I love my commute!

I love my commute!

And it's not because it's down the stairs to my great home office. I actually love getting in my car twice a day and traveling between cities. Sometimes sitting in traffic without moving. I love it so much so that I often choose to work outside my city, even though I do have that great home office.

For me it's a deeply healthy transition between modes. It's a way to decompress, to process the days events, to file things into a mental drawer that I don't need to open after I get home. There are many other ways to do this that don't require me to burn fossil fuels, own a car, or have office space outside my home. But that's not the point. The point is that I've found something that works well for me. The actual physical relocation between cities has (at least for this season) become intrinsically linked to my mental transition between work and home modes.

And here's the thing that bugs me. While I LOVE the remote work movement, far too often I've seen it become the thing it hates: a one-size-fits-all approach, just like the unhelpfully forced always-in-office model that came before it. What's great about the future of work is not that we've lost the commute (and all of the other things we weren't given a choice about), it's that we will gain the ability to be flexible in what works best for us. I'm not advocating for a commute! I'm advocating for the ability to choose.

We need to stop celebrating the forced choices we've lost, and start celebrating the new choices we've gained!

At Crewjoy we're building a future of work that unlocks diverse teams to celebrate their differences and what makes each member unique. And uses these differences in preferences, strengths, and perspectives to collaborate much more effectively.

1. I'd love to hear about how you've strengthened connection and collaboration on your team by valuing the differences each member brings. Please share what's worked well for you!
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2. If you're struggling to find a way to do this, hit me up and I'd love to strategize with you.