I work full-time in an office and I often wake up wondering who's in the office that day. Depending on who's there, I either decide to go to the office or work remotely. It’s a small but recurring decision that takes time and effort each day.
The problem is, there’s no easy way to check this quickly from my phone. Google Calendar doesn’t offer a built-in feature to show where my colleagues are working from today (office or remote).
So, I’m building whereworking?! — a simple tool to see at a glance who’s in the office and who’s not, allowing you to make a quick decision about whether to head in or stay home. It might just be a single feature, but it's fulfilling my personal use case.
Would love to get some feedback from you, especially those with hybrid or non-remote jobs. Wdyt about this?
I'm not sure many people are asking for a tool like this or would use it outside of existing tools like Slack and Teams status, or Microsoft Outlook (where they do support putting your work location, unlike Google apparently.)
I work hybrid (for now) and I probably wouldn't use this, and certainly wouldn't pay for it unless my employer would foot the bill.
To give a more pessimistic take, hybrid work schedules are disappearing - not just Amazon but many companies are taking away this ambiguity of work location by simply demanding people work in an office, or you find a job that's 100% remote. I don't know that there will be a ton of demand for a tool like this.
Hey HN,
I work full-time in an office and I often wake up wondering who's in the office that day. Depending on who's there, I either decide to go to the office or work remotely. It’s a small but recurring decision that takes time and effort each day.
The problem is, there’s no easy way to check this quickly from my phone. Google Calendar doesn’t offer a built-in feature to show where my colleagues are working from today (office or remote).
So, I’m building whereworking?! — a simple tool to see at a glance who’s in the office and who’s not, allowing you to make a quick decision about whether to head in or stay home. It might just be a single feature, but it's fulfilling my personal use case.
Would love to get some feedback from you, especially those with hybrid or non-remote jobs. Wdyt about this?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
I'm not sure many people are asking for a tool like this or would use it outside of existing tools like Slack and Teams status, or Microsoft Outlook (where they do support putting your work location, unlike Google apparently.)
I work hybrid (for now) and I probably wouldn't use this, and certainly wouldn't pay for it unless my employer would foot the bill.
To give a more pessimistic take, hybrid work schedules are disappearing - not just Amazon but many companies are taking away this ambiguity of work location by simply demanding people work in an office, or you find a job that's 100% remote. I don't know that there will be a ton of demand for a tool like this.
I will admit it's a crafty use of the .ing TLD.