2025-06-06t09: 09: 01Z
- The CEO of Dropbox Drew Houston says it is similar to trying to return people to shopping centers and movie theaters.
- “We can be less stupid than forcing people to return to a three -day car a week,” he said at a Podcast in Fortn.
- “It is just a different world now,” he said. Dropbox presented in 2020 a “first virtual” work policy.
Forcing workers to return to the office for most of the work week is not largely feasible if you ask Drew Houston.
Houston, CEO of Dropbox, equality in the first work arrangements for the other archeology of the pre -guardian era in an episode of “Next” in Fortune’s Podcast Wednesday.
“Forcing people to return to the office will be an attempt to force people to return to the shopping centers and cinemas. Nothing is wrong in the movie theater, but it is just a different world now.”
Houston said that returning to the office is meaningless when you do the same work that you can do almost.
“It is not productive if you are just trying to photograph what you are doing in the office to be enlarged,” he said. “We do not have to do this – we can be less stupid than forcing people to return to a three -day car per week or anything, in order to literally return to the same zoom meeting that they were at home. There is a better way to do this.”
While many of their peers in Dropbox, to somehow, the company remains optimistic that it can be equal to the same distance.
Dropbox announced in 2020 that it was adopting a “default first” approach at work, as work will be remotely outside the office, an essential work arrangement for employees. The following year, the company started in the wake of the 90/10 base in which employees operate 90 % remotely from the year and attend a handful from outside the site within 10 % of the remaining year.
Houston previously said that work gave companies “the keys that open the future of the entire work.”
“You need a different social contract and to give up control, but if you trust people and treat them like adults, they will behave like adults. Confidence in monitoring,” Fortune said in 2023.
