do you need an office?

Do you still need an office or not? Has the COVID situation answered this question in your company?

If you have been following us for a long time, you know: for ourselves we have chosen a free schedule, and everyone in our team comes to the office whenever they want. Only the project delivery dates – presentation of the design, delivery of the finished project – are tied to tight deadlines. The procedure for performing the work and the time for completing the task depends solely on the specialist himself. The main is result.

We have a virtual office in crm Bitrix. In it, we conduct all projects, exchange information, monitor deadlines and conduct all key activities.

Why do we even have a downtown office? After all, for the company this is a significant expense item. The answer is simple: due to the incoming flow of customers. Unfortunately, in Russia there is still such a strange archaism: if the company does not have an office, this means that the customer will not be able to come to the company and “knock on the hat” responsible for the project. No treaties and other legal obligations reassure him. Examples of large companies, in which all activities are successfully conducted remotely, are also beaten. It is important for the customer to come, see the table, chair, computer and a living person behind him.

That’s why we’re holding an office. Without this strange stereotype, we would have long abandoned the typical company-office-employee bundle. For general meetings, discussions and fees, you can use coworking – in St. Petersburg they are at every step. Our company at the request of specialists provides all conditions for working at home. Monitors, tablets, computers – everything that employees lack is provided by the company.

There are many advantages of such a work system. Starting from banal comfort, ending with a reduction in the time used for waste, for example, on the road. Some employees had to spend two hours a day only to transport themselves to the office and back home. This is ten hours a week, that is, a full working day. And spending on lunches, travel, gasoline are trifles, but the devil hides in them.

We sincerely hope that the forced regime of self-isolation, remote work, rental costs for an empty office and all the consequences emanating from this will change the office paradigm and “cap-knocking” instincts in the minds of entrepreneurs.