Before this, I travelled almost all of the time. We’re finding that people are really happy about the time they’ve gained back and are now using it to feed themselves rather than just to do more work. You have to build arbitrary work barriers around your day now. HOW DO WE PROTECT OURSELVES FROM OVER-WORKING? Google recently announced that they’re giving everyone one day off as a nod to the burnout that some people are experiencing working from home. In the beginning, and still to a degree, we were finding that people were absorbing that commute time into work time - ploughing through and 12 hours later they’re realising they’ve not seen the light of day. Yes, people are, in general, finding an incredible freedom just removing their commute time. How can my employers support all of those success drivers.’įROM THESE EARLY LEARNING STAGE ARE THERE REQUESTS OR SUGGESTIONS THAT ARE COMING UP REPEATEDLY FROM EMPLOYEES? And what I’m missing is this list of things… So if I find a situation when ‘we return to work’ I have a better grasp of what I’m capable of at home, I know what I’m missing in the work place.
RAPT STUDIO JOBS DRIVERS
‘Okay, I can work quite successfully at home with these kinds of drivers in place. But I think people right now are starting to find their equilibrium.
Early on it was ‘oh this is okay, we can do this it isn’t so bad’ and then it was ‘I’m going to lose my mind, I’ve not gotten up from the same place, I’ve not really seen people except through the flattening of interaction of a virtual window. The first piece of learning is to really survey staff and understand that they’re in tune with what the drivers are for success now more than ever. We’ve been working with a lot of clients on their return to work policy. WHAT ARE THE CONVERSATIONS YOU’RE HAVING WITH CLIENTS? Also, we operate our studios in such a way that each one works with each other rather than as isolated units, so we’re constantly in connection with our remote teams anyway. We work all over the globe and because we’re so used to collaborating with local consultants we’ve been working remotely for a long time and have built our infrastructure to support that. HAS THE STUDIO ADAPTED WELL TO WORKING REMOTELY?
We have about 45 people in San Francisco, 20 in our Los Angeles studio and 15 in New York. The stay at home order was introduced a few weeks later. We started allowing our team to work from home in early March if they felt at all uncomfortable. I’ve been in Sonoma, 45 minutes north of San Francisco and I must say it’s not a bad place to be sequestered.
“On the flip side… people miss being with others.” The key, as he says, is balance. “People are finding incredible freedom just removing their commute time,” he says. Along with his international clients, which include Google and Twitter, he’s identified a collective feeling of positivity for the future. Rapt Studio’s CEO and Chief Creative Officer David Galullo has been investigating the effects that working from home has had on creative businesses.