American Block Redevelopment | 3 fl | U/C

[GtwoK]

Has vidyard gone mostly remote?

It appears so. He said they have 300 employees, and space for 75 people.

I understood that to be 75 in the new space — they've still got the old office across the street, AFAIK. As to whether they're remote or not, I'm not sure.

Anecdotally, most local tech companies that already had offices are following hybrid models. Many have revamped their existing space and worked out ways to support hoteling a little better, few have shut them down entirely.

A non-trivial percentage of developers do prefer working outside their homes, and in fact the majority of people who work in most tech companies stops being developers once there's some market traction. It takes a lot more people to sell, market and support software than it does to build it and in the same way that developers tend towards low extroversion, those roles tend towards high.

I know my company switched to being remote-first during the pandemic, and downsized the office space we have as a result. Before the pandemic we had the option of working remote if we chose, which was being taken away just as the pandemic started over concerns of productivity. But once we were forced to be remote, we discovered productivity was way better, and people were far happier. Our new space is maybe 40% the size of the old one (despite being a larger company than we were at the beginning of the pandemic), and apart from a few people who requested permanent desk space, is mostly drop in hot-desking.

Not as cool of a space as vidyard though!