand, how these companies can eliminate complaints may be another challenging issue. We should definitely give all employees some buffer time to get back to their old ways of working.
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