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You can also have poor work and poor working conditions in a remote environment - depends on how the team and yourself operate. A phrase I often tell friends wh
by seltzered_ 7y ago
You can also have poor work and poor working conditions in a remote environment - depends on how the team and yourself operate. A phrase I often tell friends who transition into indie work or remote work is a Merlin Mann phrase "You are your own worst manager".
Even if you want to argue this isn't true, developers still seem to end up in cities for the sake of networking.
(bias: I've been working remotely for ~7 years and had trouble justifying a move to a smaller off-corridor city)
- mnm1 7y agoSure it's not a panacea for poor work. But it does allow one much more flexibility in terms of working conditions. Having a private space is now the default. That alone is an incredible change especially for knowledge workers. Not being subjected to the noise and distractions of others is huge as is being able to set up one's own office as one wants. As far as moving to smaller cities, that's hardly related to remote work or anything but labor laws when they favor employers so heavily as they do in the US. With zero job security, of course you'll stay in or around a major metro area. That's just common sense and won't change without legislation. It's not tech specific either. But in tech, you can pretty much move to any city in the world that will allow you to work. Hardly immobile.