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So the most profitable companies of all time will zillions of intelligent workers have thus far been unable to grasp a simple and easy way to jump their profita

• bitL 7y ago
  What worked 10 years ago before their IPOs might not work now. Plenty of talented people won't even consider non-remote work these days and those are often the most driven ones that don't want to be stuck in offices/traffic all day long but have some life as well.
  • jariel 7y ago
    Not that much has changed in 10 years and FAANGs had their IPOs 20 years ago.
• JDiculous 7y ago
  You assume anything any big corporation does is the optimal way of doing things?
  • jariel 7y ago
    No, I'm saying that 'big corporations' universally do not have easy, low-hanging fruit sitting in front of them that would instantly improve productivity. If 'remote work' were some really expensive investment, then we could see that it would take some to make it's way into big corps. But it's relatively easy, and trivial to experiment with, and most companies don't do it in most cases.