Do you treat your employees like adults or like school children?

Spotify introduced its distributed work policy in February 2021 as pandemic restrictions were being lifted, and to its credit, is one of the dwindling number of companies that, as its HR director said in an , maintains on the basis that “,” adding that the company trusts its employees to be productive and do their jobs, because “”.

Quite rightly, Berg believes “you can’t spend a lot of time hiring grown-ups and then treat them like children.” Spotify is confident that the decision to allow its employees to work from wherever they want has in no way affected productivity or efficiency, and is a policy very much favored by a workforce aware that it .

will . Distributed work must cease to be a privilege for a few, and instead . It makes no sense to .

Airbnb, for example, allows its workers to work and live wherever they want, with . Similarly, Dropbox CEO rightly observes that “…