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This is just the obvious result of everyone wanting to cluster around a city center, and slowly expanding outward. With the new advances in technology we have t
by strikelaserclaw 7y ago
This is just the obvious result of everyone wanting to cluster around a city center, and slowly expanding outward. With the new advances in technology we have today, we should start innovating new models of work for those who do not need to be in physical proximity (i.e mass remote work for those whose jobs lend to that). Most people who live close to the city (say a radius of 20-30 miles) do so only out of work obligations.
- svachalek 7y agoIt's telling that even the companies developing these technologies try to pack people as closely together as physically possible. Either there's no substitute for physical proximity, or we've failed to discover it despite the massive financial incentives.
- GauntletWizard 7y agoI'm going to say it's completely opposite. I worked for a video chat company and the company was dramatically more productive on the whole when we had a substantial remote contingent. We were forced to use our product on the regular and understood our use case. When the company moved to consolidate, productivity suffered. Why consolidate, then? Mostly for the advantage of the people whose jobs were social. I don't think it was malicious, but I also don't think it was what was best for the company.