- Its never gonna be the same again.
We're never gonna work together.
Who's gonna be working from home?
I don't think so.
And in this video, I'm gonna tell you for why.
This is James Sinclair,
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'cause I'd love to know what you think
about this quite controversial subject
that's coming up right now.
So, here's the thing, right?
Barclays Bank, the CEO of Barclays Bank,
Twitter, have said that people are not gonna be working
in big offices anymore,
that they can all work from home in companies,
And coming to think of it, yeah,
I can save a fortune by getting rid of all
of my office costs and all of my brick
and mortar costs on my overhead.
Now I think that is a very short-term approach,
because I think the profits will contract
because people won't be driving innovation forward
when they don't work together.
And that's the big thing that I've learned in my career.
I actually feed off people,
I feed off the energy of my team
and I know that they feed off the energy of me.
And that in turn, grows our business.
So people like Twitter and Barclays are saying
that they're gonna close down their big offices.
People are gonna be working from home though.
And that they're gonna save a fortune on this.
But I don't think that I'm gonna save a fortune,
because I think if you're not with people;
not managing people, not talking to people,
not communicating with people, then they lose that culture.
And it's actually culture that drives sales forward
in a business.
And that's why I've never been a big fan of outsourcing,
outsourcing podcasts, outsourcing graphic design,
outsourcing web development,
outsourcing marketing, outsourcing mystery shopping,
outsourcing systems and processes;
always being a person that likes
to have everything in-house,
because when it's in-house,
you can really definitely in the detail and improve stuff
and improve stuff faster.
And look, it's not with our firm trouble,
I wanna give you a real classic example of this.
We set that app on the Shopify website
and started it from scratch.
Because we employed a web developer in-house,
we could speed through that process.
We also got onto Amazon Prime
and got all the credit patients over the line
because we do all of that stuff in-house.
It means that we can move faster when you outsource stuff,
you don't have communication, you don't have energy,
you don't get stuff over the line to really grow a business.
And this is what I'm really worried about
where everyone's saying that we're gonna outsource.
And everyone's gonna be working from home.
You don't have to come into the office.
Energy, enthusiasm, effort is gonna go.
You'll get some quick returns on saving money on offices
and maybe people will feel happy
working from home for a while.
Then they'll realize, actually, like me, being stuck
in this house for four months that have been.
This is the last video by the way, guys,
that I'm making from home.
I'm back in the office next week.
We just had a baby girl called Darcy.
Little picture of her right here.
And that's with my partner.
We are so worried about Coronavirus,
she said, "You're such a touchy feely person,
"you hug everyone you meet,
"you shake everyone's hands.
"You're gonna bring this virus home,
"so you're not going out of the house."
And true to my word, I've stayed in the house
for four months now.
But I'm back and I'm back with a vengeance
and I'm fed up as the thunder ladies and gents
that you can hear as I record
this video in my chair in gate of our home.
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The thing is, yes that really is quite loud, thunder.
Isn't it ladies and gents?
but the thing is,
I've missed the energy of the team.
I know that if I was in the office,
I could have made hundreds of thousands,
maybe even a million pounds more in sales
and revenue if I could have been
that driving stuff.
But I've had to rely on the management
of our business to steer the ship.
And I've been doing it from FaceTime and clicks
and emails and text messages
and phone calls.
But it's just not the same.
So here's my little campaign guys,
human beings are tribal people,
they need to be around people.
If you're a business owner,
and you're thinking, maybe I don't need an office anymore.
Maybe I don't need
to be around my team anymore.
They can all work from home.
Let me give you an air of caution here.
I've really struggled for the last four months
not being around my team,
I know that I've lost money
by not being around my team,
and feeding off of their energy,
the brainstorming, the innovation,
and the driving culture.
And it really is innovation and culture
that drives the business forward.
If you're not innovating,
you're gonna start evaporating,
you lose the business.
If you're not building a culture in a business,
then you're not gonna build great team members
that really wanna drive the business forward.
And it's culture that really drives
more sales forward in a business.
Apple got a great culture,
Disney have got a great culture and those companies
that culture drives those people to wanna work together
with other people within the organization
and drive sales forward
and drives that businesses profits forward.
That's just my two pence on it.
I am not gonna be telling everyone they can work
from home full time,
yeah, if you wanna work from home a couple
of days a week because you need to get
some stuff done, crack on.
But as a rule of thumb we're staying put
my office is staying.
And I can't wait to get back with my people.
Let me know in the comments below,
what are you gonna do with your people?
Are you gonna outsource everything?
Are you not gonna be working from an office anymore?
I'd love to know you're gonna build a garden room
and just being placed in your garden
and not be around human beings.
No, no, no, not here.
No, thank you.
I'm back in the office on Monday.
I'll see you in the studio for the next video.
Bye, bye
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