Webafrica closing offices and going fully remote

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Webafrica closing its offices

Webafrica has switched to a remote working model and closed its Cape Town office on 30 April 2022. Its Johannesburg office will remain open until February 2023.

“The main concern in the decision is how it would affect the staff’s wellbeing and productivity, as well as how it will affect their customer experience,” Webafrica CEO Sean Nourse said.
 
Jan said:
Webafrica closing its offices

Webafrica has switched to a remote working model and closed its Cape Town office on 30 April 2022. Its Johannesburg office will remain open until February 2023.

“The main concern in the decision is how it would affect the staff’s wellbeing and productivity, as well as how it will affect their customer experience,” Webafrica CEO Sean Nourse said.
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For the better Sean, for the better.
 
Thor said:
Well done

Pitty WebAfrica has gone to the dogs in term of support, but well done on embracing remote work, that is the future.
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This is the future for sure. I already know of a few companies that have gone fully remote, as in they've cancelled or not renewed their office space leases, packed up all their stuff and everyone from the CEO down works remotely from home or wherever they want.
 
Phase one of this WFH movement is to send existing workers home. Phase two will be replacing part of the workforce with competent lower wage workers who happen have lower living costs. It'll be interesting to see what the fall out from that is longer term.

On the plus side small town living will become more of an option for many.
 
Hamster said:
Soon those hell bent on not adopting remote/hybrid models will have no employees left.
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on the contrary, many of us are doing very very well with full return to office. Productivity is also now through the roof, and resignations are 0.
 
neoprema said:
on the contrary, many of us are doing very very well with full return to office. Productivity is also now through the roof, and resignations are 0.
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Seems to depend on the nature of the work.
 
Zyzzyva said:
Phase one of this WFH movement is to send existing workers home. Phase two will be replacing part of the workforce with competent lower wage workers who happen have lower living costs. It'll be interesting to see what the fall out from that is longer term.

On the plus side small town living will become more of an option for many.
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Your salary has got nothing to do with your living costs. Employers don't know or care what their employees living costs are. Salaries are determined by your skillset and competence. If you have a skill that is rare and in high-demand you will be rewarded appropriately regardless of whether you work from home or not. In any case, companies should be paying employees who work from home more, not less, because WFH employees save their companies a lot of money.
 
deweyzeph said:
Your salary has got nothing to do with your living costs. Employers don't know or care what their employees living costs are. Salaries are determined by your skillset and competence. If you have a skill that is rare and in high-demand you will be rewarded appropriately regardless of whether you work from home or not. In any case, companies should be paying employees who work from home more, not less, because WFH employees save their companies a lot of money.
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Is WFH a skillset or a competence? :unsure:
 
Thor said:
Well done

Pitty WebAfrica has gone to the dogs in term of support, but well done on embracing remote work, that is the future.
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No. Remote work is one reason they are gone to the dogs.
 
deweyzeph said:
Your salary has got nothing to do with your living costs. Employers don't know or care what their employees living costs are. Salaries are determined by your skillset and competence. If you have a skill that is rare and in high-demand you will be rewarded appropriately regardless of whether you work from home or not. In any case, companies should be paying employees who work from home more, not less, because WFH employees save their companies a lot of money.
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The difference is now employers are going to be able to hire competent remote workers in India, Brazil, Philippines, China, etc, who will be willing to work for less. We may not quite be there yet, but it's coming.
 
neoprema said:
on the contrary, many of us are doing very very well with full return to office. Productivity is also now through the roof, and resignations are 0.
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Well aren't you lucky, our productivity has dropped, people are not happy and we've had 2 resignations.
 
Zyzzyva said:
The difference is now employers are going to be able to hire competent remote workers in India, Brazil, Philippines, China, etc, who will be willing to work for less. We may not quite be there yet, but it's coming.
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That's a common fallacy but they won't for several reasons:

1) It's a tax nightmare to have employees in a different country
2) Timezone differences make remote work in far flung places very difficult to manage in real time
3) Language and cultural differences are huge barriers that most companies won't want to deal with
 
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